Finally, on episode 400, Tom -- joined by guest Michael Malice -- discusses Ayn Rand: her philosophy, the good and the bad about Rand and her ideas, Objectivism and libertarianism, and more.
Here's the speech I gave at Ron Paul's Rally for the Republic in 2008. He held this event down the street from the Republican Convention, which was in the process that week of nominating John McCain. One of the most thrilling moments of my life.
Scott Horton joins Tom to look at the ongoing controversy over the Iran nuclear agreement. Plus, Tom and Scott discuss the strategy that makes the most sense for Rand Paul.
Today is the official launch of the Empire of Lies: The Ron Paul Documentary project. Ron Paul hasn't approved or collaborated with any such story of his life -- until now.
If there's an economic phenomenon that terrifies all of official opinion, and even some free-market economists, it's deflation. Our guest, the author of a brand new book on the subject, strongly disagrees. Listen in!
For fifteen solid years we've had one form of stimulus or another, and the results do not impress. For the true believer, this means we need more stimulus. For the rest of us, it's time to try something else.
How bad is American education? Worse than you think. Alex Newman walks us through the crazy math, the crazy reading strategies, the behavioral drugs, and the historical origins of it all.
Carbon taxes are a free-market way of dealing with climate change and averting disaster, says a prominent policy analyst. Economist Bob Murphy doesn't let him get away with it.
Few topics are more foundational to libertarianism than rights. What are rights? How can we derive them? And do they extend beyond human beings? We explore these and other questions in today's episode.
Terms like fascist and fascism get thrown around indiscriminately by people who know how toxic they are and who want to demonize their opponents. But almost nothing and no one accused of fascism these days has the slightest connection to genuine fascism, and the result is confusion. What was fascism really all about? Paul Gottfried joins us for a lesson in intellectual history.
We hear a lot of talk about "equality of opportunity." But is there or could there be such a thing? This apparently benign idea, if taken seriously, would yield innumerable horrors, argues George Reisman in today's episode.
Hal Elrod's story will stun you -- in a terrible car accident at age 20, he was dead for six minutes, and when he did revive, he was told he'd never walk again. He went on to run a 52-mile ultra-marathon. And he developed the Miracle Morning, a morning action plan that has changed countless lives. Have a listen!
The conventional wisdom on presidential war powers is dangerously mistaken. Today I talk to one of the country's foremost experts, to set the record straight.
As the Brazilian economy has cooled off and public discontent is mounting, recent economic policy in Brazil is coming under increasing scrutiny. In today's episode we get to the bottom of what's really going on -- plus the "less Marx, more Mises" protests!
PressTV is a 24-hour English-language news network in Iran. It is state-owned, but independent of the state in its management. PressTV's Susan Modaress has interviewed me twice; this was the first time.
What a delight to be joined by John Tamny on the launch day of his excellent new book! We hit lots of hot-button topics, and you'll enjoy John's compelling, informed, and entertaining answers.
Discussions of spreading democracy in the Middle East always come back to Germany and Japan — if it can be done there, the argument goes, it can be done anywhere. Christopher Coyne discusses the flaws in this argument.
It still amazes me that an anti-Fed book spent two and a half months as a national bestseller. And I spent that time explaining the Fed to all kinds of new audiences as a result. I hope you enjoy my story about it all!
We could all stand to be more productive, but we need specifics, not the platitudes we find in the typical productivity and self-improvement literature. That's where the great Ari Meisel comes in.
Tom discusses a variety of issues: environmentalism and American Indians, the allegedly laissez-faire Herbert Hoover, and the true nature of Social Security.
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Ep. 361: Against Market Monetarism and NGDP Targeting (Joe Salerno) Ep. 206: Austrian Potpourri (Joe Salerno)
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Alex Tabarrok holds the Bartley J. Madden Chair in Economics at the Mercatus Center and is a professor of economics at George Mason University.
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“Lessons from Gurgaon, India’s Private City” by Shruti Rajagopalan and Alexander Tabarrok, in Cities and Private Planning: Property Rights, Entrepreneurship and Transaction Costs, eds. David Emanuel Andersson and Stefano Moroni
Ep. 363 It’s Happening: Seasteading — Liberty Through Floating Cities (Joe Quirk)
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War has all the features we associate with a government program: propaganda, lies, central planning, power grabs, cronyism, centralization, taxes, debt, erosion of liberty, and unintended consequences. Check out today’s episode for the full case.
