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Podcasts, interviews, lectures, narrated articles and essays, and more. This is the Mises Institute's primary online media catalog.
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12. Gene Epstein on Commies, Krugman, and Crushing Debaters
Gene Epstein, former Barron’s economics editor and founder of the Soho Forum, joins Bob for a lively discussion covering a variety of topics. Gene explains…
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The Battle of the Ironclads, Part 3: Inventing the Monitor
Season 3, Episode 40 The Union’s response to the Confederate ironclad was an iron warship of its own. Unlike the Merrimack, the USS Monitor was a tremendous…
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56. Conflicts of Interest in Health Policy: A Different Ball of Wax?
We have become highly sensitized to the question of conflict of interest in healthcare—and rightly so. But the dominant narrative seems to be one-sided…
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Joe Salerno on Mises and Nationalism
Dr. Joe Salerno will address the annual Students for Liberty conference this week on the topic of his seminal article, "Mises on Nationalism, the Right of Self…
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11. The Economics of Immigration and a Border Wall
Bob provides an introductory framework on how to analyze the economics of immigration, as well as the politics involved in this controversial topic. The point…
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55. Waste in Healthcare: Is the Narrative Too Simplistic?
It doesn't take great insight to assert that healthcare waste is rampant. There is an obvious epidemic of testing and treatments that make no difference in…
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The Battle of the Ironclads, Part 2: Wood versus Iron
Season 3, Episode 39 On March 8, 1862, the ironclad Merrimack — renamed the CSS Virginia — was tested in battle against three of the Union’s most powerful…
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54. How to Jump Ship and Practice Medicine on Your Own Terms, with Dr. Kathleen Brown
The healthcare system continues to inflict “moral injury” on physicians, causing burnout, depression, or apathy. And, built as it is on a mountain of debt, the…
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Jeff Deist on Money in the 21st Century
Jeff Deist joins Australian podcaster Stephan Livera (twitter) for an in-depth look at money in an era of crazed monetary policy. They tackle how Austrian…
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The Battle of the Ironclads, Part 1: Building the Merrimack
Season 3, Episode 38 To combat the superior size of the United States Navy, the Confederacy believed that its best strategy was to build a technologically…
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53. Health vs. Illness: Pat Caslin on Living with Multiple Sclerosis
We spend billions of dollars a year on healthcare yet no one can give a satisfactory definition of health. Is our inability to articulate what health is…
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Daniel Lacalle on the Central Bank Tightrope
Our great friend Daniel Lacalle, author of Escape from the Central Bank Trap, joins the show to discuss the perilous condition facing central banks after a…
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Zoning and the Free Market
Much is often made of allowing "consenting adults" to exercise their freedoms unhindered by government regulation. Unfortunately, this presumption is often…
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10. This One Simple Fed Trick Earns the Bankers Billions
Bob explains what he means when he tells crowds, "Back in the fall of 2008, as the financial crisis hit, the Fed began paying backs to not make loans to their…
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52. Should Doctors Get Involved in Healthcare Policy? A Med Student’s Perspective
Doctors are embroiled in a healthcare system they appear to have no control over. It therefore seems plausible that if they got involved in healthcare policy…
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The Burnside Expedition
Season 3, Episode 37 Early in 1862, General Ambrose Burnside conquered the North Carolina coast, providing an important — but often overlooked — strategic…
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Dave Smith on Trump's Christmas Surprise in Syria and Afghanistan
The great comic Dave Smith is the proud dad of a newborn baby girl. Will she witness fewer American wars in her lifetime than a girl born in 1918? Dave and…
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9. Norman Horn on Morality and Politics, Christianity and the Troops, and How a Christian Libertarian Handles Romans 13
Norman Horn is the founder and president of the Libertarian Christian Institute. He and Bob have a provocative conversation that will enlighten both believers…
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1861 in Review
Season 3, Episode 36 In this mini-episode, Chris Calton briefly reviews the important themes and takeaways from the first year of the war. Chris Calton…
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51. The Expert vs. the Algorithm: Gary Klein on Decision-Making in Healthcare
Doctors are increasingly asked to follow decision rules, guidelines, and “evidence-based” algorithms. Is that the right approach to take care of patients? Are…
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Chapter 10. The Postwar Renaissance, Part IV: Swansong of the Old Right
Narrated by Ian Temple.
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Chapter 8. The Postwar Renaissance, Part II: Politics and Foreign Policy
Narrated by Ian Temple.
