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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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Mr. Libertarian, Murray N. Rothbard
Five figures starred in Radicals for Capitalism by Brian Doherty: Mises, Hayek, Friedman, Rand, and Rothbard. But, by the 1970s the irrepressible Rothbard…
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Heckle and Jekyll: How Murray Rothbard Got the Fed's Story Right
Recorded at Jekyll Island, Georgia; 27 February 2010. [27:43]
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My Battle Against the Fed
Presented by Ron Paul at the "Birth and Death of the Fed" conference at Jekyll Island, Georgia, 27 Febuary 2010. Includes an introduction by Mises Institute…
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The Source and Workings of the Latest Crisis
Recorded at Jekyll Island, Georgia; 27 February 2010. [29:27]
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Did Keynesian Economics Win the Battle of Ideas?
Recorded at Jekyll Island, Georgia; 26 February 2010.
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Only the Austrians Can Explain Depressions
Recorded at Jekyll Island, Georgia; 26 February 2010.
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The Macroeconomics of the Fed: Mainstream and Austrian
Recorded at Jekyll Island, Georgia; 27 February 2010.
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Appendix: Some Questionable Examples of Patents and Copyrights
From the audio version of Against Intellectual Property. Narrated by Jock Coats.
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Conclusion
From the audio version of Against Intellectual Property. Narrated by Jock Coats.
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IP and Property Rights
From the audio version of Against Intellectual Property. Narrated by Jock Coats.
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IP as Contract
From the audio version of Against Intellectual Property. Narrated by Jock Coats.
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Libertarian Perspectives on IP
From the audio version of Against Intellectual Property. Narrated by Jock Coats.
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Property Rights: Tangible and Intangible
From the audio version of Against Intellectual Property. Narrated by Jock Coats.
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Summary of IP Law
From the audio version of Against Intellectual Property. Narrated by Jock Coats.
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Thomas Paine: From Pirate to Revolutionary
Paine became a privateer in 1753 to locate and rob enemy ships in order to escape his family business - corset making. The blunt but brilliant Paine was helped…
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10. Capital, Interest, and Profit
Lecture 10 of 16 from Austrian Economics: An Introductory Course, presented at New York Polytechnic University in 1972.
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11. Interest and Capitalization
Lecture 11 of 16 from Austrian Economics: An Introductory Course, presented at New York Polytechnic University in 1972.
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12. Conservation and Property Rights
Lecture 12 of 16 from Austrian Economics: An Introductory Course, presented at New York Polytechnic University in 1972.
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13. Monopoly and Competition
Lecture 13 of 16 from Austrian Economics: An Introductory Course, presented at New York Polytechnic University in 1972.
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14. Money and Prices
Lecture 14 of 16 from Austrian Economics: An Introductory Course, presented at New York Polytechnic University in 1972.
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15. Money and the Balance of Payments
Lecture 15 of 16 from Austrian Economics: An Introductory Course, presented at New York Polytechnic University in 1972.
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16. Banking and the Business Cycle
Lecture 16 of 16 from Austrian Economics: An Introductory Course, presented at New York Polytechnic University in 1972.
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2. Supply and Demand
In this lecture in 1972, supply and demand concepts included: preferences of consumers, prices, quantity, quality, elasticity, equilibrium, marginal utility…
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3. Advertising
Advertising has always had bad press with economists, but consumers discover that a product either works and works well, or it doesn't. Consumer wants are not…
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4. Price Controls
Price controls — triangular interventions — occur when an intervener (generally government) either compels a pair of people to make an exchange or prohibits…
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5. The Profit Motive
Lecture 5 of 16 from Austrian Economics: An Introductory Course, presented at New York Polytechnic University in 1972.
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6. Costs of the Firm
Lecture 6 of 16 from Austrian Economics: An Introductory Course, presented at New York Polytechnic University in 1972.
