MisesUK.Org Podcast

On Show 28 of the Mises UK Podcast, Andy Duncan speaks to Professor Guido Hülsmann about a new forthcoming book that he’s working on, based on the concept of a free lunch, or rather the political economy of gratuitousness. In a packed interview, along the way we also cover a pertinent encyclical by Pope Benedict XVI, the economic consequences of

On Show 27 of the Mises UK podcast, Andy Duncan speaks with Sean Gabb about his newly-published book: ‘Radical Coup: A Case for Reaction’. We concentrate on the main idea mapped out within it, which is Sean’s ‘frontal attack’ plan for taking English society and culture back away from a tax-eating statist Guardian-Reader elite, and all those other socialists who

On Show 26, Andy Duncan speaks with Doctor Andreas Tiedtke, from Mises Deutschland, about the Misesian praxeology of ten different individual state taxes, and how each type has different negative effects upon human behaviour. They examine how each one of these taxes wreaks its own particular kind havoc upon a free society, starting with the least bad, at number 10,

On Show 25, Andy Duncan speaks with one of our Mises UK Faculty members, Doctor Matteo Salonia, who lectures at King’s College in London, in early modern history, from the 15th century to the French Revolution. He’s also author of the recent book, ‘Genoa’s Freedom’. They talk about the influence of Niccolo Machiavelli, the infamous 16th century author of ‘The

On Show 24 of the Mises UK Podcast, with host, Andy Duncan, we speak with our Caledonian man in Edinburgh, David Farrer, the power behind the throne on the ‘Freedom and Whisky’ blog site. We talk about the current state of Scotland as regards freedom, whisky, socialism, and secession, given the failure of the 2014 referendum to secede Scotland from

On Show 23 of the Mises UK Podcast, with regular host, Andy Duncan, we speak with Helio Beltrão, the founder and president of ‘Instituto Mises Brasil’, about the recent 200-year celebration of Karl Marx’s birth. We also cover the success that Mises Brasil has had spreading the ideas of Mises within Brazil and also, and how these ideas can be

On Show 22 of the Mises UK Podcast, Andy Duncan speaks with the Reverend Rory McClure, a Free Church Pastor for an independent evangelical church, about the subject of inequality in society, and how inequality measures up within Christianity. We touch upon Marx, the Old Testament, the New Testament, Pope Francis, socialism, and diversity. Sponsored by: http://finlingo.com/ iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/misesuk-org-podcast/id1322473728 Music: http://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music

On Show 21 of the MisesUK.Org podcast, Andy Duncan spoke with Tho Bishop, the Social Media and Press Editor at Mises.Org, in Auburn, Alabama, about the recent missile attack, on Syria. This was carried out by the U.S., the U.K., and the French governments, following an alleged ‘chemical attack’ on Douma, in Syria, supposedly carried out by President Assad. Sponsored

On Show 20 of the MisesUK.Org podcast, regular host Andy Duncan spoke with Claudio Grass, a Mises Ambassador for the Mises Institute and a precious metals advisor based in Switzerland, about Hayek's ideas on the denationalisation of money. These stem from Hayek's book on this subject first published in 1976. They focussed on the removal of the state from the production of money and the relevancy of Hayek's ideas in this newer age of cryptocurrencies, along with the older monies of gold, silver, and other valuable commodities, possibly also becoming combined with the latest block chain technologies. Sponsored by:  http://finlingo.com Music: http://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music

Tonight, on Show 19 of the MisesUK.Org podcast, regular host Andy Duncan spoke with Ryan McMaken, who is editor of both ‘Mises Wire’ and ‘The Austrian’, at the Mises Institute, in Auburn, Alabama, as well as the host on ‘Radio Rothbard’. They spoke about trade wars, trade tariffs, and other such matters, particularly in regard to the recent rumblings coming

Tonight, on show 18 of the MisesUK.Org podcast, regular host Andy Duncan spoke with Duncan Whitmore, who was the recent winner of our Mises UK Essay competition and who also spoke at our recent Mises UK conference. They spoke about economics, hard money, monetary inflation, the potential collapse of the EU, Brexit, the glorious Jacob Rees-Mogg MP, the abominable Theresa May PM, Hayek, Mises, the spread of Austrian School economics, localisation, secession, the Holy Roman Empire, the wonder of Switzerland, the British state’s National Health Service, and a few other measly extraneous matters.

Tonight on Show 17 of the MisesUK.Org Podcast, Andy Duncan speaks with Tom Rogers about his Mises UK Essay, which was a runner-up in our 2017 Essay Competition. The essay was entitled, 'Oil wars: Is this an accurate summary of US-led interventions in the Middle East of the 21st century?'. We explore that topic in a little more depth, as we approach nearly three decades of heavy western involvement in the Middle East since President Reagan pulled out the U.S. Marines from Lebanon, in 1984. We also talk about the human nature of warfare, the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes, and the book 'Nineteen-Eighty-Four', by George Orwell, amongst other subjects.

Tonight on Show 16 of the MisesUK.Org Podcast, Andy Duncan speaks with Austrian Economist, Swithun Dobson, about the 'Great British Economy'. They discuss the potential bubble in the British housing market, quantitative easing, British state deficits, the magic money tree of the Bank of England, the immediate future of the Conservative Party's leadership, Jacob Rees-Mogg, and the economic potential of Brexit.

