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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 Media2.03. Exchange and the Division of Labor
From Man, Economy, and State, narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.

Mises Media2.05. Determination of Price: Equilibrium Price
From Man, Economy, and State, narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.

Mises Media2.07. Speculation and Supply and Demand Schedules
From Man, Economy, and State, narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.
Mises Media2.08. Stock and the Total Demand to Hold
From Man, Economy, and State, narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.
Mises Media2.09. Continuing Markets and Changes in Price
From Man, Economy, and State, narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.
Mises Media2.10. Specialization and Production of Stock
From Man, Economy, and State, narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.
Mises Media2.11. Types of Exchangeable Goods
From Man, Economy, and State, narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.
Mises Media2.12. Property: The Appropriation of Raw Land
From Man, Economy, and State, narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.
Mises Media2.13. Enforcement Against Invasion of Property
From Man, Economy, and State, narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.
Mises MediaKeynes and the Pyramids
Keynes loved the pyramids. The attempt to rehabilitate the reputation of the pyramid project is part of a larger cultural effort to prop up the respectability…
Mises MediaSix Fundamental Errors of the Current Orthodoxy
What they don't understand: aggregation, relative prices, interest rates, capital structure, money pumping, and regime uncertainty, writes Robert Higgs. This…
Mises MediaCapitalism Is Life Itself
The fate of the consumer is the fate of civilization itself. Every person influences what is done with the world's resources. Call it consumerism. Call it free…
Mises MediaHow Do People Make Economic Decisions?
The economic point of view holds that logic reveals that certain means - like socialism -simply cannot produce certain desired results such as social…
Mises MediaMoney Is Work
Farmer Boy was probably written by Rose Wilder Lane in the mid-40s. Money is work is a phrase from this book. Money is hard work and much time. Government…
Mises MediaThe Life of an International Economics Student
Go experience other countries. Travel will improve your mindset and your character. Travel does broaden. A high school seminar in Auburn, Alabama; 29 April…
Mises MediaThe Life of an International Economics Student
Milan, Italy, is not the most famous of Italian cities, but it is Lucia's home. Her interest in history drew her to Mises Institute in order to do research…
Mises MediaThe Tale of Two Invisible Hands
Most Americans do not know what the source of wealth is and they don't know what causes economic problems. Self-interest promotes the general interest of…
Mises MediaAmerica Aflame
Goldfield's book fails at revisionism. The author does not grapple with the truth that the Civil War was not about slavery, that war does not boost an economy…
Mises MediaThe "Old Lady" Hasn't a Clue
A recorded mini lecture and video display purported to explain this mysterious phenomenon (mysterious to the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street, anyway). I knew…
Mises MediaIntroduction to 'Liberty Defined'
I use the term "liberal" without irony or contempt, for the liberal tradition in the true sense was devoted to freeing people from the shackles of the state…
Mises MediaMoney Can't Buy You Economic Prosperity
We cannot eat money. We cannot wear money. We cannot live in money. Money can't buy you love, writes Shawn Ritenour. This audio Mises Daily is narrated by…
Mises MediaJane Jacobs (1916–2006)
Jacobs was a libertarian whether she knew it or not. The conclusions she drew were Misesian, just in a different way. Jacobs has also been compared to Hayek…
Mises MediaPre-Fascist Italy: Tax and Borrow and Spend
The balanced budget passed away definitely in 1911, not to return again until a revolution had swept from the people of Italy their freedom, writes John T…
Mises MediaThe Discovery of the Self: The Theory of Subjective Value
Menger went on to accomplish a radical break with tradition: a thoroughly individualistic view of humanity and of the world, writes Eugen-Maria Schulak and…
Mises MediaThe Moral Imperative of the Market
If it is true that prices are signals which enable us to adapt our activities to unknown events and demands, it is evidently nonsense to believe that we can…
Mises MediaIslam without Extremes: A Muslim Case for Liberty
Jeffrey Tucker interviews Mustafa Akyol, a Turkish writer and political commentator, on the topic of Islam and Liberty. Recorded at the Ludwig von Mises…
Mises MediaWilliam Graham Sumner (1840–1910)
Neither Sumner nor Herbert Spencer were social Darwinists - a moniker hung upon them both. What Social Classes Owe to Each Other answers that question with to…

