Ep. 464 Parsing Curtis Yarvin’s Rendition of Misesian Monetary Theory
Steve Patterson joins Bob to analyze a recent interview of Curtis Yarvin, in which he favorably discusses Mises’ views on money and banking. Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest: The YouTube version of this episode. Yarvin on the Peter McCormack show. Bob’s prior critique of Yarvis on libertarianism and finance. Bagus and Howden responding…
Ep. 361 Steve Patterson Defends Roger Ver’s Book, Hijacking Bitcoin
Steve Patterson is an iconoclast who always seeks to puncture the orthodox narrative. In this episode, he defends the book he helped Roger Ver write, in which they lament the alleged “hijacking” of Bitcoin away from Satoshi’s original vision. Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest: The YouTube version of this episode. The website…
Ep. 329 Steve Patterson and Bob Murphy Offer Competing Resolutions to the Mind-Body Problem
Steve Patterson returns, this time trying to solve the mind-body problem with Bob. Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest: The YouTube version of this interview. Steve Patterson’s attempted solution to the mind-body problem. Steve’s website. Murphy’s talk about dualism in Mises. “Voltaire vs. Leibniz” (in verse). An explainer on Leibniz’s optimism. The EPR paradox.…
Ep. 287 Ian Deters Defends the Use of Infinity in Higher Mathematics
Back on BMS ep. 229, Bob invited Steve Patterson back to the show to discuss Riemann’s Rearrangement Theorem, which was such a counterintuitive result that Bob changed his mind and agreed with Steve that mathematicians had smuggled nonsense into their field. Math PhD Ian Deters now joins Bob to defend the use of infinity in…
Ep. 229 Bob Murphy Admits Steve Patterson Was Right About the Problems With Infinity
Bob has Steve Patterson back on the show, to concede that Steve’s skepticism of higher mathematics was right all along. Specifically, Bob explains how his recent discovery of a theorem from Riemann showed that something is indeed rotten in the way mathematicians typically handle infinite sets. Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest:…