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It's Time to Track the FDA's Death Toll
Many Americans could die in the coming weeks and months thanks to the FDA’s blockade on coronavirus testing. Should we consider those victims as martyrs for…
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Markets vs. Socialism: Why South Korean Healthcare Is Outperforming Italy with COVID-19
The Italians could learn some lessons about healthcare from the South Koreans, who still maintain a robust private market in health insurance. Although the…
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The CDC's Budget Is Larger Now Than Under Obama
Many left-wing pundits and politicians are claiming that the Centers for Disease Control budget was "gutted" in recent years. But the CDC's budget is now…
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The End of Civilization?
Even if the COVOID-19 virus turns out to be more severe than the skeptics give us reason to think it is, we can get through it. We cannot survive the end of…
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The Virus and the Money Printing Press: Socioeconomic Effects of the COVID Lockdowns
Our guest is economist Ryan McMaken, senior editor at the Mises Institute. He was the economist for the Colorado Division of Housing from 2009 to 2014. He is…
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End the Shutdown
The lasting and far-reaching harms caused by this authoritarian precedent far outweigh those caused by the COVID-19 virus. The American people must decide for…
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Human Action Part Five with Ryan McMaken
Ryan McMaken, an economist and editor of Mises.org, joins the show to consider Part Five of Human Action: "Social Cooperation without a Market." This section…
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Ryan McMaken on the Fallout of the Government’s Covid-19 Response
Pete Quinones, host of the Free Man Beyond the Wall podcast, and Ryan McMaken discuss the subjects of the articles Ryan has been covering recently about the…
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This Is Not a Recession—This Is a Government-Imposed Shutdown of the Private Sector
We are about to enter a production slowdown—a collapse, really—not because some businesses miscalculated their investments, but because government intervened…
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Why Taiwan Hasn't Shut Down Its Economy
Taiwan's response to COVID-19 mostly means self-imposed quarantines and more transparency. It's basically the opposite of what Europe is doing. Narrated by…
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China, Wall Street Attack Free Markets
Tho Bishop joins David Gornoski on A Neighbor's Choice to discuss China's actions and the US government's attacks against small businesses.
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Libertarian NYC Doctor Explains the Physiology of the Coronavirus
Levi Machado is a Brazilian pathologist who trained and now works in the NYC hospital network. As a fan of libertarian writers, Levi recognizes the problems…
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Pandemic Trade-Offs, with Jeff Deist
Our guest is Jeff Deist, President of the Mises Institute. We discuss the unprecedented governmental response to COVID, the trade-offs that are unaccounted…
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1. On Time Preference, Government, and the Process of Decivilization
Chapter 1 of Democracy: The God That Failed. Narrated by Paul Strikwerda. © 2001 Taylor and Francis, published 2017 by Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor and…
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10. On Conservatism and Libertarianism
Chapter 10 of Democracy: The God That Failed. Narrated by Paul Strikwerda. © 2001 Taylor and Francis, published 2017 by Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor and…
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11. On the Errors of Classical Liberalism and the Future of Liberty
Chapter 11 of Democracy: The God That Failed. Narrated by Paul Strikwerda. © 2001 Taylor and Francis, published 2017 by Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor and…
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12. On Government and the Private Production of Defense
Chapter 12 of Democracy: The God That Failed. Narrated by Paul Strikwerda. © 2001 Taylor and Francis, published 2017 by Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor and…
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13. On the Impossibility of Limited Government and the Prospect for Revolution
Chapter 13 of Democracy: The God That Failed. Narrated by Paul Strikwerda. © 2001 Taylor and Francis, published 2017 by Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor and…
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2. On Monarchy, Democracy, and the Idea of Natural Order
Chapter 2 of Democracy: The God That Failed. Narrated by Paul Strikwerda. © 2001 Taylor and Francis, published 2017 by Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor and…
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3. On Monarchy, Democracy, Public Opinion, and Delegitimation
