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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
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Getting Out the Word: Alternative Research, Teaching, and Outreach
Recorded at the Ludwig von Mises Institute; Auburn, Alabama; 9 October 2010. [31:45]
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Government's Response to the Crisis: A Fantastic Success, for Government
Recorded at the Ludwig von Mises Institute; Auburn, Alabama; 9 October 2010.
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How (and Why) Washington Lies About Everything
Recorded at the Ludwig von Mises Institute; Auburn, Alabama; 9 October 2010.
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How Do We Know When the State is Lying?
Recorded at the Ludwig von Mises Institute; Auburn, Alabama; 9 October 2010.
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How Intellectual Property Hampers Capitalism
Recorded at the Ludwig von Mises Institute; Auburn, Alabama; 9 October 2010.
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The Financial Crisis and the Death of Macroeconomics
Recorded at the Ludwig von Mises Institute; Auburn, Alabama; 9 October 2010.
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The Recovery and Statism
Recorded at the Ludwig von Mises Institute; Auburn, Alabama; 9 October 2010.
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Friday Night Lights(out): Bank Failures in Slow Motion
Recorded at the Ludwig von Mises Institute; Auburn, Alabama; 8 October 2010.
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How This Recession Has Battered Mainstream Economists: An Austrian Opportunity
Recorded at the Ludwig von Mises Institute; Auburn, Alabama; 8 October 2010.
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How to Reject the Statist Quo
Recorded at the Ludwig von Mises Institute; Auburn, Alabama; 8 October 2010.
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Recapitalizing the Banks but Decapitating the Economy
Recorded at the Ludwig von Mises Institute; Auburn, Alabama; 8 October 2010.
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Rethinking Intellectual Property: History, Theory, and Economics
Jeffrey Tucker interviews Stephan Kinsella, instructor of the Mises Academy's forthcoming course, "Rethinking Intellectual Property: History, Theory, and…
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The Fed, Gold, and Troubled Times
Recorded at the Ludwig von Mises Institute; Auburn, Alabama; 8 October 2010.
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Sir William Petty and 'Political Arithmetic'
The leading Baconian in political economy, who was also, fittingly, a pioneer in statistics and in the alleged science of "political arithmetic," was the…
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The Rejection of Economics
Modern economics traces all human actions back to the value judgments of individuals. It never was so foolish, as Myrdal charges, as to believe that all that…
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Anarchism and Terrorism in the '90s
The wave of bombings and assassinations perpetrated by anarchists during the 1890s was largely a fiction. To some extent, it was frankly invented by…
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How Government is Unraveling Civilization by Force
Recorded at the Mises Circle in Colorado Springs, Colorado; 18 September 2010. Sponsored by Pikes Peak Economics Club.
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Limits of Limited Government Mercantilism, the Unvanquished Foe of Liberty
Recorded at the Mises Circle in Colorado Springs, Colorado; 18 September 2010. Sponsored by Pikes Peak Economics Club. The handout from the presentation is…
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Our Wise Overlords Are Just Here to Serve Us
Recorded at the Mises Circle in Colorado Springs, Colorado; 18 September 2010. Sponsored by Pikes Peak Economics Club.
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Prophet of "Empiricism": Sir Francis Bacon
The status and reputation of Sir Francis Bacon (1561–1626) is one of the great puzzles in the history of social thought. What had he actually…
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The Trouble With Democracy: Maslow Meets Hoppe
Recorded at the Mises Circle in Colorado Springs, Colorado; 18 September 2010. Sponsored by Pikes Peak Economics Club.
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Traveling Down the Road to Serfdom: History of Socialism from Marx to Obama
Recorded at the Mises Circle in Colorado Springs, Colorado; 18 September 2010. Sponsored by Pikes Peak Economics Club.
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The Chimera of the Group Mind
In their eagerness to eliminate from history any reference to individuals and individual events, collectivist authors resorted to a chimerical construction…
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The Elitist Individualism of H.L. Mencken
Mencken saw the implications of where his thinking was leading him and he acknowledged those implications frankly. "I am," he wrote in The Smart Set in 1922…
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Rudolf Rocker (1873–1958)
Rocker was awful on economics, but his focus was not on that. He wrote about nationalism and culture, and here Rocker is fantastic. "States create no culture…
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The East India Company and Its 17th-Century Defenders
Thomas Mun set forth what would become the standard mercantilist line. He pointed out that there was nothing particularly evil about the East India Company…
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The Harmony of the “Rightly Understood” Interests
Nature does not generate peace and good will. The characteristic mark of the "state of nature" is irreconcilable conflict. Each specimen is the rival of all…
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The Ignorance of the New Yorker
It is Republicans, not libertarians, who favor handouts to and special privileges for big corporations. And Republicans are not libertarians.
