Podcast Episodes

Commercial and central banking - What I learned from Bob Murphy

My attempt at summarising Bob Murphy's great episode on banking (mainly from the Human Action podcast)

Published on 5 hours ago

Episode 172: Debating socialism versus capitalism

Some ideas on how the typical debates about capitalism versus socialism go, and what to potentially improve about them.

Published on 1 month ago

Episode 171: Why the Chicago School of economics can not conclude that central banking is bad

How the Chicago School of economics will not arrive at the conclusion that central banking may be bad

Published on 2 months ago

Episode 170: The concept of a malinvestment in the Austrian Business Cycle Theory

How malinvestments (investments that go against the time preference of consumers but are undertaken nevertheless) are caused by monetary policy and how they cause in return a transition from boom to …

Published on 6 months ago

Episode 169: Is decarbonisation an effective strategy?

Decarbonisation can (and should) be evaluated in terms of how effectively it reaches its goal, or in other words, how well it solves the problem it purports to solve.

Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago

Episode 168: Why it is irrational to not even consider looking into Austrian Economics

In the science of economics, there are different schools of thought, they all give different answers to economic problems how is prosperity caused in a society, under conditions of scarcity.

Some sch…

Published on 8 months ago

Episode 167: Monotony, politics or problem solving: 3 states of experiencing work

We can experience different "states" when working. I distinguish 3 of them here: monotony, politics and problem solving. I argue that only the latter is fun (e.g. allows the experience of Flow to ari…

Published on 10 months, 1 week ago

Episode 166: On climate: philosophy of climate science, climate science and morality

Connecting 3 things: philosophy of (climate) science, the actual climate science and the morality of it (i.e. "What should we do about it ?")

Published on 1 year ago

Episode 166: On climate: philosophy of climate change, climate science and morality

Discussing the connections between the philosophy of climate science, climate science and the moral problem of what to do (about it).

Published on 1 year ago

Episode 166: Climate change, climate science and what to do about it

In this episode, I try to cover the 2 related problems:

1) The scientific problem: how does climate/ temperature work ? What explanatory theories do we have? What can we predict/ not predict ?

2) The…

Published on 1 year, 1 month ago