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Podcasts, interviews, lectures, narrated articles and essays, and more. This is the Mises Institute's primary online media catalog.
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Karl Hess and the Death of Politics
"Some may wonder why it took Hess 20 years to notice all this, why it took a man this obviously intelligent so long to grasp that the Republicans were pretty…
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Mercantilism as the Economic Aspect of Absolutism
As the economic aspect of state absolutism, mercantilism was of necessity a system of state-building, of big government, of heavy royal expenditure, of high…
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Is Healthcare a Basic Human Right?
When government assigns positive rights to others, some of us will be forced to pay for it. No right to healthcare is a legitimate right. You have a right to…
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Technology and the Market
Tech advances only happen under freedom, they do not just happen. Collectives do not make technology, only individuals do. Eliminating taxes would encourage…
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The Core of What Economics Teaches
Austrian economists do have a realistic way of looking at human action. A policy of getting further into debt when you are already deeply in debt just doesn't…
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What is Sound Money?
Sound money even sounds heavier than unsound money. Gold and silver originated on the market and reigned as the preferred money because the metals were easily…
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Why Free Markets Matter
A free market is just people making voluntary exchanges. Woods makes an example out of the creation of a ham sandwich. Welfare and warfare undermine the…
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Jean Bodin: Apex of Absolutist Thought in France
While Montaigne paved the way for the dominance of absolutist thought in France, surely the founder or at least the locus classicus of 16th-century French…
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William Godwin (1756–1836)
"I ought to exercise my talents for the benefit of others; but that exercise must be the fruit of my own conviction; no man must attempt to press me into the…
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Zamyatin Foresaw Totalitarianism and the Politics of Sex
We, this satirical and heretical dystopian futurist book, ends by resolving whether or not the protagonist can find penultimate happiness in the cocoon of the…
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The Skeptic as Absolutist: Michel de Montaigne
It is a favorite conceit of modern, 20th-century liberals that skepticism, the attitude that nothing can really be known as the truth, is the best groundwork…
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Are We a Self-Hating Commercial Society?
In a few short hours, I was assaulted ten times with the demand that I display social consciousness. Can we all please cut the sham and go back to plain old…
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More Free or Less Free?
Do we have perennial libertarian problems, like losing our freedoms year after year? The long view of liberty shows that overall Americans are more free…
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1. The History of Money and Banking Before the Twentieth Century
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…
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10. The Second Bank of the United States, 1816-1833
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…
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11. The New Postal System
Pages 56-57 in the text, as narrated by Floy Lilley. From Part 1 of Conceived in Liberty, Volume IV: "The War Begins."
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12. New York Fumbles in the Crisis
Pages 58-61 in the text, as narrated by Floy Lilley. From Part 1 of Conceived in Liberty, Volume IV: "The War Begins."
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13. The Suppression of the Tories Begins
Pages 65-70 in the text, as narrated by Floy Lilley. From Part 2 of Conceived in Liberty, Volume IV: "Suppresing Tories."
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2. Shilling and Dollar Manipulations
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…
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3. Government Paper Money
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…
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4. Private Bank Notes
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…
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5. Revolutionary War Finance
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…
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6. The Bank of North America
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…
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7. The United States: Bimetallic Coinage
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…
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8. The First Bank of the United States, 1791-1811
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…
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9. The War of 1812 and Its Aftermath
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…
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Giovanni Botero: The First Malthusian
The overall view of Botero is that the morality and justification for actions of the prince are diametrically opposed to the principles that must guide the…
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John Holt: Libertarian Outsider
"Holt, in effect, reasoned his way to libertarianism from his relentless, dogged analysis of what worked and didn't work in education, in the schoolroom."…
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How Bernanke Is Using the Printing Press to Win Friends and Influence People
Recorded from The Mises Circle in Phoenix, Arizona, April 10th, 2010. Sponsored by James M. Rodney.
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The Command Economy: Surging Forward into the Past
Recorded at The Mises Circle in Phoenix, Arizona, on April 10th, 2010. Sponsored by James M. Rodney. Includes introductory and closing remarks by Douglas E…
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The Cultural Upheaval of Loose Money
Recorded from The Mises Circle in Phoenix, Arizona, April 10th, 2010. Sponsored by James M. Rodney.