Though ultimately about the future, this will also be a speech that dwells on the past. The first past event that I wish to discuss is what happened in June 2017. When I stood down as Director of the Libertarian Alliance, I was asked if I had taken leave of my senses. I was not visibly broken down by age and ill health. I had evidently not run out of things to say. Why, then, was I steeping aside in favour of a young man who was nearly forty years my junior?...

Duncan Whitmore on how economic decentralisation contributes towards economic prosperity.

Swithun Dobson examines the nature of the British economy in the face of its constant interference by the UK government and the Bank of England.

Jakub Jankowski speaks about the metapolitics of libertarianism and identitarianism in the UK and elsewhere.

The political philosophy of Niccolò Machiavelli does not appear to be a pressing problem. Yet, it is with a sense of urgency that I speak to you today. The reinterpretation, and actually, the misinterpretation of this sixteenth-century writer has reached such a level of absurdity in the academia and it starts to be so widespread in popular culture that it’s now influencing even conservative and libertarian circles...

George Pickering walks through the lessons he's learned from the Mises Institute, in Auburn, Alabama, and how we can apply them to help Mises UK thrive in the future, especially in comparison to organisations such as the Adam Smith Institute, and the Cato Institute.

We are, I believe, at a turning point in history. I see a glimmer, the tiniest wee glimmer, of the ‘End of Socialism’. So what is socialism? At its core, it’s a religion of theft. And its God is ‘The State’. So what’s ‘The State’? Well, the state is a murderous organised criminal gang, aided and abetted by its intellectual bodyguards who get their cut by masking this criminality...

Former Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, said of the Government’s planned ‘Extremism Disruption Orders’, that they will go “beyond terrorism” and “eliminate extremism in all its forms.” The Government has said that these Extremism Disruption Orders will be introduced to tackle “harmful activities” of “extremist individuals” who “spread hate” but do not “break laws.”...

Tonight, on our seventh MisesUK.Org podcast, Andy Duncan speaks with Yuri Maltsev, a Senior Fellow of the Ludwig Von Mises Institute and Professor of Economics in Wisconsin, as well as being an author of numerous books and many Austrian School articles. They compare and contrast President Donald Trump with President Vladimir Putin, examine how economics worked in the late Soviet Union, what Murray Rothbard was like to meet for the first time, and how they believe the future of Austrian Economics will go against Socialism. Sponsored by: http://finlingo.com/ iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/misesuk-org-podcast/id1322473728 Music: http://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music

Tonight, on episode six, we spoke with Jeff Deist, the President of the Mises Institute, in Auburn, Alabama, about that phenomenon of our age, President Donald Trump. We covered his intricate use of Forbes magazine, his tax cuts, his 'record year' on the stock market, his appeal to libertarians, the xenophobia he causes amongst American socialists, along with much, much more, including secession, his political Teflon abilities, and whether he will run again in 2020.

On our epic fifth podcast, Andy Duncan speaks with Sean Gabb, a Vice-Chairman of Mises UK, about a variant of that famous question from Monty Python's 'Life of Brian', what did the Romans, or the Greeks, ever do for us, in terms of modern western civilisation? We be cover the major Greek philosophers, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Epicurus, along with different Roman Emperors, including Nero, Caligula, and Constantine. Along the way, we explore the technological difference between us and the ancients, what we have to learn from the Byzantine Empire's resistance to the Moslem invasion from the East, plus the best and the worst of the Roman Empire's Emperors. As a special bonus, at the end of the program we also discover what the author Richard Blake might be doing in terms of his novel series on the Byzantine Empire. Sponsored by: http://finlingo.com/ iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/misesuk-org-podcast/id1322473728 Music: http://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music

On the fourth episode of the MisesUK.Org Podcast, Andy Duncan discusses with Stephan Kinsella the concept, theory, and practice of Bitcoin ownership, amongst other topics, which include the use of Bitcoin as money, the comparison between gold and Bitcoin, and the possible collapse of states everywhere due to the current monetary revolution which states may have been too slow to respond to, for the sake of their own existence. Sponsored by: http://finlingo.com/ Stephan Kinsella is  Director of the Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom, and the Founding and Executive Editor of Libertarian Papers. His personal website is http://www.stephankinsella.com/. iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/misesuk-org-podcast/id1322473728 Music: http://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music

In our third MisesUK.Org podcast, Andy Duncan talks to Roman Skaskiw about Bitcoin. So, what is Bitcoin? Is it in a bubble, like Tulipmania? How can a Bitcoin have no 'intrinsic' value? What does 'intrinsic value' mean in a subjective world? Will the nascent world government ban Bitcoin to make it worthless? Can it actually ban Bitcoin even if it wanted to? Did the NSA invent Bitcoin? We explore all of these issues in this edition. Sponsored by: http://finlingo.com/ Roman Skaskiw is a Bitcoin evangelist and business entrepreneur based in Ukraine. You can find his Bitcoin resources at: http://romanskaskiw.com/ iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/misesuk-org-podcast/id1322473728 Music: http://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music

In our second MisesUK.Org podcast, we talk to our Honorary President Godfrey Bloom about the current state of Brexit, whether it's being deliberately sabotaged by the UK's 'deep state', what its likely outcome is, what's going to happen with the Euro, whether the EU will collapse due to monetary failure, as well as much more, including a brief analysis of UKIP. Sponsored by: http://finlingo.com/ Music: http://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music

Welcome to the first ever episode of the MisesUK.Org Podcast. In this episode, Andy Duncan speaks to the Mises UK Director, Keir Martland, about the purpose of Mises UK and its future plans, both in the immediate short-term and in the longer term. Sponsored by: http://finlingo.com/ Music: http://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music