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Mises Media
Podcasts, interviews, lectures, narrated articles and essays, and more. This is the Mises Institute's primary online media catalog.
Episodes
Mises MediaEconomics and Property Rights: Alternative Approaches
Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 23 July 2014.
Mises MediaEnvironmental and Resource Economics
Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 23 July 2014.
Mises MediaFDA and Consumer Welfare
Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 23 July 2014.
Mises MediaHayek and Keynes: Head to Head
Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 23 July 2014.
Mises MediaThe Time Preference Theory of Interest and Its Critics
Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 23 July 2014.
Mises MediaEveryday Logic of Economics
Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 23 July 2014.
Mises MediaThe Anarcho-Pacifism of Leo Tolstoy
Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 22 July 2014.
Mises MediaThe Austrian Theory of the Business Cycle
Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 23 July 2014.
Mises MediaThe Economics of Fractional Reserve Banking
Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 22 July 2014.
Mises MediaThe Place of Finance and Financial Markets in a Free Society
Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 21 July 2014.
Mises MediaAn Evening with Judge Napolitano
Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 21 July 2014. Includes an introduction by Joseph T. Salerno.
Mises MediaAustrian Capital Theory
Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 21 July 2014.
Mises MediaCalculation and Socialism
Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 22 July 2014.
Mises MediaCareers for Austrians
A special lunchtime seminar. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 22 July 2014. The video discussed during this presentation may be viewed…

Mises MediaGovernment Statistics
A private seminar for graduate students. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 21 July 2014.
Mises MediaHow the Drug War Drives Child Migrants to the US Border
It is not a coincidence that an increasing percentage of child migrants to the US border are from areas devastated by the American drug war, writes Mark…

Mises MediaMonopoly, Competition, and Antitrust
Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 22 July 2014.
Mises MediaPraxeology: The Method of Economics
Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 21 July 2014.

