Hosted by Jeff Deist, The Human Action Podcast (formerly "Mises Weekends") features weekly interviews with leaders in Austrian economics and libertarianism.
Yes, Tariffs Reduce Imports, but They Also Reduce Exports
55 mins; October 22, 2025
Why Rothbard Thought the Fed Eliminated Market Safeguards Against Bank Inflation
72 hours 13 mins; August 22, 2025
An Actual Plan to Close the Fed and Tie the Dollar Back to Gold
70 hours 41 mins; July 18, 2025
Essays in Austrian Economics: Honoring Joe Salerno
48 mins; July 07, 2025
Steve Hanke on Hyperinflation, Currency Boards, and the COVID Lockdown Debacle
39 mins; July 01, 2025
Thomas Paine: The American Revolution's Unlikely Hero
49 mins; June 22, 2025
New Academic Paper Uses Rothbard's National Output Metric
47 mins; June 11, 2025
Why Are US Drug Prices So High?
52 mins; May 19, 2025
Perfecting the Libertarian Argument for Dealing with the Drug Cartels
66 hours 13 mins; March 06, 2025
Unpacking the Document that Spells Out Trump's Tariff Strategy
58 mins; February 13, 2025
Erick Brimen Explains the Free City of Próspera
40 mins; February 08, 2025
Would Trump's Plan to Replace Income Tax with Tariffs Work?
36 mins; January 31, 2025
Murphy and Newman Do a Postgame Analysis of ZeroHedge MMT Debate
61 hours 19 mins; January 23, 2025
Lawrence McQuillan Explains The Policy Inferno Behind the California Wildfires
54 mins; January 18, 2025
The Flaws of GDP Accounting Explained
63 hours 27 mins; January 10, 2025
Why Government Relief Spending Only Makes the Recession Worse
68 hours 48 mins; January 02, 2025
Matt McCaffrey on Frank Fetter vs. Alfred Marshall on the Theory of Rent
57 mins; December 28, 2024
Dr. Keith Smith: What Critics Miss About For-Profit Healthcare
50 mins; December 20, 2024
What's More "Wicked" than the Crime of '73?
44 mins; December 12, 2024
David Glasner on the Sraffa-Hayek Debate
45 mins; December 04, 2024
Responding to Bryan Caplan's Continued Critique of the Austrians
45 mins; November 29, 2024
Clarifying Economists' Arguments About International Trade
46 mins; November 22, 2024
How Can Mining Asteroids in the Future Make Us Richer Today?
47 mins; November 07, 2024
Unpacking Mises: Fractional Reserve Banking and the Currency School
44 mins; October 31, 2024
What Was Mises' Position on Fractional Reserve Banking?
58 mins; October 18, 2024
Philipp Bagus on the Flaws in the “Real Bills” Doctrine
54 mins; October 11, 2024
Paul Cwik's New Introduction to Austrian Business Cycle Theory
56 mins; October 04, 2024
Tom Luongo on the Rival Factions Among Bankers
60 hours 46 mins; September 28, 2024
Has "Neo-Liberalism" Failed in the United States?
54 mins; September 21, 2024
How Government Propped Up Slavery
67 hours 19 mins; September 14, 2024
The Origin of Money: Menger vs. Graeber
84 hours 42 mins; September 06, 2024
Does Advanced Econ Justify Kamala Harris on Price Gouging?
53 mins; August 31, 2024
The Classical Economists’ Theory of Value Was More Sophisticated than You Think
65 hours 46 mins; August 23, 2024
The Collapse of the Yen Carry Trade: Impending Recession?
33 mins; August 16, 2024
How Economists Evaluate Tariffs Versus Income Taxes
51 mins; July 27, 2024
Does the Fed Push Interest Rates Down? History Says Yes
56 mins; July 20, 2024
Tackling More of Robert Reich’s 'Economic Myths'
47 mins; July 05, 2024
Why Assange Was Released
53 mins; June 28, 2024
Why the Scottish "Free Banking" Episode Doesn't Justify Fractional Reserves
70 hours 20 mins; June 21, 2024
Tackling Robert Reich's First Two "Economic Myths"
48 mins; June 14, 2024
Garett Jones on the Economic Impact of Culture on Immigration
54 mins; May 24, 2024
Did the MMT Camp Correctly Predict the Post-Covid Economy?