Chapter 3 of Democracy: The God That Failed. Narrated by Paul Strikwerda. © 2001 Taylor and Francis, published 2017 by Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor and…
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4. On Democracy, Redistribution, and the Destruction of Property
Chapter 4 of Democracy: The God That Failed. Narrated by Paul Strikwerda. © 2001 Taylor and Francis, published 2017 by Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor and…
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5. On Centralization and Secession
Chapter 5 of Democracy: The God That Failed. Narrated by Paul Strikwerda. © 2001 Taylor and Francis, published 2017 by Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor and…
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6. On Socialism and Desocialization
Chapter 6 of Democracy: The God That Failed. Narrated by Paul Strikwerda. © 2001 Taylor and Francis, published 2017 by Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor and…
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7. On Free Immigration and Forced Integration
Chapter 7 of Democracy: The God That Failed. Narrated by Paul Strikwerda. © 2001 Taylor and Francis, published 2017 by Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor and…
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8. On Free Trade and Restricted Immigration
Chapter 8 of Democracy: The God That Failed. Narrated by Paul Strikwerda. © 2001 Taylor and Francis, published 2017 by Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor and…
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9. On Cooperation, Tribe, City, and State
Chapter 9 of Democracy: The God That Failed. Narrated by Paul Strikwerda. © 2001 Taylor and Francis, published 2017 by Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor and…
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Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments from Democracy: The God That Failed. Narrated by Paul Strikwerda. © 2001 Taylor and Francis, published 2017 by Routledge, an imprint of the…
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Introduction
Introduction to Democracy: The God That Failed. Narrated by Paul Strikwerda. © 2001 Taylor and Francis, published 2017 by Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor…
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Why This Bubble Economy Keeps Going and Going
Current global bailouts may put off global busts for quite some time. But they will weaken output and employment gains. People's standard of living will…
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Nicole Saphier: Make America Healthy Again
Our guest is Dr. Nicole Saphier. She is a radiologist and a breast imaging specialist at Memorial Sloan Kettering, Monmouth, New Jersey. She appears frequently…
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Per Bylund on Regulations, COVID, and Sweden
Our guest is Per Bylund, Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship at Oklahoma State University where he holds the Records-Johnston Professorship of Free…
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Free Trade Brings More Foreign Investment into the US. That's a Good Thing.
Politicians and pundits have a blind spot when it comes to international economic transactions. They ignore a portion of trade! In particular, they ignore…
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Human Action Part Four with Dr. Mark Thornton
Professor Mark Thornton and Jeff Deist finish Part Four of Human Action with a look at Chapters 21–24 of the book—a powerful exposition of how social…
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How the CDC Prevented Fast and Accurate Testing for COVID-19
After weeks of bungling, faulty tests, and policy reversals the CDC bureaucrats managed to achieve some semblance of competence. But by then they were already…
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Understanding the Coronavirus Alarm and Practical Steps to Weather the Storm
Bob Murphy urges skeptics not to dismiss the panic over the coronavirus as merely due to anti-Trump fear-mongering. Although government coercion is not…
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Dave Smith Interviews Bob Murphy on Stimulus and Dropping the Hammer
The hilarious stand-up comic and Rothbardian Dave Smith invites Bob onto his show, Part of the Problem, to talk about the government’s response to the…
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Human Action Part Four with Dr. Joe Salerno
Dr. Joe Salerno joins the show for a dynamic look at Human Action Part Four, arguably the meatiest part of the book. Chapters 18, 19, and 20 are where Mises…
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Jeff Deist on the Government’s Response to the Coronavirus
Pete Quinones, host of the Free Man Beyond the Wall podcast invited Jeff Deist to return to the show to go over the government’s response to the coronavirus…
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Hospital Ethics in the Face of COVID-19
Our guest is Aaron Kheriaty, MD, Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, Irvine, where he is Director of the Bioethics…
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Oren Cass and the Conservative Critique of Pure Laissez-Faire