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Whether his colleagues like it or not, Paul Krugman is the public face of the Keynesian establishment. Replying to Krugman, therefore, involves more than criticizing just one person. Today Bob Murphy takes apart Krugman’s most recent New York Times column, in which he tries to defend Keynesianism against critics.
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Robert P. Murphy holds a Ph.D. in economics from New York University. He is the author of numerous books (see below), including study guides to Ludwig von Mises’ Human Action (study guide here) and The Theory of Money and Credit(study guide here), and Murray Rothbard’s Man, Economy, and State(study guide here).
Ep. 361: Against Market Monetarism and NGDP Targeting (Joseph Salerno)
Related Episodes
Ep. 291: Japan: Failed Keynesian Experiment (Robert Murphy) Ep. 118: Boom and Bust: The Cause (David Howden) Ep. 24: Keynes and His Errors (G.P. Manish)
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Mark Thornton, a senior fellow of the Mises Institute, is book review editor of the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics and teaches economics at Auburn University.
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Stephen Halbrook is a lawyer known for his involvement in Second Amendment and gun control litigation, and is the author of numerous books on these subjects.
Sean Gabb is director of the Libertarian Alliance, based in the U.K. He is the author of many books, including six historical novels under the name Richard Blake. He holds a Ph.D. in political and intellectual history from the University of Middlesex, and currently resides in Kent.
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James R. Otteson is executive director of the BB&T Center for the Study of Capitalism, and Teaching Professor of Political Economy, at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He is also a Senior Scholar at the Fund for American Studies in Washington, DC, a Research Professor in the Freedom Center and Department of Philosophy at the University of Arizona, and a Research Fellow at the Independent Institute in California.
Professor Otteson was recently named the Thomas W. Smith Presidential Chair in Business Ethics at Wake Forest University School of Business.
Ep. 337: The Fatal Errors of Socialism (James Otteson) Ep. 325: Are Corporations Un-Libertarian? (Stephan Kinsella) Ep. 119: The Environment and the Market (Walter Block)
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Ep. 118: Boom and Bust: The Cause (David Howden) Ep. 24: Keynes and His Errors (G.P. Manish)
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Ep. 179: The Late Scholastics: Christians for Freedom (Alejandro Chafuen) Ep. 54: Pope Francis on Capitalism
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Ep. 273: The Case Against Antitrust (Tom DiLorenzo) Ep. 248: One Year of the Tom Woods Show! Tom Takes on More Myths Ep. 237: Why Are We So Rich? (Deirdre McCloskey) Ep. 232: The Robber Barons and Monopoly Ep. 97: New Deal or Raw Deal? (Burton Folsom)
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Are we making progress, holding steady, or retrogressing? Frank Karsten returns to make the case for libertarian optimism!
About the Guest
Frank Karsten is chairman of Mises Instituut Nederland and of the Stichting Meer Vrijheid (More Freedom Foundation), a Dutch libertarian organization which acts to reduce taxes and government intervention.
Ep. 156: Against the Catastrophists (Robert Bryce)
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Murray Rothbard was so productive that new books of his continued to appear even after his death. I had the privilege of writing the introduction to one of them, and I discuss it in today’s episode.
Ep. 242: Murray Rothbard: His Life and Work (Lew Rockwell) Ep. 41: How Murray Rothbard Changed My Mind on War
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Click here to read Ron Paul’s foreword to Meltdown.
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Ep. 271: The Truth About the Crash of ’08 Ep. 118: Boom and Bust: The Cause (David Howden)
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Here’s a basic overview of the economic and moral imperatives behind the free market. I think it’s pretty convincing, but then since I’m the speaker, I suppose I would. (No YouTube versions of the episodes from yesterday through Monday, since it would be redundant to create them.)
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As a former neoconservative myself, I know how easy it is to get swept away by war propaganda. Here's my effort to convey this point, in a speech in Los Angeles, to some of the conservatives in the audience. Scroll down for show notes and mp3!
Here’s a speech in which the audience was not completely on my side on foreign policy. I wondered if I should bring it up. I then rebuked myself for even asking the question, and went on ahead. Enjoy!
