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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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Common Objections to Capitalism
Links between liberty, morality, and economic growth and moral objections to capitalism as greed. Recorded at Mises University 2010.
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Economics and Its Ethical Assumptions
Why value-subjectivism in economics doesn’t imply value-subjectivism in ethics, and might even imply the reverse. Recorded at Mises University 2010.
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Environmental and Resource Economics
Covers the problems of government intervention into pollution and natural resource use issues, emphasizing importance of private property and individual…
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Further Considerations in the Theory of Interest
Advanced lecture on the theory of pure interest, discussing its pros and cons as compared to other theories, and its relationship with capital theory. Recorded…
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Keynes and Hayek Head to Head
Graphical demonstration that relaxing three critical-but-implausible assumptions underlying Keynes’s theorizing allows the Keynesian framework to morph…
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Murray Rothbard as Academic Role Model
Recorded at Mises University 2010. Includes an introduction by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
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Rising Opposition to Collectivism by Merchants and Nobles
When Jean-Baptiste Colbert died on September 6, 1683, there was celebration throughout France. In fact, only the soldiery prevented the populace from joyfully…
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The Austrian Response to Recent Critics
Responds to criticism of Austrian business cycle theory and “Puritan” policy recommendations. Recorded at Mises University 2010.
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The Economics of Deflation
Advanced lecture on monetary mechanisms in a growing economy, stressing the central role of debt, and discussing alternative ways to deal with inflation…
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The Fallacies of Public Finance
Critical examination of the claim that justification for taxation is that there is a market failure regarding public goods and externalities. Recorded at Mises…
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The Great Depression
Looks at causes of the 1929 crash and ensuing depression, with lessons for today. Recorded at Mises University 2010.
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The Theory of Political Entrepreneurship
Why government is inherently wealth-destroying, compared to free-market entrepreneurship, the source of wealth creaton. Recorded at Mises University 2010.
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Calculation and Socialism
Recorded at Mises University 2010. Includes an introduction by Mark Thornton.
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Defending the Blackmailer
If the blackmail offer is rejected, the blackmailer may exercise his rights of free speech and publicize the secret. There is nothing amiss here. All that is…
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Interventionism
Recorded at Mises University 2010. Includes an introduction by Mark Thornton.
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On Doing Economic History
Recorded at Mises University 2010. Includes an introduction by Mark Thornton.
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Production and the Firm
Recorded at Mises University 2010. Includes an introduction by Mark Thornton.
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The Mises Circle: The Bubble Economy
Recorded at Mises University 2010. Includes an introduction by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
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Austrian Theory of the Trade Cycle
Recorded at Mises University 2010. Includes an introduction by Mark Thornton.
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Capital and Interest
Recorded at Mises University 2010. Includes an introduction by Mark Thornton.
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Entrepreneurship
Recorded at Mises University 2010. Includes an introduction by Mark Thornton.
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Monopoly and Competition
Recorded at Mises University 2010. Includes an introduction by Mark Thornton.
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The Division of Labor and Social Order
Recorded at Mises University 2010. Includes an introduction by Mark Thornton.
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The Mises Circle: Nullification
Recorded at Mises University 2010. Includes an introduction by Douglas E. French, and the presentation of the 2009 George F. Koether Free-Market Writing Award…
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The Origin and Nature of Money
Recorded at Mises University 2010. Includes an introduction by Mark Thornton.
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Was Classical Liberalism a "Strife of Interests Masquerading as a Contest of Principles"?
As Barnes noted, there were a number of "middle-class writers" who took more or less this line, but "by far the most influential" of them "was the 17th-century…
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The Life and Work of Ludwig von Mises
Recorded at Mises University 2010. Includes an introduction by Mark Thornton.
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The Marginalist Revolution
Recorded at Mises University 2010. Includes an introduction by Mark Thornton.
