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Pelosi's "Mandate": What "Consent of the Governed" Really Means
What does "the consent of the governed" mean? In 2020, 53 percent of US residents either voted for someone other than Trump or Biden, or didn’t vote at all. It…
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Rich Millennials Plot the End of Civilization
Millennial Sam Jacobs went off to college a wealthy but normal young man and came back a socialist. Suddenly his family’s “extreme, plutocratic wealth” became…
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The American Revolution Was a Culture War
The Boston Tea Party was an opening act in what came to be a violent culture war and war of national liberation. And it helps us understand how America in 2020…
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Bob Murphy Dissects the “Shopping Cart Theory” Allegedly Blowing Up the Case for Self-Governance
Recently Tim Poole alluded to the so-called “shopping cart theory” of why self-governance is impossible. Specifically, because people can’t even bother to take…
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New Perspectives on the Evils of War
MacMillan's book provides many insights into the true vileness of war, although she strays into some dangerous areas when she accepts the faulty economic…
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Red and Blue States: It's Time for a Multistate Solution
Joe Biden says: "I will work as hard for those who didn't vote for me as those who did." Does anyone actually believe that? Original Article: "Red and Blue…
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Ebenezer Scrooge: Hero or Villain?
Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop debate whether Ebenezer Scrooge's words and actions teach us important economic truths, or if he's just an ignorant crank. Radio…
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Mario Rizzo on His History with the Austrian School and the Economics of Time & Ignorance
Mario Rizzo is a professor in the Department of Economics at NYU–where he was Bob’s dissertation chair. He talks about how he found the Austrian School and his…
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The Managerial Revolution
Managerialism, not socialism or capitalism, dominated the West in the latter half of the 20th century. Nobody explained this better than James Burnham in his…
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Why the Marketplace Is Not a Zero-Sum Game
Market progress through entrepreneurship and innovation means increased production. In a world of scarcity, that benefits all of us in society. That makes it a…
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Feudalism and Cronyism in Machiavelli’s Italy
Machiavelli asserts that civil society can best flourish in the absence of government intrusion. Original Article: "Feudalism and Cronyism in Machiavelli’s…
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Jeff Deist on the Covid Stimulus Bill
Jeff Deist calls in to A Neighbor's Choice to comment of the covid stimulus bill, the possibility of inflation, and the positive things we can look forward to…
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We’ll Know Trump Is a Fraud on Free Speech If He Doesn’t Pardon Assange
If he takes free speech seriously at all, Trump will pardon Julian Assange. Original Article: "We’ll Know Trump Is a Fraud on Free Speech If He Doesn’t Pardon…
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Big Tech and the Sovereign Consumer
Both the Senate hearings on “Big Tech” companies and the Department of Justice (DOJ) lawsuit against Google amplify popular misunderstandings of what drives…
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Markets Aren't about "Using" People. Markets Help People Attain Their Goals.
Claims that market arrangements involve the unethical “using” of others are of lengthy pedigree. But they are also of questionable merit. Original Article…
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Quantitative Methods in Economics Can Describe—but Not Explain—Events
Human action cannot be analyzed in the same way that one would analyze objects. These quantitative methods do not improve our knowledge of the driving causes…
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The Marginal Revolutionaries
Professor Janek Wasserman's book The Marginal Revolutionaries: How Austrian Economists Fought the War of Ideas, is an entertaining and fascinating account of…
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Marxists Dominate the Field of Literary Criticism. That's a Problem.
Matt Spivey continues the pioneering work of Paul Cantor and Stephen Cox in bringing sound economics to the analysis of literature. Original Article: "Marxists…
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The Federal Reserve: What To Expect in 2021
Expect more of the same in 2021. The Fed has no real plan. It is just lurching from one crisis to the next, hoping more easy money will buy some time. It's…
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The Weirdest, Most Distorted Economy Ever
The Fed is not allowing the economy to heal, but instead induces more distortions and weirdness. The explosion in orders for new trucks is perhaps just the…
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Trump’s NDAA Veto Threat Should Force a Conversation on Defense Spending
A dirty secret of congressional military spending is that when the government allocates billions in spending, unnecessary, wasteful, and parochial interests…
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Colonialism Doesn't Explain the Developing World's Problems
It is popular to assume that colonialism explains most modern-day dynamics in the developing world. But what if precolonial institutions are the real deciding…
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Central Banks Put Wind at Bitcoin's Back
The central banks can be thanked for all bubbles, including those in cryptocurrencies. Original Article: "Central Banks Put Wind at Bitcoin's Back". This…
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No Privacy, No Property: The World in 2030 According to the WEF
The World Economic Forum and its related institutions in combination with a handful of governments and a few high-tech companies want to lead the world into a…
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Greece Is Setting Itself Up for Another Financial Crisis
The center-right government that came into power in July of 2019 has failed to liberalize the economy and make market-oriented reforms, with the pandemic…
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Jeff Deist on Covid Bucks
Jeff Deist and David Gornoski comment on covid bailouts; Joe Biden’s sky-high promises; the World Economic Forum’s plan to eliminate private property; vaccine…
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When Money Dies
Ryan McMaken joins the show to discuss Adam Fergusson's seminal history of Weimar-era hyperinflation in Germany, When Money Dies. Americans accustomed to the…
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Why Beltway Conservatives Hate the Trump Populists
In 2016, establishment conservatives went "all in" on defeating Trump. But they lost, and as a result lost control of the conservative movement and the GOP…
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A Nation of Ratfinks
Do your neighbors do things that annoy you? Just give the government a call. They're ready and willing to assist with any effort that increases their power and…
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Schools Are at the Core of the Left's Hegemony
One of the silver linings to this year’s lockdowns and cultural revolution, as many commentators here and elsewhere have pointed out, is that many parents are…
