Podcast Episodes

Environmental Conservation

Drawing on his forthcoming book on environmental economics from an Austrian perspective, Timothy Terrell takes apart the standard case for environmen…

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The Austrian Theory of Economic Progress

What makes a society prosper? Shawn Ritenour lays out the Austrian theory of economic progress, and its quarrel with mainstream growth theory. There …

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Race and Discrimination

Wanjiru Njoya applies praxeology to debates about race and discrimination. She starts with Mises on polylogism—the doctrine, shared by Marxists and N…

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Repugnant Markets

Alvin Roth won a Nobel Prize for designing workarounds to markets society finds morally repugnant. Sandy Klein argues the workarounds aren't needed. …

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Will You Ever Be Able to Buy a House?

Will Gen Z ever be able to buy a house? Timothy Terrell starts by clearing away the popular explanations—institutional investors buy under two percen…

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You Know How This Happens, Right?

Contemporary culture, with its fixation on careers, tends to downgrade the career of motherhood.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/you-kn…

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Tariffs vs. Free Trade

Economists have agreed on free trade for two centuries; the public and the politicians haven't caught up. Lucas Engelhardt rebuilds the case from scr…

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Price Controls

With New York reviving a citywide rent freeze, Joseph Salerno returns to the economics of price controls. Following Mises and Rothbard, he shows how …

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Competition and Monopoly

Do free markets naturally tend toward monopoly, requiring antitrust to keep them honest? Tate Fegley makes the Austrian case that the whole framework…

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The Austrian Theory of the Business Cycle

Patrick Newman lays out the Austrian theory of the business cycle—one of the school's signature contributions. He first shows how genuine savings dri…

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