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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 MediaEmma Goldman (1869–1940)
When Emma switched her intellectual allegiance from Johann Most to Peter Kropotkin, she lost her commitment to violence but kept her commitment to communism…
Mises Media1. J.B. Say: The French Tradition in Smithian Clothing
From An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume II. Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.
Mises Media1. J.B. Say: The French Tradition in Smithian Clothing (continued 2)
From An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume II. Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.
Mises Media1. J.B. Say: The French Tradition in Smithian Clothing (continued)
From An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume II. Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.
Mises Media2. Jeremy Bentham: The Utilitarian as Big Brother
From An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume II. Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.
Mises Media2. Jeremy Bentham: The Utilitarian as Big Brother (continued)
From An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume II. Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.
Mises Media3. James Mill, Ricardo, and the Ricardian System
From An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume II. Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.
Mises Media3. James Mill, Ricardo, and the Ricardian System (continued)
From An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume II. Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.
Mises Media4. The Decline of the Ricardian System, 1820-48
From An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume II. Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.
Mises Media4. The Decline of the Ricardian System, 1820-48 (continued 2)
From An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume II. Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.
Mises Media4. The Decline of the Ricardian System, 1820-48 (continued 3)
From An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume II. Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.
Mises Media4. The Decline of the Ricardian System, 1820-48 (continued)
From An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume II. Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.
Mises Media5. Monetary and Banking Thought, I: The Early Bullionist Controversy
From An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume II. Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.
Mises Media5. Monetary and Banking Thought, I: The Early Bullionist Controversy (continued 2)
From An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume II. Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.
Mises Media5. Monetary and Banking Thought, I: The Early Bullionist Controversy (continued)
From An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume II. Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.
Mises Media6. Monetary and Banking Thought, II: The Bullion Report and the Return to Gold
From An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume II. Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.
Mises Media6. Monetary and Banking Thought, II: The Bullion Report and the Return to Gold (continued)
From An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume II. Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.
Mises Media7. Monetary and Banking Thought, III: The Struggle Over the Currency School
From An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume II. Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.
Mises Media7. Monetary and Banking Thought, III: The Struggle Over the Currency School (continued 2)
From An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume II. Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.
Mises Media7. Monetary and Banking Thought, III: The Struggle Over the Currency School (continued)
From An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume II. Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.
Mises MediaThe Role Played by Unemployed Factors of Production in the First Stages of the Boom
The beginning of a new credit expansion runs across remainders of preceding malinvestment and malemployment, not yet obliterated in the course of the…
Mises Media3. The Quest for Absolute Values
From Theory and History, Part One, "Value". Narrated by John Pruden.
Mises Media4. The Negation of Valuation
From Theory and History, Part One, "Value". Narrated by John Pruden.
Mises Media5. Determination and Its Critics
From Theory and History, Part Two, "Determination and Materialism". Narrated by John Pruden.
Mises Media6. Materialism
From Theory and History, Part Two, "Determination and Materialism". Narrated by John Pruden.
Mises MediaThe Grandiose Failure of François du Noyer
If monopoly companies for specific products or specific areas of trade were good, reasoned François du Noyer, sieur de Saint-Martin, why not go one better? Why…
Mises MediaDefending the Rate Buster
There is as much work to be done as there are unfulfilled desires. Therefore, no matter how much work the rate buster completes, he cannot possibly exhaust or…
Mises MediaVince Miller and the International Libertarian Movement
"In 1982, Vince moved on to building a nonprofit organization to host a series of international libertarian conferences — the Libertarian International."
Mises Media1. Judgments of Value
From Theory and History, Part One, "Value". Narrated by John Pruden.
Mises Media2. Knowledge and Value
From Theory and History, Part One, "Value". Narrated by John Pruden.
Mises MediaIntroduction to Theory and History
Introduction to Theory and History. Narrated by John Pruden.
Mises MediaPreface to Theory and History
Preface to Theory and History by Ludwig von Mises. Narrated by John Pruden.
