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Introduction to The Man versus The State
From The Man versus The State. Narrated by Jock Coats.
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J.R.R. Tolkien as Libertarian
Tolkien's Lord of the Rings is thought to be the greatest work of the 20th century with 150 million readers. The book's thesis - Evil power cannot be defeated…
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Postscript and Note on Philanthropy
From The Man versus The State. Narrated by Jock Coats.
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Preface to The Man versus The State
From The Man versus The State. Narrated by Jock Coats.
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Best Books Criticizing Keynesian Economics
Presented by David Gordon at "The Failure of the Keynesian State," the Mises Circle in Houston, sponsored by Jeremy S. Davis. Recorded Saturday, 23 January…
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Failure in a Keynesian World
Presented by Douglas E. French at "The Failure of the Keynesian State," the Mises Circle in Houston, sponsored by Jeremy S. Davis. Recorded Saturday, 23…
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Keynesian Predictions vs. American History
Presented by Thomas E. Woods, Jr. at "The Failure of the Keynesian State," the Mises Circle in Houston, sponsored by Jeremy S. Davis. Recorded Saturday, 23…
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Prepare for the Worst
Presented by Congressman Ron Paul at "The Failure of the Keynesian State," the Mises Circle in Houston, sponsored by Jeremy S. Davis. Recorded Saturday, 23…
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The Misesian Vision
Presented by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. at "The Failure of the Keynesian State," the Mises Circle in Houston, sponsored by Jeremy S. Davis. Recorded Saturday…
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3. The Determination of Prices
Price is determined by the equilibrium price and the equilibrium quantity. If your good is not selling, you lower the price. If your goods fly off the shelves…
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1. Intro to Micro: Demand and Supply
Microeconomics is concerned with the actions of individuals. The focus of macroeconomics is entire sectors of the economy. All good macro will have micro…
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2. Value
Why is it that things like bread and water which have high use values are cheap while on the other hand luxury items like diamonds are very expensive? This…
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10. Cartelization of Banking: The Fed
Bernard Baruch ran WWI as an absolute collectivist controller. The Federal Reserve was created in 1913 by Morgan men to cartelize the banking system and limit…
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11. Woodrow Wilson and World War I
Where did Benjamin Strong - head of the Fed - come from? Rothbard continues to reveal the individuals who shaped our world and wars. Morgan's empire brought us…
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12. The Great Cooperation
Public housing, planned cities, government power plants, and coerced unionism were all part of the great cooperation between corporations and government…
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13. Politics and the Power Elite
With WWII, Morgans get their war in Europe; Rockefellers get their war in Asia. Both sides are happy. Rockefellers take over foreign relations and create the…
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9. The Progressive Era?
Progressive movement came in in 1900 to eliminate political parties. Technocrats and bureaucrats take over political power. Rural versus urban. Eliminate…
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A Toast to Lysander Spooner
Spooner was an American individualist anarchist with radical opinions on everything. His true calling was writing pamphlets and books on issues of the day. His…
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The Roosevelt Myth
From backstage, the New Deal was an incredible confusion, unable, as Mr. Flynn thinks, to make sense even to itself; and the man least competent to make sense…
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8. Regulation and Public Utilities
State dominated cartels used intellectuals as apologists for the government. Big unionism was to transmit orders to the working class. Public utilities were…
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3. The Decline of Laissez-Faire
Economics is a constant fight between the market and the government. The railroad cartel did not work against the free market even with ideal conditions…
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4. The Rise and Fall of Monopolies
Petroleum entered the industrial scene in 1859 with John D. Rockefeller's hard work. As the first manufacturing corporation, Standard Oil created a monopoly in…
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5. Pietism and the Power Brokers
When pietists shift to the Republican party, they form the progressive movement of 1900-1920. Rockefeller- McKinley forms alliances with power brokers like…
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6. Tariffs, Inflation, Anti-Trust and Cartels
The Sherman Act outlawed restraint of trade. The Clayton Act added to that. Anti-Trust hysteria came in the 1940-50s. Whatever you did would be considered…
