Dr. Samuele Murtinu explains both how and why governments fail in their best efforts to help entrepreneurial businesses succeed.

Professor Bradley Birzer from Hillsdale College joins the show to dissect Russell Kirk's famous 1981 essay condemning libertarians.

Matt McCaffrey identifies the principles of Austrian economics that underpin a distinctive approach to business strategy.

Recorded live at Mises University 2021!

Strategy is not the formulation of a plan. It is emergent from a process of exploration and discovery.

On the fiftieth anniversary of Nixon's gold shock, The Fiat Standard is an amazing explication of how the West fell to its current state. You don't want to miss this show, especially Saifedean's epic takedown of fiat academia at the end!

Joe Matarese shares how he created a dynamic market leader from a three-person startup.

Mises.org editors Tho Bishop and Ryan McMaken join the show to explain the tremendous descriptive power of this essay, and why we need Rothbard as much as Burnham, Machiavelli, or Sun Tzu when it comes to strategy. 

Traditional contracts are written in anticipation of conflict. A new form of contract called a relational contract aims to address the problem.

Jeff Deist and John Tamny discuss the economic tradeoffs ignored by alarmist covid policymakers.