Recent Podcast Episodes

Interviewed by host Coy Barefoot, Mark Thornton talks about the NSA spying on Americans, and more.

What did the diamond and water paradox have to do with an important Austrian tenet that reversed economic thinking?

Some responses to questions included: Trends in economics are dangerously negative. Keynesians are more unrealistic than ever. Mises says you only have two choices in coordinating resources: socialism or capitalism. Prohibition of drugs leads to violence and death.

How can The Art of War help you think like an economist? Because resources are scarce we have to put the goods we do have to the best use. Sun Tzu understood that war is destruction and resources must be preserved. The only good war is one won without fighting.

Beggar thy neighbor policies are now called Quantitative Easing. Just like regular protectionism this currency war approach will lead to real wars.

Interviewed by host Mike Stein of KWAM 990 AM, Mark Thornton talks about Edward Snowden, PRISM, unchecked government powers, and more.

Interviewed by host Michael Dukes on KFAR 660 AM, Mark Thornton talks about the U.S. Dollar.

Interviewed by hosts Steve Gruber and Jo Anne Paul, Mark Thornton talks about the intrusive nature of the state.

Interviewed by host Barb Adams, Mark Thornton talks about ‘The Great Gatsby’, the economics of prohibition, gun control, and more.

Presented to Mr. Henry Getz. Includes remarks by Peter Klein and Lew Rockwell. Recorded at the Mises Institute on 5 June 2013.

Interviewed by Ken Morgan and Julie Dougherty on MoneyRadio 1510’s “Business for Breakfast,” 21 May 2013.

The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America

Stockman makes clear that the facile left-right distinction of US politics obscures a deeper crisis of capitalism that spans the breadth of the American economic and political landscape

All services that government provides can be privately provided goods and services. All voluntary arrangements are better than coercive ones.  Anarchy is simply no rulers, but not no rules.

Taxes are not just wrong, they are destructive. It is highly questionable that private parties could not create goods and services that consumers want at higher quality and lower costs.

The parasite - the state - has to have a host. First there had to be production before there could be something to tax or steal. Kings waged dynastic wars requiring high taxation. Revolutions and secession resulted.

The myth of the fair tax is the myth of the just tax. Taxation is a coerced, not voluntary, exchange. It is false to say bureaucrats pay taxes. They consume taxes. They plunder. They are the tax eaters. The rest of us are tax payers.

From the session on “Austrian Theory and Method,” presented at the Austrian Economics Research Conference.

From the session on “Austrian Theory and Method,” presented at the Austrian Economics Research Conference.

From the session on “Secession: A Mainstay of Freedom,” presented at the Austrian Economics Research Conference.

From the session on “Macroeconomics: Theory, Policy, and Pedagogy,” presented at the Austrian Economics Research Conference.