Here’s lecture one of the brand new logic course now available at my Liberty Classroom . The whole course is great, as is its professor, Gerard Casey of University College, Dublin. Professor Casey has been teaching logic and other courses in philosophy for over 30 years. His most recent… Read More
Libertarian Movement Now More Reasonable, Say Objectivists
Yaron Brook of the Ayn Rand Institute explains his organization’s willingness to work with libertarians, who in the old days were ritually denounced by Objectivists: I don’t think there’s been a significant change in terms of our attitude towards libertarians. Two things have happened. We’ve grown,… Read More
Understanding This Year’s Nobel in Economics
Peter Klein gives a brief explanation of the work of Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapley.
Question for You Audio People
The lapel mic I use records in only one channel, and the other channel is white noise. So I wind up having to clean out the white noise and then combine the channels. Obviously this is stupid. Surely it must be easy to find a… Read More
Austrian Economics in China
Zhang Weiying warned about malinvestment, about artificially low interest rates and stimulus, etc., and is now seeing vindication. (Thanks to Murray Sabrin and everyone else who sent me the WSJ piece.)
Journalist Plays Word Association Game with Me
Well, not quite. But Rob Nikolewski of New Mexico’s Capitol Report named some famous people and asked me to comment on each one, after a speech I gave in Albuquerque yesterday.
Successful Civilizations and Successful People Share This Trait
Willingness to delay gratification. Courtesy of Gary North , check out this experiment involving children who were told they could eat one marshmallow now or two in a little while. The differences between these children later in life are astonishing. (The same phenomenon applies to civilizations, as… Read More
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My Real Education
How I was introduced to the Austrian School of economics .
Voluntaryism, the Fed, Steve Forbes, and More
I covered a lot of ground on yesterday’s Peter Schiff Show , and interviewed Steve Forbes to boot. Thanks to the mystery person who put it online!

