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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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Roger J. Williams and the Science of Individuality
But the most effective mechanism ever devised for making effective pooling of our faculties as easy as it can be — the free market — is also the…
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The Ideological Impregnation of Thought
To conceal the fact that Marx invented his concept of ideology expressly to discredit the economists, he elevated it to the dignity of a general…
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Austrian Economics for Capitalists and Entrepreneurs
Recorded at FreedomFest, 10 July 2010. Includes an introduction by Douglas E. French.
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Bourbon for Breakfast: Living Outside the Statist Quo
Recorded at FreedomFest, 10 July 2010. Includes an introduction by Douglas E. French.
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Nullification: Jefferson's Remedy for Tyranny, Yesterday and Today
Recorded at FreedomFest, 10 July 2010. Includes an introduction by Douglas E. French.
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The Fatal Conceit: The Myth of Limited Constitutional Government
Recorded at FreedomFest, 10 July 2010. Includes an introduction by Douglas E. French.
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The Future of the Price of Gold
Recorded at FreedomFest, 10 July 2010. Includes an introduction by Douglas E. French.
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Remarks About the Popular Interpretation of the "Industrial Revolution"
Indeed, deplorable conditions existed, but one must not blame the factory owners, who did all they could to eradicate them. These evils were caused by the…
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Belesbat, Boisguilbert, and the Natural Order of the Free Market
Free trade and free markets, through the harmony of reciprocal benefits, advance the interest and happiness of all by each seeking his own personal utility and…
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The English Civil War and the First Libertarian Movement
Whatever their motives may have been, whatever at any given moment they thought of themselves as doing, Anthony Ashley Cooper and John Locke advanced the…
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The New Deal: History, Economics, and Law
Jeffrey Tucker interviews Tom Woods on the topic of the forthcoming online Mises Academy course, "The New Deal: History, Economics, and Law," which runs from…
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The Class Struggle
This socialist or communist doctrine of "class struggle" fails entirely to take into account the essential difference between the conditions of a status or…
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ACTA: The War on Progress, Freedom, and Human Civilization
The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) contravenes every principle of civilized society, both in its content and in the nature of the proceedings…
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Mises University Awards Ceremony
Includes remarks and presentations by Douglas French, Joseph Salerno, Jörg Guido Hülsmann, and Dario Fernandez. Recorded at Mises University 2010.
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Apriorism and Positivism in the Social Sciences
Defending “methodological dualism” [the view that natural science and social science require different methods] from both its positivist critics…
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Business Cycles and Prediction
Compares Austrian and mainstream views of prediction and their relative success. Recorded at Mises University 2010
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Consumer Product Regulation
Is consumer product regulation necessary or does the free market have superior alternatives? Considers the government’s failure to provide the best level…
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Faculty Panel on Policy, Part 1
Featuring Block, DiLorenzo, Klein, Thornton, Terrell, Woods, and Murphy. Recorded at Mises University 2010.
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Faculty Panel on Policy, Part 2
Featuring Block, DiLorenzo, Klein, Thornton, Terrell, Woods, and Murphy. Recorded at Mises University 2010.
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Faculty Panel on Theory, Part 1
Featuring Garrison, Hülsmann, Long, Herbener, Gordon, and Salerno. Recorded at Mises University 2010.
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Faculty Panel on Theory, Part 2
Featuring Garrison, Hülsmann, Long, Herbener, Gordon, and Salerno. Recorded at Mises University 2010.
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Friedman and Mises on Method
Showing that Milton Friedman’s criticism of Austrian apriorism and his criticism of the Austrian rejection of unrealistic economic models are rooted in…
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International Monetary Systems
Compares and contrasts the principles and performance of alternative international monetary systems, including the classical gold standard, the gold-exchange…
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Networks, Information, and Technology
An Austrian take on network externalities, QWERTY effects, the economics of information, intellectual property, and the history of technology. Recorded at…
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Privatization of Roads
Some 40,000 people perish each year on U.S. highways, and the National Traffic Safety Administration blames this on speeding, DUI, driver error, while the real…
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Protection and the Market for Security
How a free market in law enforcement and military defense could work. Recorded at Mises University 2010.
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The Economics of Legal Tender Laws
Advanced lecture on the origins of fiat money systems, explaining the transition from commodity money to commercial bank notes and deposits, and from there to…
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The Rothbardian Theory of Taxes
In defense of tax loopholes and other things that horrify “mainstream” economists. Recorded at Mises University 2010.
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Welfare Economics
Contrast Austrian Welfare Economics with alternative approaches including Pareto Optimality and Kaldor-Hicks. Recorded at Mises University 2010.
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Economic Reasoning: The Most Common Fallacies
Logical mistakes in common economic arguments; confusions about use of ethics in economics. Recorded at Mises University 2010.
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Health Economics
Discusses difficulties presented by government intervention into medical care in two parts: the problems of regulation of pharmaceuticals, and broader…
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Mises and Rothbard in the History of Thought
Explains the contributions of Mises and Rothbard to the development of modern economic thought. Focuses especially on their great treatises, Mises’s…
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Professional Strategies and New Directions for Austrians
An open discussion of school and career options for Austrians in academia, journalism, policy analysis, and related fields. Recorded at Mises University 2010.
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Protectionism: Origin and Effects
Free trade and the international division of labor are the prerequisites for civilized society, which is why the state has always waged war against it…
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Skyscrapers and the Housing Crisis
Shows how Austrian economics is basis of Skyscraper Index, which has correctly predicted most economic and housing crises of 20th century. Recorded at Mises…
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The Corporation and the Free Market
What is the corporate form of organization, where did it come from, how does it work, and do corporations take advantage of consumers, investors, and other…
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The Economics and Politics of the Minimum Wage
Employs graphical analysis to demonstrate many ways in which US minimum-wage legislation caters to special interests and exploits voters’ lack of…
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The History of Capitalism
The truth is that capitalism has poured a horn of plenty upon the masses of wage earners, who frequently did all they could to sabotage the adoption of those…
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Time and Uncertainty
Implications of economizing time and time preference in human action; the nature of uncertainty and the role of uncertainty and risk in human action. Recorded…
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Vienna vs. Chicago on Monetary Issues
Contrasts Chicago school’s focus on “macroeconomic variations of substantial size and frequency” with Austrian school’s focus on…
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Wealth Redistribution, Domestic and International
Problems of international development aid and the domestic welfare state. Recorded at Mises University 2010.
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What Ever Happened to the Constitution?
Recorded at Mises University 2010. Includes an introduction by Mises Institute founder and chairman, Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
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An Austrian View on Monopoly and Anti-Trust Law
Austrian critique of mainstream analysis of monopoly, monopsony, and perfect competition; the logical contradictions of anti-trust law. Recorded at Mises…