Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1531: Only a Theory
Episode: 1531 On restoring the word theory. Today, let's theorize.
Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1531: Only a Theory
Episode: 1531 On restoring the word theory. Today, let's theorize.
Audio Mises Wire - The Bill of Rights Against the States
We are told that the Bill of Rights is the bedrock of our freedom, yet this same Bill of Rights ultimately has been used as a weapon against state sovereignty and against our individual rights.
Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/bill-rights-against-states
Audio Mises Wire - In Defense of National Borders
The current outburst of protests against President Trump’s enforcement of immigration laws is overshadowing a question that is not being asked: Can we defend having national borders in the first place?
Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/defense-national-borders
Audio Mises Wire - We Act in a World of Uncertainty, Not Probabilities
Human action involves people engaging in unique events in which outcomes often are uncertain, when expertise and planning often do not give us the results we anticipate.
Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/we-act-world-uncertainty-not-probabilities
Curious City - No cars, no road salt: How one Midwestern community avoids salt all winter
Chicago — like so many other frigid American cities — can’t seem to kick its dependence on road salt.
In our last episode, we learned how winter weather on both ends of the thermometer can impact the local economy. Some businesses come out on top during the coldest winters: auto mechanics repairing cars when they hit a pothole, snow plow companies shoveling out small businesses and rock salt providers when the roads get icy.
But chloride from salt is harmful to both our natural and built environments. You’d be hard-pressed to find a cold-weather community that avoids road salt altogether, but we found one!
In this encore presentation, we visit a place way up north, Mackinac Island, Michigan. Dominick Miller, chief of marketing at the Mackinac State Historic Parks, tells us about how the island deals with snow and ice in the winter without laying down a single grain of salt. And it has a lot to do with the fact that cars have been banned on Mackinac Island for over a century.
The Indicator from Planet Money - How your favorite fish sticks might be funding Russia’s war
Russia exports billions of dollars worth of fish a year across the world. But after the invasion of Ukraine, the U.S. banned imports of Russian fish. It turns out those bans are only so effective. Today on the show, how Russia has dodged import bans to keep selling billions of dollars worth of seafood every year, and how the U.S. has struggled to stop it.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2562: Paul Samuelson and the textbook Economics
Episode: 2562 Paul Samuelson and the textbook Economics. Today, a book that helped educate the world.
Audio Mises Wire - Class Conflict, the Jacksonians, and Exploitation
In a truly free market, there is no class conflict. In the presence of the state, however, things are different because various groups jockey with each other to gain the favor of state agents.
Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/class-conflict-jacksonians-and-exploitation
Audio Mises Wire - Anarcho-Tyranny and the UK Grooming Gangs Scandal
The rise of the grooming gangs in Great Britain and the refusal of Britain’s Labor government to intervene speaks volumes about the contempt that British political elites have for their laws and the people who must live under a regime of anarcho-tyranny.
Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/anarcho-tyranny-and-uk-grooming-gangs-scandal