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Slavery: The "Broken Window" of American Economic History
The "New Historians" can identify the ostensible economic prowess of slavery, but they have ignored the many unseen costs imposed by slave economies. Original…
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Why the Electoral College Matters
We begin to understand the electoral college when we admit the United States is really supposed to be a collection of member states, and not a single unified…
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"The E Stands for Excellence": A Tribute to Walter E. Williams
Williams’s impressive ability to speak on wide-ranging issues with unusual clarity derived from his steadfast commitment to the “economic way of thinking.”…
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Climate Change Policy Isn't Worth Its High Cost
In most economies, inventories are valued at market prices, while in China they are valued by the authorities and adjusted later. This is just one of many ways…
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Gad Saad on Mind Viruses, and the Evolutionary Explanation for SJWs
Gad Saad is Professor of Marketing and holds the Concordia University Research Chair in Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences and Darwinian Consumption. He talks…
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Joe Biden Wants a Huge New Tax on Gun Owners
Biden has proposed a new $200 tax on rifles and magazines, with a $10,000 fine for noncompliance. Registration involves filling out a thirteen-page form, with…
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The Education of the Modern Socialist
Libertarians often wonder why socialism continues to be so popular, even though it has proved to be such a failure as a political ideology and as an economic…
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There Is No Chinese Economic Miracle
In most economies, inventories are valued at market prices, while in China they are valued by the authorities and adjusted later. This is just one of many ways…
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Stephen Senn: N-of-1 Trials and Beyond
Our guest is Professor Stephen Senn, a world renowned statistician whose career has spanned the gamut of activities that involves statistical analysis in…
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Biden’s Covid "Supply Commander" Is Bad Medicine
Joe Biden thinks a centrally planned supply chain for healthcare supplies is necessary, because "We can no longer leave this to the private sector." There are…
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Explaining Kenneth Arrow's Impossibility Theorem for Social Choice
First Bob explains his contest involving Adventures in Pacifism–winner gets 100 smackers. Then he explains the incredibly powerful, and surprisingly Austrian…
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Lockdowns Haven't Brought down Covid Mortality. But They Have Killed Millions of Jobs.
Strict lockdowns have devastated millions of families' incomes while failing to bring success in suppressing covid mortality. Original Article: "Lockdowns…
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Taxation and Forced Labor
Not only is taxation theft, but by taking away part of the money you earn, the government is forcing you to work for it. Original Article: "Taxation and Forced…
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Why Government Stimulus Sometimes Looks like It Revives the Economy
Even when an economic bust appears, there may still be enough real savings in the economy to quickly put the economy back on track. This is what brings…
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Dan McCarthy Trusts the People More Than the Elites
Dan McCarthy, Editor at Large of The American Conservative, joins Bob to discuss his view that conservatives and libertarians should stop heaping contempt on…
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Jeff Deist on Election Fraud and Shutdown Lunacy
Jeff Deist returns to the show to comment on allegations of voter fraud; the future of politics in a post-Trump America; the death of the old GOP; the push for…
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What Chile’s Vote to Change Its Constitution Means for Its Future
In recent decades, Chile set itself apart from the rest of Latin America with successful market reforms and a stable political system. Average Chileans…
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Why GOP Loyalists and Candidates Keep Moving Left
Unless the Left's opponents focus on changing voters' ideological drift to the left, candidates who want to actually win elections will have to keep moving…
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Why Marx Never Figured Out How to Distribute Goods in a Socialist Society
Contra Marx, Mises understood that human desires and needs are not determined merely by biology. Original Article: "Why Marx Never Figured Out How to…
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Per Bylund on The Seen, the Unseen, and the Unrealized
Professor Per Bylund of Oklahoma State University is the author of The Seen, The Unseen, and the Unrealized. 2020 is the year social scientists failed to show…
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The Myth of America as a "Reluctant Superpower"
In this outstanding study, Stephen Wertheim shows that both views that dominate American foreign policy are wrong. In doing so, he vindicates for our time the…
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The Rise of Mega–Gambling Facilities: A New Skyscraper Curse?
Circa casino’s new three-story, 78 million–pixel, high-definition screen in its sportsbook gambling compound may represent a new frontier in mega–building…
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Privacy, Power, Fiscal Policy, the Poor: Four Reasons to Worry about CBDCs
Central bank digital currencies need to be centralized and manipulable to some extent in order to use them to implement monetary policy, which is central…
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The Future of Trump's Populism
The GOP is at its worst when it's run by the old Bush-Romney-Cheney faction that was in power before Trump. Will "Trumpism" endure, or will the party go back…
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Why Governments Hate Decentralization and "Local Control"
Decentralized societies that value local customs, institutions, and governments are obstacles to the expansion of the regime's power. Not surprisingly, central…
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China's New Five-Year Plan Exposes the Wishful Thinking behind Socialist Regimes
The trouble with China’s new five-year plan is that it attempts to solve problems while leaving their underlying structural causes unaddressed. In this it is…
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Modern Monetary Collectivism
No, “societal” value is not what you want or think is good, and “we” are not a homogenous entity of observable, aggregated preferences. Original Article…
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Why Commies Hate Your Thanksgiving Dinner
In 1923 Lenin released a propaganda pamphlet titled Down with the Private Kitchen. It explained how private dinners with one's family are reactionary…
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Another Pointless Antitrust Campaign by Federal Regulators
The feds claim the chicken industry is trying to exploit the consumer. Yet several decades ago, chicken was more expensive than beef, but thanks to industry…
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Covid Is Just the Latest Excuse for Canada’s Politicians to Violate the Constitution
If the word “free” is to have any meaning, it should mean something more than whatever freedom remains after the government has finished restricting it…