Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchFrom Cold War to Forever Wars: The Economics of America’s Military Addiction
On World Affairs in Context with Lena Petrova, Ryan McMaken explains why calls for a “$1.5 trillion defense budget” are really about bigger governmen…
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Mises and Hayek Dehomogenized
Today, the term "Austrian economics" is used to designate two very different paradigms.
This essay was originally published in 1993 in the Review of A…
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History Is Not a Mathematical Calculation
Understanding history is not about understanding formulas or narratives. Instead, we must understand the people who made history, their motives, and …
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Stop Fighting Your Neighbor: The Mechanics of State Power and How to Opt Out
The modern state doesn’t get its power from the consent of the governed. Instead, it creates crises and then uses coercion to demand obedience.
Origin…
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The Giffen Good
Episode 135
Has silver become a Giffen good, the famous textbook anomaly where higher prices supposedly lead to higher demand? In this episode, Mark Thornton arg…
2 weeks, 3 days ago
Why Politicians Want Higher Home Prices
Episode 227
Ryan McMaken of the Mises Institute and Christopher Calton of the Independent Institute talk about why politicians want higher home prices. Even Trum…
2 weeks, 4 days ago
Machiavelli Is Dead: Why Politics Without Property Rights, Rules, and Moral Limits Cannot Work
Modern political economy is based upon a Machiavellian belief in might makes right. Yet, political power cannot accomplish what free markets and priv…
2 weeks, 4 days ago
The Ruthlessness and Brutality of the US Government
From time to time, the American people need to be reminded who is the boss. The boss is the US government. The citizenry are the serfs, the servants,…
2 weeks, 4 days ago
Are the Epstein Files the Chernobyl of the West?
Episode 10
On this episode of Power and Market, Ryan, Connor, and Tho discuss the fallout from the release of the Epstein Files and what it means for how the ma…
2 weeks, 5 days ago
Trump, Immigration, and ICE
Restoring the rule of law and Constitutional government on immigration—something wrecked by Trump's rule-by-decree with federal agents—is vastly more…
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