Mises MediaThe Market Economy as Affected by the Recurrence of the Trade Cycle
People rebel against the insight that the malinvestment and overconsumption of the boom period are the cause of the bust. They refuse to believe that such an…
Mises Media14. A Free Market “CENTRAL BANK”
From Part I of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The History of Money and Banking Before the Twentieth…
Mises Media15. A False Start
From Part I of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The History of Money and Banking Before the Twentieth…
Mises Media16. Operation Begin
From Part I of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The History of Money and Banking Before the Twentieth…
Mises Media17. The Country Banks Resist
From Part I of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The History of Money and Banking Before the Twentieth…
Mises Media18. Suffolk's Stabalizing Effects
From Part I of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The History of Money and Banking Before the Twentieth…
Mises Media19. The Stuffolk Difference
From Part I of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The History of Money and Banking Before the Twentieth…
Mises Media20. The Stuffolk's Demise
From Part I of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The History of Money and Banking Before the Twentieth…
Mises Media21. The Civil War
From Part I of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The History of Money and Banking Before the Twentieth…
Mises Media22. Greenbacks
From Part I of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The History of Money and Banking Before the Twentieth…
Mises Media23. The Public Debt and the National Banking System
From Part I of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The History of Money and Banking Before the Twentieth…
Mises Media24. The Post Civil War Era: 1865-1879
From 'A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II'. Read by Matthew Mezinskis.
Mises Media25. The Gold Standard Era with the National Banking System, 1879-1913
From Part I of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The History of Money and Banking Before the Twentieth…
Mises Media26. Prices, Wages, and Real Wages
From Part I of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The History of Money and Banking Before the Twentieth…
Mises Media27. Interest Rates
From Part I of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The History of Money and Banking Before the Twentieth…
Mises Media28. A Burst in Productivity
From Part I of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The History of Money and Banking Before the Twentieth…
Mises Media29. Capital Formation
From Part I of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The History of Money and Banking Before the Twentieth…
Mises Media30. 1896: The Transformation of the American Party System
From Part I of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The History of Money and Banking Before the Twentieth…
Mises MediaBarthélemy de Laffemas: The First Major French Mercantilist
Barthélemy de Laffemas comes to our attention because of the dozens of execrable pamphlets he wrote on behalf of the mercantile system that he was helping to…
Mises MediaEric Arthur Blair aka George Orwell (1903–1950)
One doesn't have to read far into the works of George Orwell to discover that he had no understanding of economics whatsoever and was not personally a…
Mises MediaLiving Outside the Statist Quo
The state makes a mess of everything it touches. Examples from the book include how and why the "hot" water in our homes became lukewarm and what can be done…
Mises MediaOur Greatest Presidents?
In the 1940s and early '50s, a school of establishment historians existed who made it their business to extol the virtues of the "Great Presidents." This was a…
Mises MediaThe Monetary or Circulation-Credit Theory of the Trade Cycle
The British Currency School did not criticize the multifarious projects to lower or abolish interest by means of a banking reform. They tacitly ratified the…
Mises MediaBuilding the Ruling Elite
The system of mercantilism needed no high-flown "theory" to get launched. It came naturally to the ruling castes of the burgeoning nation-states. Theory came…
Mises MediaDefending the Speculator
The truth of the matter is that, far from causing starvation and famines, it is the speculator who prevents them. And far from safeguarding the lives of the…
Mises MediaVoltairine de Cleyre (1866–1912)
Freethought, she wrote, was "the right to believe as the evidence, coming in contact with the mind, forces it to believe. This implies the admission of any and…
Mises MediaThe Impact of the BP Oil Spill
Bob DelGiorno of the "First News" radio program on WWL, New Orleans, interviews Professor Walter Block, 7 June 2010. [7:08]
Mises MediaCredit Expansion vs. Simple Inflation
There are instances in which the methods of genuine credit expansion are used for an utterly different purpose: to allow the government to take advantage of…