The Human Action Podcast

Comic Dave Smith joins Jeff and Bob for a compelling look at the poisonous political landscape in post-goodwill America.

The IRS plans to hire 87,000 new armed agents, while an FBI raid on Trump–the administration's open political rival–draws allegations of corruption. Economists and political scientists, from Mises to Robert Higgs to James Burnham to public choice scholars, explain why mission creep and abuse by state agencies is the rule rather than the exception.

Mises on the managerial state: https://Mises.org/Bureaucracy

James Burnham's The Managerial Revolution: https://Mises.org/Burnham

Bob Murphy Show Episode on the FBI: https://Mises.org/BMS92

Jonathan Turley on Trump being disqualified from office: https://Mises.org/HAP356-1

Has economics fallen to politics? Court economists like Paul Krugman–we might call them "regime economists"–represent a profession in big trouble. Jeff and Bob discuss.

Michael Tanner, "PIketty Gets it Wrong": https://Mises.org/HAP355-1

Bob Murphy on the economics establishment vs. Judy Shelton: https://Mises.org/HAP355-2

Jeff Deist on Nancy McLean's unprofessional attacks: https://Mises.org/HAP355-3

Bob's article with Phillip Magness on Piketty: https://Mises.org/HAP355-4

Jeff Deist and Connor Mortell host an AMA during Mises University 2022 with the topic of "What You Can Do."

Connor Boyack, author of the new Tuttle Twins book America's History: 1215-1776, joins the show to make the Rothbardian case for de-bamboozling history.

America’s History: A Tuttle Twins Series of Stories: TuttleTwins.com/History

Rothbard on Historical Revisionism: Mises.org/HAP353-1

Today, inflation and prices are soaring. We know that Federal Reserve monetary policy is the cause. But why didn't something similar happen after the 2008 financial crash?

Bob Murphy and professor Ross McKitrick discuss the government policies, Fed actions, and banking movements that lead up to the 2008 crisis, and why the current economic situation is different.

Ross McKitrick on inflation then versus now: https://Mises.org/HAP-McKitrick

Bob explains how Keynesians missed the latest bout of price inflation: https://Mises.org/HAP347-Murphy

Bob's book Understanding Money Mechanics: https://Mises.org/Mechanics

We spend a lot of time on this show talking about central banking. This week we talk about central bankers themselves, from Powell to Brainard to Lagarde to Greenspan. Robert Aro joins.

Would you give up voting in exchange for no more taxes? Stephan Livera joins the show to discuss the curious distinction between economic freedom and personal or political freedoms, and how we weigh those freedoms.

The Fraser/Cato Human Freedom Index: https://Mises.org/HFI

The Heritage Index of Economic Freedom: https://Mises.org/IEF

Jeff is solo this week and hosts Tom Woods to ask a simple question: Why do social issues dominate our attention, to the detriment of economics and fiscal reality?

Read Jeff's article "Why Social Issues Dominate" https://Mises.org/Dominate

This week Jeff is solo with very special guest Jimmy Rogers, the famed investor, Alabama native, and fan of Austrian economics.