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Oct 7, 2025 • 30min

Chapter 6. The Pretense of Knowledge

Hayek for the 21st Century: Essays in Political Economy brings together Friedrich Hayek’s most powerful essays on the knowledge problem, competition, socialism, and honest money—showing why his ideas are more relevant today than ever. From his devastating critiques of central planning to his insights on decentralized knowledge and market signals, Hayek dismantles the myths of state control with clarity and force. These essays offer essential tools for understanding liberty, spontaneous order, and the perils of political overreach. Narrated by Bill Anciaux.
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Oct 7, 2025 • 29min

Chapter 7. Choice in Currency: A Way to Stop Inflation

Hayek for the 21st Century: Essays in Political Economy brings together Friedrich Hayek’s most powerful essays on the knowledge problem, competition, socialism, and honest money—showing why his ideas are more relevant today than ever. From his devastating critiques of central planning to his insights on decentralized knowledge and market signals, Hayek dismantles the myths of state control with clarity and force. These essays offer essential tools for understanding liberty, spontaneous order, and the perils of political overreach. Narrated by Bill Anciaux.
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Oct 7, 2025 • 38min

Chapter 2. Why the Worst Get on Top

Hayek for the 21st Century: Essays in Political Economy brings together Friedrich Hayek’s most powerful essays on the knowledge problem, competition, socialism, and honest money—showing why his ideas are more relevant today than ever. From his devastating critiques of central planning to his insights on decentralized knowledge and market signals, Hayek dismantles the myths of state control with clarity and force. These essays offer essential tools for understanding liberty, spontaneous order, and the perils of political overreach. Narrated by Bill Anciaux.
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Oct 7, 2025 • 46min

Chapter 1. The Intellectuals and Socialism

Hayek for the 21st Century: Essays in Political Economy brings together Friedrich Hayek’s most powerful essays on the knowledge problem, competition, socialism, and honest money—showing why his ideas are more relevant today than ever. From his devastating critiques of central planning to his insights on decentralized knowledge and market signals, Hayek dismantles the myths of state control with clarity and force. These essays offer essential tools for understanding liberty, spontaneous order, and the perils of political overreach. Narrated by Bill Anciaux.
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Oct 7, 2025 • 11min

Introduction to Hayek for the 21st Century: Essays in Political Economy

Hayek for the 21st Century: Essays in Political Economy brings together Friedrich Hayek’s most powerful essays on the knowledge problem, competition, socialism, and honest money—showing why his ideas are more relevant today than ever. From his devastating critiques of central planning to his insights on decentralized knowledge and market signals, Hayek dismantles the myths of state control with clarity and force. These essays offer essential tools for understanding liberty, spontaneous order, and the perils of political overreach. Narrated by Bill Anciaux.
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Oct 7, 2025 • 33min

Chapter 3. The Use of Knowledge in Society

Hayek for the 21st Century: Essays in Political Economy brings together Friedrich Hayek’s most powerful essays on the knowledge problem, competition, socialism, and honest money—showing why his ideas are more relevant today than ever. From his devastating critiques of central planning to his insights on decentralized knowledge and market signals, Hayek dismantles the myths of state control with clarity and force. These essays offer essential tools for understanding liberty, spontaneous order, and the perils of political overreach. Narrated by Bill Anciaux.
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Oct 7, 2025 • 14min

Mises on Separating Morality and State

The recent assassination of Charlie Kirk has focused attention on political violence. Ludwig von Mises, not surprisingly, understood that tying morality to politicized state helps create the climate where political violence is prevalent. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/mises-separating-morality-and-state
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Oct 6, 2025 • 19min

Why Taxes Were So Hated in the Middle Ages

During the Middle Ages, taxation was considered to be appropriate only as an extreme measure in times of emergency, and as a last resort. Kings were expected to subsist on revenues from their own private property. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-taxes-were-so-hated-middle-ages
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Oct 6, 2025 • 9min

Individualism and the Violence of the Identitarian Left

Leftists seek to create a new society that supposedly is peaceable. However, they also celebrate violence done against political opponents, something that Murray Rothbard understood as undermining every supposed peaceful goal they claim to be pursuing. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/individualism-and-violence-identitarian-left
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Oct 4, 2025 • 9min

Vitamins vs. Technocracy: Lessons from MK-7

On the latest episode of Minor Issues, Mark Thornton uses vitamin K2 (MK-7) as a case study in how technocracy goes wrong, elevating cutting-edge findings and bureaucracy over experience, incentives, and real-world diets. Mark explains why K2 is linked in emerging research to bone health, arterial calcification, and even neurodegenerative conditions, and highlights a paradox: many food sources rich in K2 (beef, eggs, butter, chicken liver, European cheeses, salami) are officially discouraged, while “approved” sources (natto, kefir, sauerkraut) are niche. The takeaway isn’t medical advice, it’s a critique of a compliance-driven health regime that sidelines decentralized knowledge and choice. Be sure to follow Minor Issues at https://Mises.org/MinorIssues

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