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Ep. 253: Chicago vs. Austria, Bitcoin and More (Robert Murphy) Ep. 101: Bad News for Bitcoin? (Erik Voorhees) Ep. 57: Bitcoin: Objections and Replies (Erik Voorhees) Ep. 15: The Future of Bitcoin (Erik Voorhees)
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James R. Otteson is executive director of the BB&T Center for the Study of Capitalism, and Teaching Professor of Political Economy, at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He is also a Senior Scholar at the Fund for American Studies in Washington, DC, a Research Professor in the Freedom Center and Department of Philosophy at the University of Arizona, and a Research Fellow at the Independent Institute in California.
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Professor Gerard Casey takes us on a whirlwind tour of political thought, including both the bad guys and the good guys, from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries.
Topics Discussed
Jean Bodin, Thomas Hobbes, and the notion of sovereignty
Johannes Althusius: the crucial thinker no one has heard of
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I wasn’t always a libertarian. I began as a moderate Republican. I eventually became vice president of the Harvard College Republicans. But something pulled me away from conventional opinion and toward the persuasive and compelling heterodoxy of Austro-libertarianism. Here’s my story. Hope you enjoy it!
So many of the alleged merits of democracy are simply asserted or assumed. But there are very serious problems with democracy, and the always interesting Frank Karsten joins me today to hash some of them out. This one is a must-listen.
About the Guest
Frank Karsten is chairman of Mises Instituut Nederland and of the Stichting Meer Vrijheid (More Freedom Foundation), a Dutch libertarian organization which acts to reduce taxes and government intervention.
Ep. 326: What I Told the Washington Post About Secession
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Toby Baxendale is an entrepreneur who built up, among other things, the UK’slargest fresh fish supplier to the Food Service sector, a business he recently sold. He established and funded the first Distinguished Hayek Visiting Teaching Fellowship Program at the London School of Economics in honor of the Nobel Laureate F.A. Hayek. He is co-founder and chairman the Cobden Centre.
Thom Hartmann’s fans have been sending around a graphic claiming that the economy tanks when taxes are lowered on the rich. It’s so wrong it’s embarrassing. Bob Murphy and I dismantle the thing completely.
Robert P. Murphy holds a Ph.D. in economics from New York University. He is the author of numerous books (see below), including study guides to Ludwig von Mises’ Human Action (study guide here) and The Theory of Money and Credit(study guide here), and Murray Rothbard’s Man, Economy, and State(study guide here).
Ep. 118: Boom and Bust: The Cause (David Howden) (See also this short video, taken from this heavily viewed longer video, in which I explain the Austrian theory of the business cycle and the role of the Fed in the boom and bust.)
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Peter Schiff returns to the Tom Woods Show to answer listener questions about investing and the economy. Questions were solicited on Tom’s Facebook page, so make sure to ‘Like’ that page for future opportunities to get your questions answered.
Issues Discussed
What does Peter recommend as an investment strategy, for both low- and high-income earners?
What’s going on in Greece?
How can you distinguish between a genuinely good investment, and a central-bank fueled one?
What caused the oil price collapse, and what does the future hold?
What are Peter’s currency forecasts for 2015?
Why is Paul Krugman so upset with Peter?
About the Guest
Peter Schiff is CEO and Chief Global Strategist at Euro Pacific Capital, a frequent commentator on radio and television, and the New York Timesbestselling author of several books (see below).
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I knew there was a Washington Post writer in the audience at the Mises Institute‘s event on secession this past weekend in Houston, and I knew exactly why he was there: to write an article about the “extreme” Ron Paul, as a way of causing problems for Rand. Now that you know that, you’ll better understand the tone and content of my remarks, which were in large part directed right at him. In the resulting article, he didn’t quote me at all. No wonder.
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Corporations aren’t people, say protestors. Corporations are creatures of the state, say some libertarians. What’s the truth? Should libertarians support the corporate form or not? That’s the topic of discussion on today’s episode, with guest Stephan Kinsella.
