Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchToday’s AIs Show the Marginal Revolution's Unfinished Business
In 1871, the “discovery” of marginal economic analysis soon took a wrong turn, moving towards quantification, data, and mathematics. It is time to “r…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Socialists Are Reaping a Bountiful Political Harvest while They Create Havoc
As the economy faulters, socialists are getting elected, promising free goods and services and an end to the chaos. Even when they make things worse,…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
The Cost of Money: Coinage, Fiat Power, and the Quiet Corruption of Value
Governments take valuable things like paper and minerals, stamp something on them, and call them money, in the process rendering these things almost …
3 months, 3 weeks ago
The Economics of War
In this article from 1950, Murray Rothbard suggests some of the less bad ways of financing military operations. Hint: monetary inflation and taxing s…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Marx Was Wrong About the “Necessary” Ruin of Small Landed Property
Karl Marx not only misunderstood value and production, but he also was wrong about large-scale and small-scale property owners.
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3 months, 3 weeks ago
On The Duty Of Natural Outlaws To Shut Up
Who would join a radical minority movement, and commit him- or herself for life to social obloquy and a marginal existence, for the sake of 20% more …
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Depopulation Won’t Save Us or the Planet
The recent death of Paul Ehrlich reminds us that his crackpot overpopulation theories still are with us, even as they are being regularly discredited…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Hobbes’s State: “Why Are You Hitting Yourself?”
To complain against the state’s actions, argues Hobbes, is to ultimately complain against yourself because you originally authorized the state throug…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
How to Change the World: Entrepreneurship versus Politics
Entrepreneurship is a voluntary undertaking that causes change by providing value. No force, no threats, and no coercion are involved. It is market a…
4 months ago
Where California Went Wrong
California has been seen as the nation’s “Promised Land” for many years, but in the past 25 years, people have left due to high housing costs and hig…
4 months ago