084: Mises v Marx: A Discussion with Peter Boettke

In this episode, Professor Peter Boettke, Professor of Economics and Philosophy at George Mason University, discusses the thinking of Ludwig von Mises and Karl Marx. Peter highlights the underlying theses behind both economists arguments – liberalism and socialism.

Read the first chapter to Living Economics by Peter Boettke here.

Economics:

In this episode, Peter mentions: Austrian economics, Marxism, liberalism, socialism, the Diamond-Water Paradox, instability of capitalism, private ownership, communal ownership, monopoly, financial crisis, leverage, 

Economists:

In this episode, Peter mentions: Ludwig von Mises, Karl Marx, Milton Friedman, Joan Robinson, Rosa Luxemburg, Elinor Ostrom, Adam Smith, F. A. Hayek, Milton Friedman, Paul Samuelson, John Cochrane, Paul Krugman, Joseph Stiglitz and J. K. Galbraith.

Books:

• Living Economics: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow by Peter J. Boettke
• The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
• Karl Marx and the Close of His System  by Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk
• Mises: The Last Knight of Liberalism Jörg Guido Hülsmann
• Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception by George A. Akerlof and Robert Schiller
• After War: The Political Economy of Exporting Democracy by Christopher J. Coyne
• Doing Bad by Doing Good: Why Humanitarian Action Fails by Christopher J. Coyne
• The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents–The Definitive Edition by F. A. Hayek
• How the Dismal Science Got Its Name: Classical Economics and the Ur-Text of Racial Politics by David M. Levy
• The Soul of Man Under Socialism by Oscar Wilde
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

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