Ep. 539 Assessing Hayek’s Road to Serfdom
Adam Haman returns to share a video from X, which purports to break down Hayek’s arguments so that even a 10-year-old would get them. Bob praises and critiques the video’s rhetorical approach. Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest: The YouTube version of this episode. Bob on Hayek’s knowledge problem vs. Mises’ calculation…
Ep. 89 David Gordon on His Interactions with Hayek and Rothbard, the Philosophy of Economics, and Libertarianism as an Alleged Suicide Pact
David Gordon is a Senior Fellow with the Mises Institute who has a long history in Austrian economics and libertarianism. He talks with Bob about his personal story, including taking an undergrad class at UCLA with Hayek as his professor. Then they turn to philosophical issues in economics, and end with an analysis of the…
Ep. 56 Bob Murphy Explains Austrian Business Cycle Theory, the Inverted Yield Curve, and the Coming Recession
Bob goes solo to give a quick explanation of the Mises-Hayek theory of the boom-bust cycle, and how he used it to forecast the financial crisis in 2008 a year ahead of time. He then explains the significance of an “inverted yield curve,” and shows how the Austrians can understand its predictive power much better…