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Back to SearchPreface to The Influence and Significance of Human Action After 75 Years
Human Action is more than a book about economics broadly construed. It is a guide to civilized social life which elucidates the laws of reality that …
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The Petrodollar Cracks, the Skyscraper Stalls, and the Commodity Firestorm
Episode 170
Mark Thornton opens this episode with a strategic assessment of the war's economic fallout: not the headlines, but the second- and third-order effect…
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Where California Went Wrong
Episode 3
Bill Anderson offers a ground-level view of California's decline, arguing that the state's deep entanglement of government with water, energy, housin…
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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…
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Unnatural Disasters: How the State Makes Wildfires Bigger and Deadlier
Episode 4
Connor O'Keeffe argues that California's wildfire crisis is not simply a climate story but a government failure story. The state has monopolized near…
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The Great Gerrymander War
Episode 43
On this episode of Power & Market, Ryan, Tho, and Connor discuss the escalating battle over Congressional districts. As Republicans and Democrats eng…
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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…
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How Democratic Socialism Created California’s Housing Crisis
Episode 2
Chris Calton links California's housing crisis to three books published in the 1960s that spawned three ideological movements — the democratization o…
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What Happened to the University of California?
Episode 1
Peter Klein traces the ideological transformation of the UC system from a world-class research institution to a cautionary tale of government-subsidi…
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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…
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