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Back to SearchThe Death of Greenspan and Rise of Mamdanism
Episode 48
On this episode of Power & Market, Tho, Connor and special guest Ryan Turnipseed pay tribute to the Maestro, consider whether Democratic Socialists a…
11 hours ago
Intellectual Property versus the Unrealized
The common belief is that intellectual property rights must be in place, otherwise, entrepreneurs would be reluctant to face uncertain profitability.…
16 hours ago
Democratic Socialists: One Vote, One Time?
Democratic Socialists are winning election after election and will have a number of representatives in Congress. What will happen to our society as t…
20 hours ago
Greenspan Was The Perfect Fed Chair. That Is Not a Compliment
The Fed Chair’s job isn’t to stabilize the economy. It’s to use prestige, technical jargon, and mind-numbing dullness to cover for the central bank’s…
1 day, 12 hours ago
How Greek Merchants and Philosophers Discovered Economics
Long before modern economics, the Greek philosophers were laying the groundwork for understanding human cooperation in a social setting, helping to g…
1 day, 15 hours ago
Murray N. Rothbard: Toward a “Science of Liberty”
Murray N. Rothbard was a system builder in the mode of Ludwig von Mises, Frank H. Knight, and F. A. Hayek. Social, economic, and political problems a…
1 day, 20 hours ago
From Scholasticism to Enlightenment Liberalism
The intellectual path from Ancient Greece to modernity is littered with the path of numerous philosophers, movements, and events, both peaceful and v…
2 days, 20 hours ago
The Medieval Constitution of Liberty
Episode 278
Ryan McMaken reviews a new book on the political institutions of the Middle Ages, 'The Medieval Constitution of Liberty: Political Foundations of Lib…
2 days, 20 hours ago
Lies, Damn Lies, and the History of Capitalism
Modern historians rarely have told the truth about the history of capitalism, and especially in the early days of the Industrial Revolution. It is ti…
2 days, 21 hours ago
Greenspan's Empty Talk
On the day Greenspan died, this 2001 essay by Joseph T. Salerno deserves a second life. It documented what the mainstream refused to see: that Greens…
3 days, 12 hours ago