Robert Higgs, economist and economic historian and author of Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episods in the Growth of American Government , looks at the domestic consequences of World War I.
Archives for November 2014
Ep. 210 Mind Your Own Business
David Henderson of Stanford University’s Hoover Institution makes the case for a foreign policy of nonintervention. Read his speech “ An Economist’s Case for a Noninterventionist Foreign Policy .”
Ep. 209 World War I the Last Crusade?
Richard Gamble, author of The War for Righteousness: Progressive Christianity, the Great War, and the Rise of the Messianic Nation , talks about religion as a factor in World War I. And read Richard’s article “ Was World War I the Last Crusade? “
Ep. 208 The Start to World War I
Hunt Tooley, author of The Western Front: Battle Ground and Home Front in the First World War , discusses the factors that combined to produce World War I.
Ep. 207 Organized Crime
Tom DiLorenzo discusses his book Organized Crime: The Unvarnished Truth About Government .
Ep. 206 Austrian Potpourri
Joseph Salerno, director of the graduate program in economics at Pace University, academic vice president of the Mises Institute, and author of Money: Sound and Unsound , joins Tom to cover a wide variety of Austrian ground.
Ep. 205 Spreading Liberty
John Papola of EconStories.tv on his multimedia approach to spreading Austrian economics and liberty.
Ep. 204 A Judge Against the Drug War?
Judge Jim Gray talks about how his professional experience turned him against the drug war.
Ep. 203 How Government Can Grab Your Stuff
Eapen Thampy of Americans for Forfeiture Reform talks about asset forfeiture.
Ep. 202 Ralph Nader on Left and Right
Ralph Nader joins Tom to discuss his new book Unstoppable: The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State .