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Bart Vanderhaegen

A podcast about the theory of knowledge applied to all fields that interest me (management, economics, physics, ...). My attempt at understanding & applying the ideas of Karl Popper (and his epistemology "Critical Rationalism") and David Deutsch (author of "The fabric of reality" and "The beginning of infinity").

  1. 11/10/2025

    Episode 174: 7 reasons why money printing is bad

    Quick tour of 7 negative effects of money printing 1) Purchasing power declines, we get poorer 2) Focus on the now instead of investing for the future 3) Boom-bust cycles 4) Picking winners and losers arbitrarily (cantillon) 5)Increases inequality 6) Finances the government deficits too easily 7) Favors industrial policy to be set by government instead of left to the market process

    15 min

  2. 10/20/2025

    Episode 173: Why I never fill out customer satisfaction surveys

    Some thoughts about the use of Customer Satisfaction surveys. Plus an alternative. Also check us out at: https://rapidideaimprovement.com

    8 min

  3. 08/27/2025

    Commercial and central banking - What I learned from Bob Murphy

    My attempt at summarising Bob Murphy's great episode on banking (mainly from the Human Action podcast)

    23 min

  4. 07/25/2025

    Episode 172: Debating socialism versus capitalism

    Some ideas on how the typical debates about capitalism versus socialism go, and what to potentially improve about them.

    13 min

  5. 06/22/2025

    Episode 171: Why the Chicago School of economics can not conclude that central banking is bad

    How the Chicago School of economics will not arrive at the conclusion that central banking may be bad

    20 min

  6. 02/26/2025

    Episode 170: The concept of a malinvestment in the Austrian Business Cycle Theory 

    How malinvestments (investments that go against the time preference of consumers but are undertaken nevertheless) are caused by monetary policy and how they cause in return a transition from boom to bust in the economic cycle

    20 min

  7. 02/08/2025

    Episode 169: Is decarbonisation an effective strategy?

    Decarbonisation can (and should) be evaluated in terms of how effectively it reaches its goal, or in other words, how well it solves the problem it purports to solve.

    18 min

  8. 12/26/2024

    Episode 168: Why it is irrational to not even consider looking into Austrian Economics

    In the science of economics, there are different schools of thought, they all give different answers to economic problems how is prosperity caused in a society, under conditions of scarcity. Some schools will emphasize the role of government more than others, … Each school has a position on the relative importance of production versus consumptions to generate prosperity, .. also they have positions on how consumers behave (rational / contextual behavioural/ choosing means to satisfy ends, ….) Now you can compare all the different positions of each school and then make up your mind what school to follow But there is a more fundamental criterion if you want to figure out what schools are really relevant and which ones are less so, and that criterion is the methodology Austrian Economics is different from all other schools in terms of methodology

    18 min
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A podcast about the theory of knowledge applied to all fields that interest me (management, economics, physics, ...). My attempt at understanding & applying the ideas of Karl Popper (and his epistemology "Critical Rationalism") and David Deutsch (author of "The fabric of reality" and "The beginning of infinity").

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  • Creator
    Bart Vanderhaegen
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2025
  • Episodes
    174
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Bart Vanderhaegen
  • Show Website
    Rapid Idea Improvement