Patrick Newman on Rothbard’s Power & Market
Dr. Patrick Newman joins Jeff Deist to discuss Rothbard’s groundbreaking conceptual work in private defense, private courts, and the stark realities of political incentives.
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Dworkin and the Free Market
In a free market, goods pass to those who are willing to pay the most to get them. A legal system that allows people to bid against each another for the goods they want displays equal concern for its citizens.
The Price of Tomorrow with Jeff Booth
Jeff Booth says that fast-improving technology causes prices to fall, and that we would have a more prosperous world if government would step aside and embrace deflation rather than fight it.
The Real William Graham Sumner
Sumner is wrongly accused of being a "social Darwinist." Indeed, there is considerable evidence that the entire concept of "social Darwinism" as we know it today was virtually invented decades after Sumner's death.
Why Do So Many Intellectuals Hate Free Markets?
[This article is excerpted from chapter 3 of Classical Liberalism and the Austrian School. Footnote numbering differs from the original.] Hayek on the Intellectuals and Socialism F.A. Hayek was acutely concerned with our problem, since he, too...
Why Ideas Dictate What We Think Is in Our Self-Interest
It is ideas that determine what people consider as their interests. Free men do not act in accordance with their interests. They act in accordance with what they believe furthers their interests.
The Misplaced Fear of “Monopoly”
The political entrepreneur succeeds by using the implicit violence of government to cripple his competitors and harm consumers. The market entrepreneur, on the other hand, makes his fortune by providing consumers with products they need at prices they can afford.
Man, Economy, and State: Monopoly with Dr. Walter Block
Dr. Walter Block joins the show to discuss Rothbard's breakthroughs on monopolies and cartels, and to draw downward-sloping demand diagrams for us!
The Misplaced Fear of “Monopoly”
The political entrepreneur succeeds by using the implicit violence of government to cripple his competitors and harm consumers. The market entrepreneur, on the other hand, makes his fortune by providing consumers with products they need at prices they can afford.
David Friedman on Physics, Coase, Anarcho-Capitalism, and Cancel Culture
David Friedman discusses physics versus economics with Bob Murphy.
