The Human Action Podcast

The Human Action Podcast

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The Human Action Podcast episodes

  • Davos: Has Globalism Peaked?
    Jeff and Bob break down this week's Davos WEF conference and consider whether global elites really have the mechanisms to impose their plans.
    Johnny Vedmore's analysis of Schwab's origins: https://Mises.org/HAP379a
    Scott Greer says America's right-want needs to stop dwelling on Schwab: https://Mises.org/HAP379b
    Schwab bragging about penetrating Cabinets: https://Mises.org/HAP379c
    44 min
  • Can We Fix the Economy?
    Jeff and Bob record a special Thanksgiving episode for Money Talk 1010 AM on what it really takes to fix the US economy.
    Mark Thornton on the coming economic crisis: https://Mises.org/HAP371A
    Listen to Jeff on Money Talk 1010 every Thursday at 9:00am ET: https://Mises.org/MoneyTalk
    52 min
  • Words as Weapons
    Criticisms of hapless Senate candidate John Fetterman are labeled "ableist," while Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter is deemed fascist. Jeff and Bob take a hard look at the linguistic battlefield and the corruption of language as an institution.
    Jeff's paper on language, "Evolution or Corruption?": https://Mises.org/HAP367-1
    George Orwell's essay "Politics and the English Language": https://Mises.org/HAP367-2
    Ken Smith's Junk English: https://Mises.org/HAP367-3
    Bryan Caplan on "Privilege": https://Mises.org/HAP367-4
    51 min
  • The Need for Beauty in Economics
    Free Markets are often criticized for producing ugly, dystopian, consumer-driven landscapes, but is this true? Jeff explains how we need more than intellectual appeal to advance the cause of liberty—we need an appeal to beauty.
    Watch the other talks from our 40th Anniversary Celebration: https://mises.org/SS2022
    33 min
  • The Economics of War
    Daniel McAdams of the Ron Paul Institute joins Jeff and Bob to discuss the economic and political ramifications of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline sabotage.
    Read "The Economics of War" from Human Action: https://Mises.org/HAP363-1
    Read a study Bob co-authored on Europe's energy crisis: https://Mises.org/HAP363-2
    30 min
  • Inflation Kills
    Bob and Jeff unravel the corrosive and nonsensical policy of "inflationism," and consider its deep cultural effects.
    Read Jeff's talk from the recent Ron Paul Institute conference: Mises.org/HAP360-1
    46 min

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Hosted by Jeff Deist, The Human Action Podcast (formerly "Mises Weekends") features weekly interviews with leaders in Austrian economics and libertarianism.