Recent Podcast Episodes

A private seminar for graduate students. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 21 July 2014.

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 21 July 2014.

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 21 July 2014. Includes an introduction by Joseph T. Salerno.

The opening lecture of the 2014 Mises University. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 20 July 2014.

Jeff Deist and Will Grigg discuss “police state Keynesianism,” how the once embryonic American police state became overt, how military equipment, p

Stiglitz wants to revitalize industrial policy through greater government intervention to favor certain technologies over others, writes Stewart Dompe and Adam C. Smith.

Say’s insights continue to challenge interventionist economists to this day.

Rothbard explores Bruno Leoni’s call for a return to the ancient traditions and principles of “judge-made law” as a method of limiting

The true benefits of the Louisiana and Alaska Purchases are less clear than their value to pro-government propaganda, writes David Howden and Danie

In examining newspaper editorials of the nineteenth century and Jefferson’s own views of secession, Thomas DiLorenzo explores the once-widesp

Many Austrians saw the bust coming, and thanks to Austrian economics, we also better understand the details of how booms and busts work, writes Hal

Bob Murphy on why we don't, in fact, need Nancy Pelosi for anything.

Interviewed by host Alan Butler, Mark Thornton discusses a wide variety of timely topics.

Industrious low-income people often must turn to doing business in the black market to avoid the burdensome costs of government regulations, writes

Shinzo Abe’s so-called “three arrows” of monetary stimulus, fiscal stimulus, and structural reform, have crippled the Japanese economy, writes Andy

In a free-market economy, firms threatened with competition often respond by searching for ways to increase efficiencies, attempting to lower costs

Peter Klein discusses property rights, privilege, and free markets, in light of the U.S. Supreme Court's recent Burwell v. Hobby Lobby decision.