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Ep. 514 Bryan Caplan on the Strengths and Weaknesses of Rothbard’s “For a New Liberty”

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GMU economics professor Bryan Caplan discusses his recent substack series going through Rothbard’s classic, For a New Liberty, chapter by chapter. Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest: The YouTube version of this episode. The cited chapter summaries from Bryan Caplan’s review of Rothbard: nine, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, and fifteen. This episode’s sponsor,…

Ep. 77 Rob Bradley on His Contributions to Energy Economics, Rothbard as Dissertation Chair, and Enron as a Postmodern Corporation

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Rob Bradley is the world’s leading expert in energy economics in the Austrian tradition. His treatise Oil, Gas, and Government is the definitive record of U.S. government intervention in the oil & gas markets. Rob chose Murray Rothbard as the chair for his dissertation in Political Economy. At one point in his career, Rob served as a…

Ep. 49 Patrick Newman Cracks the Code to Publish a New Rothbard Manuscript

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Economist Patrick Newman relays his adventurous tale of deciphering Murray Rothbard’s handwritten manuscript on early American history. Needless to say, Rothbard’s take is not what you learned in school. Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest: Patrick Newman’s QJAE article on Rothbard’s previously unpublished chapter on production theory (intended to be Chapter 5…

Ep. 43 Michel Accad, MD, Leads Bob on a Discussion of “Efficiency” and “Market Failure” as Used in Health Economics

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Michel Accad practices cardiology and general internal medicine in San Francisco, and holds a part-time clinical faculty appointment at the University of California San Francisco. This episode reproduces a discussion Bob had on Michel’s podcast, where they discussed the development of “welfare economics” in mainstream theory, in preparation for their subsequent discussion (which will be…