Mutual Exchange Radio

Welcome to Mutual Exchange Radio, a project of the Center for a Stateless Society. I am your host, Zachary Woodman. Today's guest—for the third time on MER—is Kevin Carson. Kevin probably needs no introduction, but he is a senior fellow of the Center for a Stateless Society (c4ss.org) and holds the Center's Karl Hess Chair in Social Theory. He is an anarchist without adjectives, heavily influenced by autonomism and the new municipalist movements. His written work includes Studies in Mutualist Political Economy, Organization Theory: A Libertarian Perspective, The Homebrew Industrial Revolution: A Low-Overhead Manifesto, and The Desktop Regulatory State all of which are freely available online. Carson has also written for such print publications as The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty and a variety of internet-based journals and blogs, including Just Things and The Art of the Possible, as well as his own blogs, Mutualist Blog and Tea, Earl Grey, Hot. Today, I Kevin is on to discuss his 2021 study on the Methodenstreit between economists from the Austrian school, such as Carl Menger, and economists from the German Historical School, such as Gustav Schmoller. We discuss Carson's views on the methodology of the social sciences in general and political economy in particular as well as his views on interest, landlordism, and the American Institutionalist school.

Zachary Woodman, Alex McHugh, and Nathan Goodman join Cory Massimino for a panel on Trump's authoritarian actions on immigration, the history of immigration control and regulation, and what you can do to resist the administration's authoritarian xenophobia.   Show notes and Sources: Zachary Woodman's Segment on the Trump Administration's Actions on Immigration So Far Trump's Executive Order on the Alien Enemies Act Venezuelan Couple in Virginia Case Thrown out of Civil Court ICE disappears 48 Undocumented Migrants DC Circuit Court Judge: Nazis got more Due Process under Alien Enemies Act Legal History of Migrant's Constitutional Rights Migrants Deported for Non-Gang-Related Tattoos 90% of Migrants Deported to El Salvador Have No Criminal Record Trump's Appeal up to the Supreme Court, Supreme Court's Rulings on the matter So Far Trump Defying Court Orders Mike Johnson Floats Dissolving District Courts that Rule Against Trump on Administration House passes bill restricting district court judges from issuing nationwide injunctions MAGA Supporters Send Death Threats to Judges Trump Administration's Letter Intimidating Northwestern Law Clinic The Trump Administration's Populist Arguments in Courts Thom Homan: "What was Laken Riley's Due Process?" Trump Admin Executive Order Revoking Citizenship for Thousands of Migrants Trump Administration Pausing Green Card Applications Filipino Woman from Washington Disappeared by Border Patrol Canadian Woman Held in Custody by CBP Canada, Germany, UK Issuing Travel Warnings against United States Legal Migrant from Tampa Being Extradited to El Salvador  Columbia Student Hunted by ICE for Her Palestinian Disagreement Tufts Student Abducted by Unmarked Immigration Officials Trump Admin Revokes Legal Status for Hundreds of Student Visa Holders Three Deaths in ICE Custody at Krome Detention Center in Miami Texas Migrants Being Deported to Guantanamo Bay Luis Alberto Castillo Rivera's Legal Deposition Kristi Noem's Propaganda Video in El Salvador, which Violates National Law Opening of Migrant Detention Center in Michigan CBP's 100-Mile Border Zone ICE Targeting US Citizens Mahmoud Khalil's Public Statement of His Detention Louisiana Judge Rules Against Mouhamad Khalil, Citing Foreign Policy Authority Trump's Birthright Citizenship Executive Order and Why it's Unconstitutional Nathan's Segment on the History of US Border Policy: Coyne and Hall: Tyranny Comes Home Border Militarization and Domestic Institutions Federal Officers Use Unmarked Vehicles To Grab People In Portland, DHS Confirms Drones on the Border: Efficacy and Privacy Implications  Reece Jones, Nobody is Protected: How the Border Patrol Became the Most Dangerous Police Force in the United States US Citizens Deported on Accident Pre-Trump Kenyon Zimmer: Faces of the First Red Scare: Documenting Red Scare Deportees Alex McHugh's Segment on Resisting ICE: Tool to Find ICE Contractors Meet the ICE Contractors We Have Rights: Document and Witness ICE/CBP Abuse of Power Borderlands Relief Collective Border Kindness Al Otro Lado Woomera Quaker Meeting Raided in UK Nathan Goodman, et al: Collective Action in the Sanctuary Movement: Polycentric Protection of Central American Asylum Seekers Immigrant Legal Justice Center-Know Your Rights National Immigrant Justice Center-Know Your Rights ACLU-Know Your Rights, Immigrant Rights  

