Philosophy and Methodology
Rothbard on Agency Problems
Alexandre Padilla talks about Rothbard on Agency Problems at the 2003 Austrian Scholars Conference.
Mises’s Criticisms of Rothbard on Natural Law
David Gordon discusses Mises’s Criticisms of Rothbard on Natural Law at the 2003 Austrian Scholars Conference.
Problems in Cycle Theory
Jorg Guido Hülsmann addresses some of the Problems in Cycle Theory at the 2003 Austrian Scholars Conference.
Colonial America and the American Revolution
Albion’s Seed is a great book about the four migration folkways into the colonies from Great Britain during 1629 through 1775. The groups had many characteristics in common which may be what made future union possible, but the groups were also different. Puritans hated Quakers. Everybody hated Catholics. The competing regional cultures created quite a laissez-faire outcome between the community-based groups and more individualistic groups.
Unimagined Power: The Presidency in the History of Political Philosophy
Recorded at the Reassessing the Presidency seminar; March 2004.
The Sociology of Panics and Crashes in American History
Boom, Bust, and the Future (19:39) January 18-19, 2002