49 mins; April 26, 2024
FDR's War Against Civil Liberties
62 hours 55 mins; April 19, 2024
Simon Guenzl vs. Dave Smith on Open Borders
94 hours 20 mins; April 12, 2024
Are American Libertarians Unduly Pessimistic?
53 mins; April 05, 2024
Making the Case for Private Law and Defense From Scratch
71 hours 25 mins; March 29, 2024
Ryan McMaken on the History and Benefits of Secession
53 mins; March 23, 2024
Why We Don't Need Government Funding for "Moonshots"
42 mins; March 15, 2024
Tom DiLorenzo on Antitrust, Abe Lincoln, and the Future of the Austrian School
54 mins; March 08, 2024
The Fed's Milkshake Brings All the Foreigners to the Yard
69 hours 4 mins; March 01, 2024
Murphy Gives Post-Game Analysis of ZeroHedge Dollar Debate
91 hours 47 mins; February 16, 2024
Responding to James Lindsay's Critique of "National Divorce"
86 hours 15 mins; February 09, 2024
We Like Ike! Joe Salerno on Rolling Back the Ideology of Inflation
47 mins; February 02, 2024
Peter St. Onge On Who's Taking Your Money
52 mins; January 26, 2024
Are Capital Gains Income? The Connection with Mises' Calculation Problem
69 hours 40 mins; January 19, 2024
Garett Jones on the Legacy of Robert Solow
60 hours 3 mins; January 12, 2024
Murray Sabrin on Our Broken Medical System
59 mins; January 05, 2024
How Statism Leads to War
53 mins; November 10, 2023
Responding to Yaron Brook's Critique of Anarcho-Capitalism
67 hours 30 mins; October 27, 2023
The Male/Female Wage Gap and This Year's Nobel Laureate
51 mins; October 20, 2023
Diving Deeper into the Fed's Trillion Dollar Loss
66 hours 20 mins; October 14, 2023
Inflation in Money or Prices? The Definition Matters
35 mins; October 06, 2023
How Is the Fed Insolvent and Why Should We Care?
49 mins; September 30, 2023
Are Workers Being Paid Their Product? Watch Out for Misleading Charts
55 mins; September 22, 2023
Why Plea Deals Are a Miscarriage of Justice
59 mins; September 15, 2023
The Beltway Libertarians Are Too Smart for Oliver Anthony
45 mins; September 08, 2023
Updating Böhm-Bawerk and Fixing Finance
45 mins; September 01, 2023
Is China's Economy Hitting a Roadbump or Quicksand?
40 mins; August 25, 2023
Is the Fed Responsible for the Recent Surge and Fall in Price Inflation?
52 mins; August 18, 2023
The Mirage of "Equal Pay" in Sports
48 mins; August 11, 2023
Soft landing? Not likely
57 mins; August 04, 2023
Everything You Need to Know About FedNow
48 mins; July 28, 2023
How the Fed Could Bring in a Cbdc through the Back Door
58 mins; July 21, 2023
Exposing the FBI Coverup of Biden Corruption
62 hours 52 mins; July 14, 2023
MMT's Warren Mosler Argues Fed Rate Hikes Cause Growth and Inflation
71 hours 19 mins; July 07, 2023
The Impact of Falling M2 on Prices and Jobs
38 mins; June 30, 2023
MMT Says Government Debt Makes Private Saving Possible
45 mins; June 23, 2023
Why ChatGPT Failed an Economics Exam
57 mins; June 16, 2023
Do Sticky Prices Make the Market Stuck?
40 mins; June 09, 2023
Do People Value Money Because They Need It to Pay Taxes?
62 hours 40 mins; June 02, 2023
Remembering the Contributions of Lucas and Alchian
59 mins; May 19, 2023
Does the Inverted Yield Curve Signal a Coming Recession?
35 mins; May 12, 2023
Krugman Says It's Paranoid to Worry About a Fed Digital Currency