This episode is hosted by C4SS's Elinor Ostrom Chair in the Study of Self Governance, Nathan Goodman. Nathan is joined by Christopher Coyne and Abigail Hall for a deep dive into the authors' new book, How to Run Wars, A Confidential Playbook for the National Security Elite, available from June 18th on Amazon, or through the Independent Institute. E-book versions are available for Kindle, Apple iBooks, and Barnes and Noble Nook and links are available in the show notes below.  Buy on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1598133926/theindepeende-20 Apple iBooks: https://books.apple.com/us/book/how-to-run-wars/id6502372918 Barnes & Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/how-to-run-wars-christopher-j-coyne/1145071631?ean=9781598133943  Christopher Coyne is a Professor of Economics at George Mason University, the Associate Director of the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center, and the Director of the Initiative for the Study of a Stable Peace (ISSP) through the Hayek Program. He is the Co-Editor of The Review of Austrian Economics and of The Independent Review. Abigail R. Hall is an Associate Professor in Economics at the University of Tampa in Tampa, Florida. She is an affiliated scholar with the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and a Senior Fellow with the Independent Institute in Oakland, California. She is a Non-Resident Fellow with Defense Priorities and a Public Choice and Public Policy Fellow with the American Institute for Economic Research. She earned her PhD in Economics from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.  

This episode of MER features Alex McHugh interviewing John Cavanaugh of the digital-privacy organization, The Plunk Foundation. The Plunk Foundation promotes digital data privacy through education, advocacy, and policy recommendations, and by developing privacy tools and tech. Our conversation ranges from the deeper discussion on consent and privacy as related to self-ownership, to the more practical question of how to ethically navigate today's digital landscape and the potential for privacy-focused tech.  John Cavanaugh on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/privacy-evangelist/  Email: john@plunkfoundation.org Support C4SS podcasts on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c4ssdotorg

This episode brings Austrian economics into the gender identity discussion. We get into a lot of messy and fascinating questions about gender, identity, and social structures.  Read the paper here: https://cosmosandtaxis.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/malamet_novak_ct_vol11_iss11_12_epub.pdf Mikayla Novak is senior fellow with the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. She is the author of Inequality: An Entangled Political Economy Perspective (2018) and Freedom in Contention: Social Movements and Liberal Political Economy (2021). Her research work has been published in a range of academic journals, including Research Policy, Constitutional Political Economy, Review of Austrian Economics, Journal of Institutional Economics, and Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice. Mikayla's research interests include Austrian and evolutionary economics, public choice, entangled political economy, economic sociology, public finance, and regulatory economics. And listeners will recognize Akiva Malamet, a returning guest to the show. Akiva previously appeared on our June 2020 episode of Mutual Exchange Radio to discuss his work on Nationalism and Identity Formation. He is a contributing editor at Unpopulist and an MA candidate at Queens University, and a long-time friend of C4SS. 

Cory Massimino chats with Jason Lee Byas about public choice theory, reparations (for slavery and other injustices), and war. Jason Lee Byas is a fellow at the Center for a Stateless Society and a PhD student in Philosophy at the University of Michigan. His academic work focuses on punishment (and its alternatives), rights theory, and justice beyond the state.

A wide-ranging interview with acclaimed anarchist activist and musician, scott crow (https://www.scottcrow.org/). Alex McHugh hosts, with the first half focusing on scott's music and media project, eMERGENCY heARTS, and the latter on his previous work on theories of liberatory community armed self-defense.  * Content note: scott and I talk about the murder of Garrett Foster in the second half of this episode. It comes up in a discussion about the strategic value (or lack thereof) of open carry at protests. 

In this episode of Mutual Exchange Radio, Tux discusses their unique take on cryptocurrency, the connection between markets and anarchism, and being anti-capitalist in a capitalist world. Tux Pacific (they/she) is a cryptographer, anarchist, and the founder of Entropy, a decentralized custodian for crypto. Their crypto-inclusive perspective has been shaped by their non-traditional background as a trans person and a market post-left-ish anarchist. You can reach Tux on Twitter @__tux or via email tux@entropy.xyz 

In our final episode for the season, Ash P. Morgans talks to host Alex McHugh about egoism, anarchism, and religion. This conversation was an excellent cap-off to our Mutual Exchange symposium on egoism and anarchism and continues some of the discussions that came up throughout the symposium. Particularly, we explore the intersections of ethics, morality, anarchism, and religion from the egoist or Stirnerite perspective. 

Elizabeth Nolan Brown is a senior editor at Reason magazine, a co-founder of Feminists for Liberty, and a journalism lecturer at the University of Cincinnati. In this episode of Mutual Exchange Radio, Elizabeth discusses abortion, sex work, moral panics, conspiracies, feminism, libertarianism, and more.

This month on Mutual Exchange Radio, we are joined by Eric Fleischmann, leading an informative and inspiring conversation about their comprehensive Laurance Labadie archival project, Labadie's special relevance for the market anarchist tradition, their study on Historical Materialism and more. Eric Fleischmann (he/they) is an anarchist indebted to communistic and continental thought but engaged primarily in the traditions of mutualism, American individualist anarchism, and modern left-libertarianism while applying a background in anthropology and philosophy to help build the solidarity economy in unceded Wabanaki territory on Turtle Island. He has been involved in various capacities with numerous leftist, left-leaning, and labor-oriented organizations—generally ones that promote forms of politico-economic decentralization and democratization and/or degrees of left unity.

