Interviews

Bob gives a guest lecture for Jonathan Newman’s MA course for the Mises Institute, on the history of, and new developments in, the pure time preference theory of interest.

At the 2021 AERC, Jeff Herbener presented a defense of the pure time preference theory of interest, and mentioned Bob’s critique of it. This episode is a very informative discussion of their views.

Few people can be said to be the originator of a new science. Jim Spohrer is one of those rare beings. The science he originated is Service Science.

Patrick Newman and Tho Bishop join the show to dissect The Betrayal of the American Right, which is both a critical history and a fascinating political memoir of Rothbard's own journey to libertarianism.

Hunter Hastings and Alan Payne discuss the technique of entrepreneurial business history.

Bob Murphy joins the show to discuss Rothbard's superb and eminently readable money book for lay readers.

Bob Murphy and Stephan Livera discuss the economics of Bitcoin from an Austrian perspective.

Dan Morgan, MD, joins the show to discuss a recent paper he co-authored about probabilistic diagnostic reasoning among clinicians.

Bart Jackson takes two perspectives on being CEO: the job and the person in it.

Ross Benes offers a fascinating look at how and why we have allowed politicians to alienate us, and a hopeful call for a less political America.