I talked to Amity Shlaes on my show the other day — in particular, we discussed the life and presidency of Calvin Coolidge, about whom Shlaes has written an excellent biography . Have a listen! Get a commute-sized portion of liberty education Monday through Friday by subscribing to the Tom Woods Show on… Read More
Awesome: Austrian Economist Takes on Bestselling College Text, Chapter by Chapter
What a great conversation with Professor Jeff Herbener, associate editor of the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, who has just finished recording the lectures for the brand new Liberty Classroom course “What’s Wrong With Textbook Economics.” Jeff went through the highly popular Paul Samuelson and William Nordhaus… Read More
The Bad Economics of the Minimum Wage and the Fast Food Protests
This week I spoke to Diana Furchtgott-Roth of Economics 21 about the economics of the minimum wage and specifically about who was behind the fast-food protests. Do people spontaneously strike for 100% wage increases? Get a commute-sized portion of liberty education Monday through Friday by subscribing to… Read More
Comedian David Angelo vs. Anti-Capitalist Fallacies
I talked to Emmy-nominated comedy writer David Angelo today about his fantastic series of videos overturning common economic fallacies. Have a listen! (Here’s the audio file by itself.) Get a commute-sized portion of liberty education Monday through Friday by subscribing to the Tom Woods Show on iTunes or Stitcher !
How to Reach Statists on Health Care
Today I talked to documentary filmmaker Colin Gunn , who has made an excellent film about government vs. market health care called Wait Till It’s Free . Have a listen! Get a commute-sized portion of liberty education Monday through Friday by subscribing to the Tom Woods Show on iTunes or Stitcher… Read More
Murphy/Woods on Bitcoin, Chicago vs. Austrian Economics, and More
Bob Murphy joined me today — National Podcast Day (no kidding) — to answer listener questions submitted via my Twitter account . A great conversation ensued. Have a listen! Get a commute-sized portion of liberty education Monday through Friday by subscribing to the Tom Woods Show on iTunes or Stitcher… Read More
A Key Slice of Libertarian History, with Larry Reed
I spoke today to Larry Reed of the Foundation for Economic Education , the venerable institution that played such a key role in promoting free-market ideas at a low point for those ideas in American history. It’s important for us to know our own history, so I’m glad I… Read More
The Transition from Communism: What Happened Next?
How did eastern Europe transition away from communism? What were conditions like on the eve of the transformation? What factors contributed to it? What happened to all the property owned by the state? Today I discussed the Polish case with Professor Mateusz Machaj . You guys have… Read More
More Anti-Libertarian Myths Refuted on the One-Year Anniversary of the Tom Woods Show
Thanks so much for listening in over the past year! I did today’s show on my own, answering listener questions about child labor, working-hours legislation, the minimum wage, and how to tell your kids their textbooks are screwy. Have a listen! Get a commute-sized portion… Read More
‘If Only the Fed Had Listened to Me!’: The Fallacies of the ‘Taylor Rule’
Mateusz Machaj joined me today to discuss the fashionable “Taylor Rule,” a rule for monetary policy that supposedly would have prevented the housing bubble. Matt shows how to respond to this claim. Have a listen! Get a commute-sized portion of liberty education Monday through Friday… Read More