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Bernanke and Gono: Modern Central Bankers
Recorded from The Mises Circle in Phoenix, Arizona, April 10th, 2010. Sponsored by James M. Rodney.
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War and Inflation: Financing the Empire
Recorded from The Mises Circle in Phoenix, Arizona, April 10th, 2010. Sponsored by James M. Rodney. Includes an introduction by Douglas E. French.
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Some Applications of the Time-Preference Theory
Even Marx did not contest the fact that private initiative and private ownership of the means of production were indispensable stages in the progress from…
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Who Was Niccolò Machiavelli?
Machiavelli was reviled throughout Europe during the 16th century and on into the next two centuries. He was considered to be a conscious preacher of evil, a…
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Mises University
The Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics. Since 1986, it has been the essential training ground…
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Benjamin Tucker: American Individualist Anarchist
Tucker was a proponent, in the 19th century, of American individualist anarchism. He opposed war because it destroyed liberty, but he favored the allies…
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Absolutist Thought in Italy
By the 12th century, the Italian city-states had evolved a new form of government, new at least since ancient Greece. The Italian city-states became republics…
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Roger MacBride and Rose Wilder Lane: A Libertarian Legacy
Ultimately, when Rose died — it was in 1968, she was 81 — Roger MacBride inherited everything she owned, including the fabulously valuable rights…
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The Civil War in America
It is remarkable that the Constitution was little trusted or admired by the wisest and most illustrious of its founders, and that its severest and most…
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Skyscrapers and Business Cycles, or How You Can Predict the Next Economic Crisis
Presented to the Auburn University Economics Club; Auburn, Alabama, on 25 March 2010. Includes a Question and Answer period.
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The West's Available Capital Goods
Economics is about human choice and action. The praxeological concept of time is not the concept of physics or biology. It refers to the sooner or the later as…
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Religious Radicalism and Absolutist Moderation in 16th-Century France
Calvin's embattled followers, enjoying rising aspirations against non-Calvinist rulers, developed justifications for resistance to evil rulers. These were…
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The Federal Reserve as a Confidence Game: What They Were Saying in 2007
Printing up money and lowering the value of all dollar-denominated assets while simultaneously benefiting political friends and accomplices is surely a fraud…
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Timothy Ferris and Lynn Hunt: The Cause of Liberty
Ferris' book The Science of Liberty: Democracy, Reason, and the Laws of Nature is about the symbiotic relationship between science and liberalism. His…
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International Monetary Cooperation
The international gold standard works without any action on the part of governments. It is effective, real cooperation of all members of the world-embracing…
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George Buchanan: Radical Calvinist
Over two decades before the Spanish Jesuit de Mariana, George Buchanan arrived, for the first time, at a truly individualist theory of natural rights and…
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The American Revolution
The motive was empire on one side and self-government on the other. It was a question between liberty and authority, between government by consent and…
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Standards and Textbooks
Textbook commissions, especially from Texas, decide what ideas will be within any book. Biases are evident. Thomas Jefferson was dropped. Yet, these American…
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The Stimulus Scam
Fake booms and their consequent busts are directly linked to financial cycles, which in turn reflect the swings in money creation. Fiat money lies at the heart…
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That Hayek-Keynes Rap Video
Jeffrey Tucker interviews John Papola. Recorded 13 March 2010. [18:02]
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A Case for the Civil Law over Common Law: Response to Hayek
Recorded March 13th, 2010, at the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.
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A Constitutional Mystery: Did the Founding Fathers Intend to Bar Admission of Illegally Seized Evidence?
Recorded March 13th, 2010, at the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.
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America’s First Business Cycle: A Reappraisal of the Recession of 1797 and the Macroeconomic Events of the 1770s
Recorded March 13, 2010, at the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.
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Community Norms for Punishment and Restitution
Recorded March 13, 2010, at the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.
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Economics and Literature: A Tribute and Celebration
Presented by Paul A. Cantor at the 2010 Austrian Scholars Conference. Includes the presentation of the annual O.P. Alford Prize in Libertarian Scholarship…
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Fides et Ratio, Liberty, and its Welfare Relevance
Recorded March 13th, 2010, at the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.
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Hayek on Spontaneous Order and Constitutional Design
Recorded March 13, 2010, at the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.
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Hobbes, Minarchism, and Anarchy
Recorded March 12, 2010, at the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.