Mises Media10. A Copernican Shift
From Part III: Officer, Gentleman, Scholar. Narrated by Paul Strikwerda. [1:05:52]
Mises Media11. A Treatise on Socialism
From Part III: Officer, Gentleman, Scholar. Narrated by Paul Strikwerda. [1:16:48]
Mises Media12. Winds of War
From Part III: Officer, Gentleman, Scholar. Narrated by Paul Strikwerda. [2:10:20]
Mises Media13. A System of Political Philosophy
From Part IV: Mises in His Prime. Narrated by Paul Strikwerda. [1:13:17]



Mises Media17. A Treatise on Economics
From Part V: Mises in Geneva. Narrated by Paul Strikwerda. [50:32]
Mises Media18. Émigré in New York
From Part VI: Mises in America. Narrated by Paul Strikwerda. [1:18:14]
Mises Media19. Birth of a Movement
From Part VI: Mises in America. Narrated by Paul Strikwerda. [1:12:42]

Mises Media20. Human Action and Its Consequences
From Part VI: Mises in America. Narrated by Paul Strikwerda. [1:35:30]
Mises Media21. The Epistemological Case for Capitalism
From Part VI: Mises in America. Narrated by Paul Strikwerda. [1:11:25]
Mises Media22. Fragmentation of the Movement
From Part VI: Mises in America. Narrated by Paul Strikwerda. [43:06]

Mises Media3. Alma Mater Rudolphina
From Part I: Young Ludwig. Narrated by Paul Strikwerda. [1:07:18]
Mises Media4. Fin de siècle Economic Science
From Part II: The Austrian School. Narrated by Paul Strikwerda. [2:13:36]
Mises Media5. Early Professions
From Part II: The Austrian School. Narrated by Paul Strikwerda. [1:03:14]
Mises Media6. Treatise on Money
From Part II: The Austrian School. Narrated by Paul Strikwerda. [1:21:47]
Mises Media7. The Great War
From Part III: Officer, Gentleman, Scholar. Narrated by Paul Strikwerda. [1:17:28]
Mises Media8. Nation, State, and Economy
From Part III: Officer, Gentleman, Scholar. Narrated by Paul Strikwerda. [46:07]
Mises Media9. 1919
From Part III: Officer, Gentleman, Scholar. Narrated by Paul Strikwerda. [1:25:54]

Mises MediaMeet My Benefactor
I happened to sit down next to a man last week who has been my benefactor for my entire life and the large part of his, and yet we had never met. In fact…
Mises MediaPreface to 'Mises: The Last Knight of Liberalism'
Preface Narrated by Paul Strikwerda. [9:13]
Mises MediaSilver Circle: The Independent Film and Graphic Novel
The Federal Reserve and its unsound fiat money allow us to do things we should not be doing. Silver Circle is an animated, feature-length, independent film…
Mises MediaSocialism: Utopia and Reality
A defector from the Soviet Union, Yuri Maltsev knows that socialism is not better than communism.Intellectuals love socialism because they imagine themselves…
Mises MediaThe Division of Labor and Finding Your Niche
Society is built upon each person doing what they do best. Developed economies have very specialized skills. This division of labor allows us each to do what…
Mises MediaWhy Minimum Wage is Keeping You from Getting a Job
A job seeker may not have the skill set that is worth $7/hour minimum wage. The minimum wage law keeps that individual from being employed. Yet, that person…
Mises MediaWhy Rich Families Hate Capitalism
Often the dispersion of a fortune starts already in the lifetime of the businessman when his buoyancy, energy, and resourcefulness become weakened, writes…