Oren Cass is the executive director of American Compass (AmericanCompass.org), a conservative think tank that stresses the importance of family and domestic…
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COVID-19: The Seattle Experience
Our guest is intensive care specialist Mark Tonelli, Professor of Medicine at the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle. He shares with us the…
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Human Action Part Four with Dr. Jeffrey Herbener
We dive into Part Four of Human Action with Professor Jeffrey Herbener, Chair of the Economics Department at Grove City College. This is a fantastic discussion…
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Daniel Jafari : Life at the Center of the COVID Storm
Anish discusses the COVID19 pandemic with Dr. Daniel Jafari, an emergency physician and surgical critical care specialist working at the North Shore University…
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Paul Offit: Striking a Balance in Our Response to COVID-19
Accad and Koka welcome Dr. Paul Offit, an expert on vaccines, immunology, and virology. He is the Maurice R. Hilleman Professor of Vaccinology, Professor of…
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Commentary on the Politics and Economics of the Coronavirus Response
Bob Murphy comments on various aspects of the response to the coronavirus. Although many libertarians are accusing the authorities of exaggerating the threat…
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Human Action Part Three with Dr. Per Bylund
We continue our series on Human Action with Professor Per Bylund of Oklahoma State University. Dr. Bylund and Jeff Deist consider Part Three of the book…
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Jeff Deist Discusses Trump's Stimulus Package
Jeff Deist joins Rick Sanchez on RT America to discuss the immense stimulus package proposed by the Trump administration to help the failing US economy.
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Larry Reed on Maintaining Hope and Speaking Truth to Power
Larry Reed has been an organizational leader for liberty for decades, first at the Mackinac Center and then at FEE. He talks with Bob Murphy about…
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Brian Williams’ Billionaire Bloomberg Blunder
Bob Murphy first gives some thoughts on the stock market crash and coronavirus, then discusses the jaw-dropping discussion between Brian Williams and a member…
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Human Action Part Two with Dr. Robert Murphy
Our friend and economist Dr. Robert Murphy joins the show for a discussion of Part Two in Human Action, "Action Within the Framework of Society." This is a…
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Special Episode: The COVID19 Pandemic
Anish Koka discusses the COVID19 pandemic with Christos Argyropoulos, Chief Nephrologist at the University of New Mexico. Dr. Argyropoulos has been warning for…
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Max Sklar Interviews Bob Murphy on Mises's Class vs. Case Probability
On his podcast The Local Maximum, software engineer (and developer at Foursquare) Max Sklar has Bob Murphy explain Ludwig von Mises's distinction between class…
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Human Action Part One with David Gordon
In the second installment of our series on Mises's Human Action, Dr. David Gordon joins the show to walk us through Part One. The beginning of the book is…
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The Political Consequences of the Welfare State
Ludwig von Mises speaks about the political consequences of the welfare state. He begins by recounting the origin and semantics of the term welfare state. He…
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Why Intelligent Design Will Be the Public Choice of the Natural Sciences
Anticipating his forthcoming interview with Winston Ewert, Bob Murphy explains why the Intelligent Design movement will be to the natural sciences what the…
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Corey DeAngelis Makes the Case for School Choice
Corey DeAngelis is the Director of School Choice at the Reason Foundation, and an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute’s Center for Educational Freedom. He…
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Language and the Inflation Debates
Ludwig von Mises discusses inflation, labor unions, and issues of the adoption of improper terminology and widespread public misinformation. Delivered at the…
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Why You Should Read Human Action in 2020
Human Action is the book you want to read, you need to read, you've thought about reading. So make 2020 the year you do read it! Over the next seven weeks the…
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Tough Questions for Libertarians
Following up on his two previous episodes firing off provocative questions for both progressives and conservatives, Bob Murphy now looks inside his own camp…
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Harry Dent on the Coming Financial Crash
Harry Dent is the founder of Dent Research, which provides economic forecasting and financial recommendations. He is the author of numerous books, including…