Recent Podcast Episodes

Explains the contributions of Mises and Rothbard to the development of modern economic thought.

The truth is that capitalism has poured a horn of plenty upon the masses of wage earners, who frequently did all they could to sabotage the adoptio

What is the corporate form of organization, where did it come from, how does it work, and do corporations take advantage of consumers, investors, a

Shows how Austrian economics is basis of Skyscraper Index, which has correctly predicted most economic and housing crises of 20th century.

Contrasts Chicago school’s focus on “macroeconomic variations of substantial size and frequency” with Austrian school’s focus on “market forces hid

Problems of international development aid and the domestic welfare state. Recorded at Mises University 2010.

Implications of economizing time and time preference in human action; the nature of uncertainty and the role of uncertainty and risk in human actio

Looks at causes of the 1929 crash and ensuing depression, with lessons for today. Recorded at Mises University 2010.

Advanced lecture on monetary mechanisms in a growing economy, stressing the central role of debt, and discussing alternative ways to deal with infl

When Jean-Baptiste Colbert died on September 6, 1683, there was celebration throughout France.

Critical examination of the claim that justification for taxation is that there is a market failure regarding public goods and externalities.

Responds to criticism of Austrian business cycle theory and “Puritan” policy recommendations. Recorded at Mises University 2010.

Graphical demonstration that relaxing three critical-but-implausible assumptions underlying Keynes’s theorizing allows the Keynesian framework to m

Covers the problems of government intervention into pollution and natural resource use issues, emphasizing importance of private property and indiv

Why value-subjectivism in economics doesn’t imply value-subjectivism in ethics, and might even imply the reverse.

Recorded at Mises University 2010. Includes an introduction by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. 

Recorded at Mises University 2010.

Advanced lecture on the theory of pure interest, discussing its pros and cons as compared to other theories, and its relationship with capital theo

Why government is inherently wealth-destroying, compared to free-market entrepreneurship, the source of wealth creaton.

Austrian critique of mainstream analysis of monopoly, monopsony, and perfect competition; the logical contradictions of anti-trust law.