Ep. 0168: Mark Thornton on Red Tide & Skyscrapers

In this DHP episode, CJ talks to economist Mark Thornton. Mark is Senior Fellow at the Mises Institute. He serves as the Book Review Editor of the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics. His publications include The Economics of Prohibition (1991), Tariffs, Blockades, and Inflation: The Economics of the Civil War (2004), The Quotable Mises (2005), The Bastiat Collection (2007), An Essay on Economic Theory (2010), The Bastiat Reader (2014), and his latest, The Skyscraper Curse and How Austrian Economists Predicted Every Major Crisis of the Last Century (2018).

Join CJ & Mark as they discuss:

• A recent article Mark wrote about the current red tide problems along Florida’s Gulf coast, and how this is significantly exacerbated by the government’s environmental, agricultural, and trade policies
• Mark’s latest book, The Skyscraper Curse: And How Austrian Economists Predicted Every Major Economic Crisis of the Last Century, which explains the link between record-setting skyscrapers and economic downturns using Austrian business cycle theory

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External Links

• Link to The Skyscraper Curse on mises.org – get free electronic copies or order hard copies
• Mark’s recent article about the current red tide problem on Florida’s Gulf Coast
• Mark’s full bio

Internal Links

• DHP Ep. 0141: Draining the Swamp: The War on the Everglades
• DHP Ep. 0143: Rise of the Cane Kingdom, Part 1
• DHP Ep. 0144: Rise of the Cane Kingdom, Part 2
• DHP Ep. 0110: Twenty-One Key Concepts & Theories, Part 2 (in which I discuss some of the economic theories relevant to this episode)