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Wages and Subsistence
The horror of starvation no longer terrifies men living in a capitalist society. He who is able to work earns much more than is needed for bare sustenance…
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Peasants, Rise Up! The Croquants of the 17th Century
The rebels' overriding grievance was against the tax farmers and tax officials: "It is they who have forced [the peasants] to take up arms, changing their…
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Our Miracle of Pentecost
For the first time in the history of the world, I'm able to communicate with anyone in the world instantly, regardless of language. The great barrier of all of…
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How the BP Spill is Not a Failure of Free Markets
Interviewed by special guest host, Zoe Russell, on the "Free Markets" internet radio program; 17 July 2010. [44:07]
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Samuel Edward Konkin, III: The New Libertarian
"The more controls and taxation a State imposes on its people," Sam wrote, "the more they will evade and defy them... All (non-coercive) human action committed…
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The Economy: What's Next?
Tom Kowitz and Michele Gaudin of WGSO 990AM, New Orleans, interview Professor Walter Block, 17 July 2010. [20:47]
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The Roots of Nullification
Tom Kowitz and Michele Gaudin of WGSO 990AM, New Orleans, interview Tom Woods on the topic of his book Nullification, 17 July 2010. [20:16]
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An Interview with Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
Interviewd by Susan Modaress on PressTV's "The Autograph," 14 July 2010. In this episode, Dr. Woods discusses his latest book, Nullification. [25:59]
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Gross Wage Rates and Net Wage Rates
In deciding to hire a worker, the employer does not ask himself what the worker gets as take-home wages. The only relevant question for him is, What is the…
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Louis XIV: Apogee of Absolutism
According to Louis XIV, a king is superhuman, a man who is above all and sees all and is the only one working for the "public" good, which is identical with…
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Mervyn Peake (1911–1968)
American libertarians would be particularly interested in Peake's great novel, since the perspective on the individual and society that pervades it is very…
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Defending the Litterer
There is one small, seemingly insignificant detail that destroys the case against litter and the litterer. Litter can only take place in the public domain…
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Introduction to 'Theory and History'
Man chooses ultimate ends first and then the means to attain them. These acts of choosing are determined by thoughts about which the natural sciences do not…
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8. Philosophy of History
From Theory and History Part Two, "Determination and Materialism". Narrated by John Pruden.
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9. The Concept of Historical Individuality
From Theory and History Part Three, "Epistemological Problems of History". Narrated by John Pruden.
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Catallactic Unemployment
In a free market, an unemployed man has always chosen unemployment over working in a place, at a time, in a way, or for a wage that he dislikes, writes Ludwig…
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Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
What Thoreau was defending here, in 1849, was essentially the same concept the English philosopher Herbert Spencer defended two years later, in his book Social…
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Jean-Baptiste Colbert and Louis XIV
What manner of man was this, then, this grand bureaucrat who scorned the interests of mere individuals and merchants as petty and narrow, who presumed always…
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Defending the Gypsy Cab Driver
A proper solution to the taxicab crisis is not to co-opt the movement of gypsy cab drivers by the offer to take them into the system, but rather to destroy the…
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Ten Economic Blunders from History
Take cover when you hear a political leader talking about economic affairs. You can bet a bad decision is incoming. Every so often the great ones manage to…
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Gathering Data while Washington Burns
It should come as a monumental embarrassment to future social scientists to observe that their mainstream predecessors were worse than useless for predicting…
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Work for Free
The job applications pour in by the buckets, all padded with degrees and made to look as impressive as possible. It's all just paper. But experience and…
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The Anti-Educational Effects of Public Schools
With so many state governments' budgets now under severe strain, there are serious discussions about how to cut state funding to public education. Hopefully…
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The Fallacies of Nonmonetary Explanations of the Trade Cycle
A satisfactory explanation of business fluctuations must not be built upon the fact that individual firms make bad investments. Trade-cycle theory must explain…
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Under the Rule of the Cardinals, 1624–1661
Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal de Richelieu (1585–1642), considered the mass of Frenchmen simply as animals to be prodded or coerced in ways that were…
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7. Dialectical Materialism
From Theory and History Part Two, "Determination and Materialism". Narrated by John Pruden.
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Defending the Slumlord
The owner of ghetto housing differs little from any other purveyor of low-cost merchandise, writes Walter Block. This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Jeff…