Vacuous Vocation Matthew Geiger

Dr Whyte is a philosopher and an author of several works of philosophy, economics, and public policy. He is the author of Quack Policy, Free Thoughts, A Load of Blair and Crimes Against Logic. He has published more than two hundred opinion columns in newspapers including The Wall Street Journal, The Times, and The Financial Times. Dr Whyte won the prestigious Bastiat Prize for Economic Journalism.

As a young philosophy don at the University of Cambridge, Dr Whyte was awarded a prize for the best academic article in the world by a philosopher under the age of thirty.



00:00 Introduction
3:48 Creating Value
5:13 How to find what is meaningful in life
9:25 Thomas Sowell and the Critique of Modern Economics: A Holistic Approach
15:32 Human Action and Austrian Economics
22:20 The Pursuit of Happiness: Attitude and Life Satisfaction
26:25 The Impact of Modern Culture on Mental Engagement
34:35 The Significance of Achievement and Struggle
41:08 The Challenges of Academic Writing
47:25 Navigating the PhD Writing Process
51:36 Exploring Truth and Belief
55:06 Challenges to Free Speech and Information Skepticism

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00:00 Introduction and Rejecting the Epithet
05:07 Debating the Motivations Behind the Civil War
09:03 The Intellectual Culture of the Old South
12:21 Reevaluating the Civil War
23:13 The True Motivations Behind the Support for the Civil War
25:20 The Left's Perception of the Civil War
34:57 Christian Evangelical Support for Israel
52:17 The Role of Shame in Society
01:00:58 The Emergence of the Psychiatric and Psychological Professions
01:01:36 Inventing and Regulating Concepts: Homosexuality and Alcoholism
01:02:35 Locking Up Prostitutes and Orphans: Reformatories and Enforcement
01:03:34 Mass Conscription and the Rise of Industrialized Armies
01:04:45 Social Engineering and the Use of Shame
01:09:44 The Role of City Managers in Progressive Cities
01:14:30 Foucault's Theory of Biopolitics: Studying and Managing Populations
01:19:30 The State's Objective: Maintaining and Regulating Populations
01:23:04 Approaching the Work of Anne Applebaum and Timothy Snyder Critically

This episode with Michael Wimer we discuss history, economics, politics, culture, philosophy, and religion. @lil_rumba

This episode discusses the recent election of President Javier Milei in Argentina, anarchy and capitalism, anarchy and health, money, socialism, optimism, and much more, please enjoy.

This podcast was re-uploaded from Brandon Loschiavo's podcast "The Performance Playbook Ep.16: A Happiness Hypothesis Through Economics".

Edward Fuller, MBA, is a graduate of the Leavey School of Business.

https://mises.org/profile/edward-w-fuller?page=1