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Menger’s Barter Theory of the Origin of Money Is Still Standing
September 30, 2025
Professor Georgy Ganev joins Bob to explain that, contrary to the claims of David Graeber and the MMTers, the barter origin of
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How the Fourteenth Amendment Empowers Judicial Activism
September 30, 2025
Created to assure that newly-freed slaves would receive equal legal protection, the Fourteenth Amendment has come to dominate federal jurisprudence. This is
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When Political Violence Becomes a Signal
September 30, 2025
Individual voters have little reason to become informed. Politicians have strong incentives to pander rather than persuade. Partisans are rewarded for tribal
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The Wheels of Government Cheese
September 30, 2025
By trying to protect dairy farmers and raise their incomes, the government created a massive cheese surplus, then gave it away, thus
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The Normalization of Assassination
September 30, 2025
During the Cold War, pro-assassination forces gained ground, but the illegal killing was hidden because it was inconsistent with the shining-city-on-the-hill propaganda.
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Schumpeter Explains the Origins of the Modern Tax State
September 30, 2025
In the West, the "tax states" we now live under are relatively modern institutions, and they developed from earlier non-state civil governments
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The Wheels of Government Cheese
September 30, 2025
By trying to protect dairy farmers and raise their incomes, the government created a massive cheese surplus, then gave it away, thus
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Does Cartelization Threaten the Feasibility of Anarcho-Capitalism?
September 29, 2025
One of the objections against anarcho-capitalism is that without government supervision, businesses will form cartels. However, free markets have their own ways
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Criticism of causal-scientific social research: Investigations into the foundations of sociology and economics
September 29, 2025
English translation of Hans-Hermann Hoppe's Kritik der kausalwissenschaftlichen Sozialforschung (Opladen 1983). Translated by Andreas Tank.