The Economics for Business Podcast

A podcast based on the winning principle that entrepreneurs need only know the laws of economics plus the minds of customers. After that, apply your imagination.

E4E Podcast Cover for Episode #91 Featuring Curt Carlson

91. Curt Carlson on Innovation Champions

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Austrian economics sees an economy in motion, perpetually renewing itself. Economic agents (firms, customers, investors) constantly change their actions and strategies in response to outcomes they mutually create. This further changes the outcome, which requires them to adjust afresh. Entrepreneurs live in a world where their beliefs and strategies are constantly being “tested” for survival within an outcome these beliefs and strategies create. It’s complex.
E4E Podcast Cover for Episode #90 Featuring Per Bylund

90. Per Bylund On A New Austrian Business Paradigm: Facilitation Of Value

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In our project to make a useful link between Austrian economic theory and business practice, we earlier introduced the Austrian Business Model. This is a recipe to make a profit – a template adaptable to any individual firm.
E4E Podcast Cover for Episode #89 Featuring Jeff Booth

89. Jeff Booth: How Entrepreneurs Can Harness The Power Of Technological Deflation

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What is technological deflation, and how can entrepreneurs take advantage of it? By combining already available and easily accessible technologies to facilitate the accelerated information flows that constitute value in the 21st Century: higher quality, faster speeds, lower costs. Jeff Booth explains.
E4E Podcast Cover for Episode #88 Featuring David. K Hurst

88. David K. Hurst: Managing People-As-Ends and not People-As-Means.

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In many situations, the complexities in managing a diverse and layered team of people is to view individuals as ends and not means.
E4E Podcast Cover for Episode #87 featuring Professor Matthew McCaffrey

87. Professor Matthew McCaffrey: The Austrian Definition of Capital and its Application for the Health of Your Business

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Key Takeaways and Actionable Insights An understanding of the…
E4E Podcast Cover for Episode #86 featuring Allan Branch

86. Allan Branch: Entrepreneurs Are Authors Writing Their Own Story

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"Entrepreneurship is like sailing through changing weather, winds, waves and tides.” - Allan Branch
E4E Podcast Cover for Episode #85 featuring Dr. Per Bylund

85. Dr. Per Bylund on the Austrian School versus Business School

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Why do business schools exist? Dr. Bylund wonders if business schools are facing an existential problem.
E4E Podcast Cover for Episode #84 Featuring Bob Luddy of CaptiveAire

84. Bob Luddy: Five Active Processes of Austrian Economics That Helped Me Build One of America’s Most Successful Entrepreneurial Businesses

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Bob Luddy is founder and CEO of CaptiveAire (CaptiveAire.com), the US market leader in commercial kitchen ventilation systems. It’s a $500MM+ business with 1,000+ employees and a 40+-year success record. Bob explains to Economics tor Entrepreneurs how these principles of Austrian economics, applied as active processes, played a part.
E4E Podcast Cover for Episode #83 Featuring Clay Miller

83. Clay Miller: An Entrepreneurial Journey to New Lands, New Organizational Designs and New Value

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Clay Miller got a Commodore 64 (you can look it up!) when he was 11 years old, and his interest in computing, software and writing code started there.
E4E Podcast Cover for Episode #81 Featuring Dr. Keith Smith of the Free Market Medical Association

81. Dr. Keith Smith: The Free Market Medical Association Brings Entrepreneurship to Medical Services

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Dr. Keith Smith, Co-Founder of the The Free Medical Association (FMMA.org), is an entrepreneur and free market warrior who is undaunted by the seeming scale of his innovation task: to bring to healthcare the kind of customer experience only entrepreneurial free markets can deliver (see "Pillars of the Free Market Medical Association" PDF).
E4E Podcast Cover for Episode #80 Featuring Clay Routledge and John Bitzan

80. Clay Routledge and John Bitzan: Entrepreneurship Brings Meaning and Purpose to Life

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The entrepreneurial life is a life of meaning and purpose. We believe that strongly, and our belief is anchored in the ethic of entrepreneurship: to serve others, making their lives better, and thereby improve one’s own life, making an entrepreneurial profit, both economic and psychic.