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7. Pricing of the Factors of Production
Lecture 7 of 16 from Austrian Economics: An Introductory Course, presented at New York Polytechnic University in 1972.
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8. Labor and Unions
Lecture 8 of 16 from Austrian Economics: An Introductory Course, presented at New York Polytechnic University in 1972.
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9. Labor
Lecture 9 of 16 from Austrian Economics: An Introductory Course, presented at New York Polytechnic University in 1972.
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Bimetallic Nightmare
Congress decreed that gold and silver dollars should be interchangeable and put upon the Treasury a mandate to keep them equal in value. How? By what magic?…
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Government Against Capitalists
The governments of almost all countries are engaged in a campaign against the capitalists. They are intent upon expropriating them by means of taxation and…
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The Economics of Calvin and Calvinism
John Calvin's main contribution to the usury question was in having the courage to dump the prohibition altogether. He had only contempt for the Aristotelian…
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The Polish Disease
Recorded on 31 January 1981 at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Special thanks to Robert Romero for creating and sharing this important audio recording…
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Yevgeny Zamyatin: Libertarian Novelist
Ultimately, he and the woman are caught, imprisoned, and tortured. In the end, he is sincerely repentant of his crimes and is completely devoted to the…
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1. Choice, Utility, and Demand
Economics begins with the concepts of scarcity and choice. If there was no scarcity it would all be free. Resources like time and materials need to be…
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11. The Structure of Production
As factors of production, supply and demand of labor, land and capital will determine how much the producer will get out of this process. This process occurs…
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12. Labor and Unions
In order for anyone to make ethical judgments, he must know the consequences of his various actions. In questions of union actions displacement or unemployment…
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13. The Labor Market
Economists can say little about population and its size, despite the gloomy views of Malthus. More people are a good thing because of the division of labor…
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14. Interest Rates and Course Review
The time market determines the pure rate of interest. Price per unit of time may be wages or rent. The interest income will be earned by the capitalist who has…
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Gold and Bank Secrecy
The gold standard is not a game but a social institution. Its working does not depend on the preparedness of any people to observe some arbitrary rules. It is…
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10. Government Cartels
The only cartels that have lasted have been government cartels. There is no essential difference between a cartel and an ordinary corporation or partnership…
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4. Price Controls in the Oil Industry
The disappearance of oil has been forecast every decade. Prices were overlooked. When the price is high it is more profitable to look for oil. Total reserves…
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5. Minimum Price Controls
Thou shalt not sell a certain product or service below a certain price, e.g. wheat, cotton, corn, cheese, sugar. This will result in an artificial unsold…
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6. Government Licensing of Industry and Minimum Wage
The peanut butter crunch was in 1980. Crop acreage and production was cut down by 45% by government price support, import quotas, and cartelizing of the…
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7. Mid-Term Review and The Theory of the Firm
The objective of the corporate firm is to maximize profits and avoid losses - the same objective of the free market. But the costs are paid out before the…
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8. The Firm
Business men must make sure they can cover their costs by incoming revenue. The production function will yield a certain quantity of a product. The firm…
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9. Monopoly and Competition
The words monopoly and competition have been changed. Competition meant rivalry or competing, either active or potential. Businesses do not like this. Monopoly…
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Conspiracy Theories, History, and The State
Obama's White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs is run by Cass Sunstein. Sunstein and Vermeule's paper on conspiracies theories, e.g. JFK, TWA…
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Isabel Paterson: Early Libertarian
Autodidactic influential libertarian, Isabel Paterson is best known for The God of the Machine (1943). Ayn Rand contributed ideas to it but continued to learn…
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An Investor's Introduction to Austrian Economics
Recorded in Vienna, Austria; 25 May 1988. [36:32]
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An Interview with Walter Block
Interviewed by Judge Andrew Napolitano on the "Freedom Watch" program, 27 January 2010. [7:05]
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Foreword to The Man versus The State
From The Man versus The State. Narrated by Jock Coats.