September 28, 2026 · 22 min

Planned Chaos

There's no stable middle ground between free-market capitalism and total state control — every half-measure, Mises argued, sets off a cascade of new controls.

This episode walks through Planned Chaos: the economic calculation problem, why Mises counted Fascism and Nazism as forms of socialism, and what his analysis still reveals about markets, power, and the conditions for a free society.