This month, we are joined by Logan Marie Glitterbomb, leading an awesome conversation about the fundamentals of Agorism, as well as its lesser known forms and environmentalist potential. We're also talking about Mardi Gras, Logan's legal incident, gun control and more. A Catholic anarchist-without-adjectives, Logan Marie discovered anarchism through the punk scene in high school and went on to join the Industrial Workers of the World in college where she studied theatre arts. She is a former editor, writer, and co-publisher of the queer anarchist news 'zine Pink&Black, co-founder of the Libertarian Anti-Fascist Committee and the Libertarian Socialist Caucus of the Libertarian Party, member of the Libertarian Socialist Caucus of the DSA, co-founder of the anarchist Mardi Gras krewe Krewe de Main and their festival Coup de Gras, and current organizer with the IWW's Freelance Journalists Union. She spends her free time performing comedy, cosplaying, and writing comics. Here you can find her work and support her legal fund: https://loganglitterbomb.com/ https://agorafest.wordpress.com/ https://gogetfunding.com/legal-defense-for-logan-glitterbomb/  

Cathy Reisenwitz joins Mutual Exchange Radio to discuss feminism, bodily autonomy, BDSM, power, and all things Sex and the State.  Cathy is a writer with bylines in The Week, Newsweek, Forbes, the Daily Beast, VICE Motherboard, Reason magazine, Talking Points Memo, Ravishly, Kink and Code and other publications. She is the Head of Content at a tech startup and VP of Comms for San Francisco Sex-Positive Democratic Club and a regular contributor to Exponents Magazine. Check out her newsletter, Sex and the State: https://cathyreisenwitz.substack.com/

Abigail joins Mutual Exchange Radio to discuss the connections between complexity economics, systems theory, emergent order, science fiction, and more. Dr. Abigail Devereaux is a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Economic Growth and Assistant Professor of Economics at Wichita State University. She's also affiliated with the Independent Institute, the American Institute of Economic Research, and NYU's Classical Liberal Institute. Abigail holds degrees in math in physics, both from Boston University, and had a career in high-tech focusing on complex systems science before getting her economics PhD from George Mason University. She fielded in complexity economics and Austrian economics. Her work these days is interdisciplinary and focused on two research programs: the mathematical and social implications of accelerating technological innovation, and the emergence of spontaneous orders.

Host Alex McHugh interviews one of the founders of the radical humanitarian project Operation Solidarity, which is helping to organize anarchist resistance to the invasion as well as humanitarian support networks. If you're able to support this project with funding or material aid, please click through the linktree below. Support Operation Solidarity: https://linktr.ee/operation.solidarity "War and Anarchists: Anti-Authoritarian Perspectives in Ukraine," CrimethInc: https://crimethinc.com/2022/02/15/war-and-anarchists-anti-authoritarian-perspectives-in-ukraine  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zemlya.volya  Squat Autonomia: https://en.squat.net/2014/07/13/kharkiv-ukraine-opening-of-a-political-squat/ 

MER host Alex McHugh interviews C4SS Russian translator Citizen Ilya on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, anarchist resistance to war, and what things look like on the ground in Russia.  We intend this to be a two-part series. An interview with some of the folks behind the anarchist humanitarian project for Ukraine, Operation Solidarity, is forthcoming in the next week or so.  Links: The Black Headquarters / Resistance Committee (https://linktr.ee/Theblackheadquarter) Operation Solidarity / Project Solidarity (https://linktr.ee/operation.solidarity) "Donbas Recognition? No Thanks" (https://c4ss.org/content/56313)

In this month's episode, Alex McHugh interviews Sarah Skwire, Senior Fellow and Director of Communications at Liberty Fund about the importance of studying literature and language, and why social scientists should pay attention to works of fiction and literary history.  Sarah's work can be found most often in the following places: The "Reading Room" on OLL: oll.libertyfund.org/reading_room Adam Smith Works:  www.adamsmithworks.org EconLog: www.econlib.org/econlog 

This year, C4SS Fellow Cory Massimino joins Alex McHugh as a host for Mutual Exchange Radio. For this first episode of the season, we sat down together to talk about intellectual influences, the upcoming podcast season, and C4SS's forthcoming Mutual Exchange Symposium on Egoism and Anarchism.  See the Mutual Exchange Symposium starting 2/2/2022 at: https://c4ss.org/content/category/mutual-exchange

In our final episode for the year, Alex McHugh interviews a return guest to the show Nathan Goodman. We focus on Nathan's recent paper, published with Chris Coyne, "U.S. Border Militarization and Foreign Policy: A Symbiotic Relationship" - https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3961152 Nathan is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Economics at New York University, affiliated with the Program on the Foundations of the Market Economy. He earned his Ph.D. in economics at George Mason University, where he was a Ph.D. fellow with the Mercatus Center and a Graduate Fellow with the F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. Nathan's research broadly focuses on political economy, applied microeconomics, market process economics, New Institutional Economics, and defense economics. He analyzes how alternative institutional arrangements shape the provision of security. 

For the 10-year anniversary of what many would consider our foundational book, C4SS Mutual Exchange Coordinator Cory Massimino interviewed Markets Not Capitalism editors Charles Johnson and Gary Chartier. They discuss the legacy and impact of MNC ten years on! If you've not read it, you can find the free .pdf and audiobook at: c4ss.org/content/12802