Mises MediaSubjective Value and Market Prices
Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 21 July 2014.
Mises MediaThe Birth of the Austrian School
Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 21 July 2014.
Mises MediaThe Division of Labor and Social Order
Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 21 July 2014.
Mises MediaThe Role of Austrian Economics in the Liberty Movement
The opening lecture of the 2014 Mises University. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 20 July 2014.
Mises MediaWilliam Norman Grigg: Against the Police State
Jeff Deist and Will Grigg discuss "police state Keynesianism," how the once embryonic American police state became overt, how military equipment, personnel…
Mises MediaIndustrial Policy Is Still a Loser
Stiglitz wants to revitalize industrial policy through greater government intervention to favor certain technologies over others, writes Stewart Dompe and Adam…
Mises MediaJean-Baptiste Say: An Underrated Revolutionary
Say’s insights continue to challenge interventionist economists to this day. Everl Schoorl’s new biography sheds new light on Say’s life and…
Mises MediaHow To Have Law Without Legislation
Rothbard explores Bruno Leoni’s call for a return to the ancient traditions and principles of "judge-made law" as a method of limiting the state and…
Mises MediaBrian Doherty: Reporting the Revolution
Jeff Deist and Brian Doherty discuss Brian's role as both a participant in—and observer of—libertarian circles, the impact of Austrian economics on…
Mises MediaWhat Is the Rate of Return on the Louisiana Purchase?
The true benefits of the Louisiana and Alaska Purchases are less clear than their value to pro-government propaganda, writes David Howden and Daniel Atienza…
Mises MediaThe Jeffersonian Secessionist Tradition
In examining newspaper editorials of the nineteenth century and Jefferson's own views of secession, Thomas DiLorenzo explores the once-widespread belief, both…
Mises MediaA Sham Recovery
Interviewed by host Alan Butler, Mark Thornton discusses a wide variety of timely topics.
Mises MediaPrivate Defense?
Interviewed by host Tom Woods, Bob Murphy discusses why we don't, in fact, need Nancy Pelosi for anything.
Mises MediaWhy the Mainstream Fails to Understand Recessions
Many Austrians saw the bust coming, and thanks to Austrian economics, we also better understand the details of how booms and busts work, writes Hal Snarr. This…
Mises MediaHow Government Forces the Poor Into Black Markets
Industrious low-income people often must turn to doing business in the black market to avoid the burdensome costs of government regulations, writes Peter St…
Mises MediaShinzo Abe and the Three Magic Arrows
Shinzo Abe’s so-called “three arrows” of monetary stimulus, fiscal stimulus, and structural reform, have crippled the Japanese economy…
Mises MediaWhen Steelers Steal
In a free-market economy, firms threatened with competition often respond by searching for ways to increase efficiencies, attempting to lower costs and…
Mises MediaJustin Raimondo: Against the War Machine
Jeff Deist and Justin Raimondo discuss the early history of the modern libertarian movement, Justin's time working with Murray Rothbard on libertarian…
Mises MediaThe Hobby Lobby Decision and Private Property
Peter Klein discusses property rights, privilege, and free markets, in light of the U.S. Supreme Court's recent Burwell v. Hobby Lobby decision. Peter G. Klein…
Mises MediaWhy Timid Reforms of Central Banks Won’t Work
It is now clear that the Fed and the European Central Bank are hard-wired to inflate the money supply while encouraging banks to make excessively risky loans…
Mises MediaEarly Catholic Social Teaching: The State as Robber
Many Christians call for legislation to regulate, control, and ban activities that they deem as social vices, writes Bryan Cheang. This audio Mises Daily is…
Mises MediaDr. Mark Thornton: Wikipedia and Spontaneous Order
Jeff Deist and Mark Thornton discuss Mark's recent experience as an opponent of the drug war at the Oxford Union debating society, his influence on Wikipedia…
Mises MediaWhy the Fed Is Nothing to Celebrate
For 100 years, the Fed has served to protect the interests of powerful banks through inflationary monetary policy, writes Benjamin Wiegold. This audio Mises…
Mises MediaEurope’s Mario Draghi Starring in Bernanke’s Show
ECB’s Mario Draghi has taken over from Ben Bernanke as the world’s most enthusiastic money printer, writes Brendan Brown. This audio Mises Daily is…
Mises MediaMy Social Justice Is Better Than Yours
Socialism can only be maintained when one group imposes its will by force on all other groups, writes D.W. MacKenzie. This audio Mises Daily is narrated by…
Mises MediaGovernment Roads, Subsidies, and the Costs of Fracking
A result of a complex system of subsidies and other government favors, it is unclear that fracking would be sustainable in a truly free marketplace, writes Sal…
Mises MediaThe Fed Distorts Everything
Jeff Deist discusses how the Fed creates a perilous landscape in which there is no honest pricing—everything has been distorted—even at the…
Mises MediaLimited Government Is a Vain Hope
Given the many failures of the state, many will mistakenly seek a solution in “limited government," writes David Gordon. This audio Mises Daily is…
Mises MediaTurning Piketty Right Side Up
In his new book, Capital In the Twenty-First Century, Piketty fails to understand how savings and investment work, writes George Reisman This audio Mises Daily…
Mises MediaEven the Feds Admit Minimum Wages Cause Unemployment
A little-known loophole in federal law allows people with disabilities to be employed below the minimum wage, writes Nicholas Freiling. Why the exemption? This…
Mises MediaEric Peters: Anarcho Road Warrior
Eric Peters discusses with Jeff Deist the automobile as a symbol of libertarian autonomy, why statists love public transportation, how moronic government…
Mises MediaThe European Central Bank’s House of Cards
The European Central Bank’s recent move to negative interest rates is a sign that the ECB is hitting the panic button, writes Frank Hollenbeck. This…
Mises MediaYou Didn’t Consent to be the State’s Victim
Defenders of government coercion often claim that residence within a state’s boundaries imply consent to be taxed, writes Walter Block. This audio Mises…
Mises MediaHiggs, Hoppe, and the Cycle of the State
The vastly greater productivity of a relatively-free populace makes for greater per capita tax revenue, writes Dan Sanchez. This audio Mises Daily is narrated…
Mises MediaEverything Popular Is Wrong: Malinvestment and Consumers
Any government intervention in the economy, such as, loan programs, regulations, and subsidies, creates malinvestments, writes Dayne Girard. This audio Mises…
Mises MediaWhy Foreign Politicians Hate Your Freedom
Governments don’t like it when neighboring countries offer freedoms not available at home, writes Ryan McMaken. This audio Mises Daily is narrated by…
Mises MediaProfits Do Not Make Health Care Unaffordable
Government intervention in health care has driven up health care prices. Mainstream journalists choose to focus on profits and “greed” as the…
Mises MediaHow Smugglers Made America
Smuggling has often played a pivotal role in important events and episodes in American history, writes Mark Thornton. This audio Mises Daily is narrated by…
Mises MediaJim Bovard: Libertarian Muckraker
Jim Bovard talks with Jeff Deist about his incendiary career as a journalist, the American people as Mencken's "Booboisie", and why the Nanny State has him…