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Edgar Z. Friedenberg: Deference to Authority
Friedenberg was among those who regarded US participation in the Vietnam War as an abomination. He had begun expressing his outrage in print in the mid-'60s…
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The Ultimate Source of Profit and Loss on the Market
For hundreds of years, politicians (like a certain current US president) have pushed the idea that one man's profit is another man's loss. The job of the state…
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We Who Dared to Say No to War
Jeffrey Tucker interviews Tom Woods on the topic of Tom's anthology (edited with Murray Polner), 'We Who Dared to Say No to War: American Antiwar Writing from…
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Sir Thomas Smith: Mercantilist for Sound Money
Rothbard shows that Gresham's law was introduced not by Sir Thomas Gresham but by the "arrogant, boorish, and feisty" Sir Thomas Smith the Elder…
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The Critics of Marxism
It seems now that almost everyone, from journalists to academics to clergy, relies unthinkingly on Marxian doctrines. Their deterministic ideas seem impervious…
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Albert Jay Nock (1870–1945)
"As long as the easy, attractive, superficial philosophy of Statism remains in control of the citizen's mind, no beneficent social change can be effected…
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An Essay on Economic Theory
Jeffrey Tucker interviews Mark Thornton, senior fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute, and editor of the new translation of Richard Cantillon's 1755…
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Introduction to 'Strictly Confidential'
Rothbard's vast published output does not exhaust his thinking and writing. To the contrary, a large number of important items have never been published. Many…
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The Limits of Property Rights and the Problems of External Costs and External Economies
Carried through consistently, the right of property would entitle the proprietor to all the advantages that the good's employment may generate — and all…
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Tudor and Stuart Absolutism
English justifications of absolutism stressed time and again that the subjects must obey the king in any and all circumstances, whether or not the king or his…
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10. Historicism
From Theory and History Part Three, "Epistemological Problems of History". Narrated by John Pruden.
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11. The Challenge of Scientism
From Theory and History Part Three, "Epistemological Problems of History". Narrated by John Pruden.
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12. Psychology and Thymology
From Theory and History Part Three, "Epistemological Problems of History". Narrated by John Pruden.
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13. Meaning and Use of the Study of History
From Theory and History Part Three, "Epistemological Problems of History". Narrated by John Pruden.
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14. The Epistemological Features of History
From Theory and History Part Three, "Epistemological Problems of History". Narrated by John Pruden.
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15. Philosophical Interpretations of History
From Theory and History Part Four, "The Course of History". Narrated by John Pruden.
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16. Present-Day Trends and the Future
From Theory and History Part Four, "The Course of History". Narrated by John Pruden.
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Ideas and Interests
There is no such thing as interests independent of ideas, preceding them temporally and logically. What a man considers his interest is the result of his…
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The Milgram Experiment
Nonetheless, by reflecting further on Etienne de La Boetie's key insight about the politics of authority, the will to bondage, and the eager embrace of…
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Impassioned, Funny, Learned, Brilliant, Unfoolable, Relentless
These documents are a joyful alternative career of Rothbard's writings and research, and as such inherently one of the most valuable (and most fun)…
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Market Data: Power, War, and Man
Critics condemn economic theory for disregarding the role that power plays in real life. Real man, they say, is not free to choose and to act: it is not his…
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The Conflict of Ideologies: Marxism vs. the Majority
Marx and Engels, two men of unquestionable bourgeois background, hatched the class ideology of the proletarian class. They believed their adversaries could…
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Ray Bradbury's 'Fahrenheit 451'
Fahrenheit 451 acknowledges that powerful impulses toward mindless conformity and suppression of deviation exist in the population itself — that, on a…
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Wage Rates as Affected by the Vicissitudes of the Market
It is good luck for the laborer if market conditions are such that a kind of work he is able to perform is lavishly remunerated; it is chance, not personal…
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Fleury, Fénélon, and the Burgundy Circle
Men of influential and privileged status are rarely inclined to toss all their privileges aside to engage in the lonely and dangerous task of working outside…