Recent Podcast Episodes

Free trade promotes economic progress.

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 26 July 2023.

The differences between the Austrian school and the mainstream begin at the most fundamental level.

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 26 July 2023.

Moving policing outside of the realm of economic calculation contributes to many of the problems we see.

At a time when ethnic politics were tearing Europe apart, Ludwig von Mises believed that such ethnic devotion did more harm than good.

Do woke tech firms have monopoly power?

Michael talks with Gad Saad about evolutionary psychology and the market, the mind parasites, and his new book.

In the Progressive Era (1897 to 1929) the American Medical Association made an effort to restrict the supply of doctors.

Few people understand how destructive regulations are.

Government attempts to limit “monopoly power” cannot improve well-being.

Capital is the starting point of economic calculation.

Postwar Germany was occupied, in ruins, with an economy in chaos. Germans were reduced to using cigarettes supplied by American GIs as money.

Time is an irreversible flux. Each moment has a unique place in the sequence of moments of time with respect to action.

There is no clear basis in economics, ethics, efficiency, or fairness for Minimum Wage Laws.

What is a business cycle?

In 1920, Ludwig von Mises destroyed the intellectual foundations of the case for socialist central planning.

Karl-Friedrich Israel discusses modern econometrics, utility and welfare economics, and econometrics as a set of descriptive tools.

"The free market and the division of labor does not promote hyper-atomized individuals. It creates social harmony and community."

This concept of economic calculation is really the foundation of all economic theory, and price theory is the cornerstone of economic calculation.