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7. Theodore Roosevelt: Master Reformer
Assassinations in American are only by lone nuts. No one who benefits is ever suspected, like Lyndon Johnson. The progressive period saw a re-alliance of…
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1. The Civil War and Its Legacy
How does government intervene in the economy? What are the consequences? What are the motivations behind passing these interventions? The lives of the people…
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2. The Railroading of the American People
The railroads experienced both enormous growth and enormous government intervention. Land was closed off from settlement, causing farmers to oppose the…
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4. The Colonial Economy
The discovery of the new world was a mercantilist process. The private property method was more successful than the public method. But, moving people to the…
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5. International Trade
International trade routes revealed comparative advantages of the different shippers, whether New England or British. Merchants dealt with shippers with whom…
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6. Inflation in Colonial America
Colonial governments tried to manipulate the Spanish peso when they couldn't control the commodity monies. They increased the supply of pesos (inflation) and…
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7. The American Revolution: Part 1
Salutary neglect of the colonies spurred innovation and abundance in a spirit of freedom. Bitterness crept into the relationship after the French and Indian…
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8. The American Revolution: Part 2
The Virginia Resolves said Virginia citizens should not obey the Stamp Acts. Intimidation of the tax collectors effectively nullified the Act. Colonialists…
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9. The American Revolution: Part 3
The Americans successfully used the different tactic guerilla warfare against the staid and rigid British soldiers. War caused a large increase in the paper…
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Omnipotent Government
Mises illustrates his case with a review of the fall of Germany, from the collapse of classical liberalism to the rise of nationalism and socialism. But…
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Writers Can Prosper Without Intellectual Property
If composers could set still-unmatched records of productivity without copyrights while earning a living, writers could do this in an environment that did not…
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Ayn Rand and the Early Libertarian Movement
In Ayn Rand and the World She Made Heller goes to bat for Rand as a fiction writer. Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right by Jennifer Burns is…
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The Future of Libertarianism
Rothbard explains why he is optimistic. The norm of civilization has been despotism and statism. The quantum quality change in history has been the Industrial…
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The Inflationary Boom of the 1920s
The Industrial Revolution and the development of the modern banking system were the two big things that happened in the Eighteenth Century in Britain. Why does…
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The Inflationary Boom of the 1920s (continued)
Republican policy has always been high tariffs, keeping foreign goods out. But, then the US would lend those countries money to be able to pay for our…
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The New Deal and the Post-War International Monetary System
The World Economic Conference of 1933 in London met to deal with America's Great Depression, but, without consulting anyone, FDR declared that the U.S. would…
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The Progressive Era Triple Alliance: Government as Cartellizer (continued)
The state must invest in human beings the same way you invest in cattle on a farm. This progressive corporatist view was behind the creation of the Rockefeller…
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What Price a Planned Economy?
We are witnessing a great tragedy: more and more people being driven by indignation about the suppression of political and intellectual freedom joining the…
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The Progressive Era Triple Alliance: Government as Cartellizer
The progressive period birthed the cancerous growth of the welfare/warfare state, fake capitalism, the middle way, neomercantilism, and the corporate state…
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The Rise of Big Business: The Failure of Trusts and Cartels (continued)
Despite the drive for monopoly, only oil, sugar and corn products ended up dominated by a particular company. Bigger was not better. Biggest was not best…
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22. The "Trade Cycle"
From The Failure of the "New Economics". Narrated by Josiah Schmidt.
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23. Return To Mercantilism?
From The Failure of the "New Economics". Narrated by Josiah Schmidt.
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24. Keynes Lets Himself Go
From The Failure of the "New Economics". Narrated by Josiah Schmidt.
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25. Did Keynes Recant?
From The Failure of the "New Economics". Narrated by Josiah Schmidt.