About the Guest
Stephan Kinsella is Founder and Executive Editor of Libertarian Papers, Founder and Director of the Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom(C4SIF), a member of the Editorial Board of Reason Papers, a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Molinari Review, a member of the Advisory Board of the Lexington Books series Capitalist Thought: Studies in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, and a member of the Advisory Council of theGovernment Waste and Over-regulation Council of the Our America Initiative (2014—). A registered patent attorney and former adjunct professor at South Texas College of Law, Stephan has published numerous articles and books on IP law, international law, and the application of libertarian principles to legal topics. He received an LL.M. in international business law from King’s College London, a JD from the Paul M. Hebert Law Center at LSU, and BSEE and MSEE degrees from LSU.
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Bob Murphy, co-author of the paper discussed in this episode, is joining the faculty at Liberty Classroom this year! Learn from Bob in courses you can listen to on the go, plus live Q&A sessions and more. Twelve courses teaching the history and economics we didn’t learn in school await you already. Join us, using coupon code SHOW (all caps) for a special discount.
Derrick J Freeman lives in New Hampshire as part of the Free State Project. He produces several live podcasts and is the star of the movie Victimless Crime Spree. Watch it free online at VictimlessCrimeSpree.com
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All right, so it’s a cliche, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t need to be answered. Bob Murphy and I discuss a recent set of arguments in favor of state monopoly road provision.
Robert P. Murphy holds a Ph.D. in economics from New York University. He is the author of numerous books (see below), including study guides to Ludwig von Mises’ Human Action (study guide here) and The Theory of Money and Credit(study guide here), and Murray Rothbard’s Man, Economy, and State(study guide here).
Bob Murphy is joining the faculty at Liberty Classroom this year! Learn from Bob in courses you can listen to on the go, plus live Q&A sessions and more. Twelve courses teaching the history and economics we didn’t learn in school await you already. Join us, using coupon code SHOW (all caps) for a special discount.
James Babb joins me today to discuss an important and exciting jury education campaign, letting potential jurors know about the rights they have that they won’t learn about in the courtroom.
About the Guest
James Babb is a libertarian activist in Philadelphia. Among his projects isWeWontFly.com, a campaign against the TSA.
Ep. 72: Jury Nullification (Steve Silverman) Ep. 99: Judge Napolitano! (Judge Andrew Napolitano answers a question on jury nullification around 11:30 or so into the discussion)
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This conversation with Marc Clair of Lions of Liberty is top notch. He asked all kinds of great questions and kept the conversation hopping. We covered everything from my intellectual evolution to war, nullification (on which he asked me a question that I had to admit I didn’t have a great answer for!), podcasting, and more. Have a listen!
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What can children read that illustrates the principles of liberty? Not a whole lot, to be blunt. That’s why I’m so pleased with Connor Boyack’s beautiful new Tuttle Twins series, the most recent entry of which is a children’s version of Leonard Read’s famous essay “I, Pencil.” That’s what we talked about on the show today.
About the Guest
Connor Boyack is the author of several books and the president of theLibertas Institute, a public-policy think-tank based in Utah.
Here are 26 reasons to adopt Ron Paul’s homeschool curriculum today (and 4 not to). Sign up through this link and I’ll send you a FREE 10-lesson bonus course on the foundations of liberty, in time for the 2015-2016 academic year! Just drop me a line once you’ve signed up and I’ll get it to you.
Ep. 110: The First Money Bomb (Steve Hogarth) Ep. 74: The Episode of the Year (Brad Birzer) Ep. 3: Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson (you can hear the raw sound of the early episodes on this one)
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Robert P. Murphy holds a Ph.D. in economics from New York University. He is the author of numerous books (see below), including study guides to Ludwig von Mises’ Human Action (study guide here) and The Theory of Money and Credit(study guide here), and Murray Rothbard’s Man, Economy, and State(study guide here).
There’s more to education than formal schooling. It’s time to embrace better, more effective, and more humane models of education, says Brett Veinotte.
About the Guest
Brett Veinotte is the host and editor of the School Sucks Project and podcast. He has worked in private education in various capacities for a dozen years.
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When we consider the significance of the abolition of slavery, a ubiquitous and seemingly entrenched institution, it's surprising how little many of us know about how it actually happened. Jim Powell shares the story with us!
Issues Discussed
Why the abolition of slavery was so peaceful in Britain
The three essential precursors to the abolition of slavery in Britain
Why it would have been better, in Powell's words, to "let the [American] South go"
The abolition of slavery in Haiti and Brazil
Why peaceful strategies against slavery yielded better long-run outcomes
Jim's current project, a vast historical study of how the free society came about
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