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Chapter 9. The Postwar Renaissance, Part III: Libertarians and Foreign Policy
Narrated by Ian Temple.
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Forerunners of the Austrian School: The French Liberal School
The French Liberal School had been dominant through four generations because they were privately funded, but when the government intervened in the French…
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Carmen Dorobăț: A Young Scholar on Mises's Legacy and Impact
Professor Carmen Dorobăț grew up in Romania—too young to remember Ceaușescu, but deeply aware of what socialism did to her country. Fortunately, she discovered…
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French Protestors Fume over Climate Taxes and a Rising Cost of Living
French protests over a new climate-change-inspired fuel tax highlight high costs imposed on ordinary people by climate-change policies. Original article…
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The Economics of the Public Sector
In the real world, it is impossible to separate economic analysis from an understanding of the effects of state intervention in the marketplace. Government…
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50. Thieves of Virtue: How Bioethics Stole Medicine
Did bioethics emerge to defend the interests of patients or to rationalize the needs and actions of the state and its corporate allies? Are bioethicists too…
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After #MeToo, Men Begin Avoiding Female Co-Workers
When the Americans with Disabilities Act was passed, employers hired fewer disabled workers, because they feared lawsuits. We may now be seeing a similar trend…
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8. David R. Henderson on Working in the Reagan Administration, Krugman's Inflation Memo, and Publicly Challenging the Secretary of Defense
David R. Henderson underwent a personal odyssey in his discovery of free-market economics. David tells Bob the story of his recruitment by Harold Demsetz, and…
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Building a Blockade
Season 3, Episode 35 In this episode, Chris Calton details how technological innovations changed the course of naval warfare. By taking advantage of this new…
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Keynesianism and World Inflation
Keynes believed that all economic problems could be overcome with global inflation. This would bring about a new utopian age in which only social and…
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We Need Unilateral Free Trade with Post-Brexit Britain
As the EU tries to exploit the UK in Brexit negotiations, the US should adopt total unilateral free trade with the UK. Original article: "We Need Unilateral…
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49. Why Are We Insuring Primary Care? Lee Gross on the DPC Movement
"We’re not going to ask permission to take care of our patients." It is with this epiphany, that our guest on this episode became one of the pioneers and…
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Dr. Robert Murphy on the Dubious Economics of Climate Change
Climate Change (née Global Warming) is based on three premises: the earth's atmosphere is warming; humans are responsible for that warming; and warming is…
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Chapter 1. The Political Box
Carabini explains why so many people remain trapped in a political box, holding firmly to the illusion that politics and government serve a beneficial social…
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Chapter 10. A Better Life — A Better World
Carabini concludes, and considers finding purpose in life while trying to make the world a better place. Pages 109–112 in the text. Narrated by Daniel Bennett.
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Chapter 2. Barbaric Civility
Carabini discusses the duality of standards of conduct in which people condone dastardly conduct in public (political) matters that they would never think of…
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Chapter 3. Doing Good: Nice Guys Finish First
Carabini explains the selfish nature of living organisms and the natural selection of human cooperation over force as a more adaptive behavior for surviving…
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Chapter 4. Fairness and Equality
Carabini discusses the nonsense and divisiveness of the political use of “fairness” and “equality” to disguise acts of inhumanity as moral in order to gain…
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Chapter 5. Discrimination, Beliefs, and Expressions
Carabini explains the importance of discrimination and how political laws prohibiting selective associations — as well as disassociations — are inhumane. The…
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Chapter 6. Tragedy of the Commons and Human Behavior
Carabini explains how individuals achieve results that are “better than rational” when seeking ways to manage the resources of the commons, and how government…
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Chapter 7. Obedience to Authority
Carabini discusses the degree to which the most compassionate people can become desensitized and conduct themselves in abhorrent ways when they are obedient to…
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Chapter 8. Complexity, Adaption, and Order: Visualing the Invisible Hand
Carabini explains the multifaceted, revolutionary new science of complexity theory (also called chaos theory) that shows why the political top-down ordering of…
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Chapter 9. Political Democracy
Carabini explores the inherent inhumanity of political democracy as a social scheme in which common sense and goodwill are scorned and individual predation…
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Introduction
The Introduction to Liberty, Dicta and Force by Louis E. Carabini. Pages 7–18 in the text. Narrated by Daniel Bennett.
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The Classical-Liberal Roots of Marxist Class Analysis
Recorded 15 October 1988 at the Marx and Marxism Conference. The laissez-faire liberals understood that state violence is used by government agents, employees…