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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 Media26. "Full Employment" As The Goal
From The Failure of the "New Economics". Narrated by Josiah Schmidt.
Mises Media27. "The National Income Approach"
From The Failure of the "New Economics". Narrated by Josiah Schmidt.
Mises Media28. The Keynesian Policies
From The Failure of the "New Economics". Narrated by Josiah Schmidt.


Mises MediaAppendix A: The 1919 Prophecies
From The Failure of the "New Economics". Narrated by Josiah Schmidt.

Mises MediaIntroduction to Economics: Part 1
Starting with Crusoe economics, Rothbard builds the economic concepts which can be developed by this analogy. These concepts are the axiom of human action…
Mises MediaIntroduction to Economics: Part 2
Rothbard continues the Crusoe analogy. He covers subjectivity of value, and the concept of marginal utility. Part two of seven from Introduction to Economics…
Mises MediaIntroduction to Economics: Part 3
Rothbard considers how prices are determined by supply and demand on the free market. All long shortages are caused by government interventions. Forecasting is…
Mises MediaIntroduction to Economics: Part 4
Costs are always ex ante. There are no such things as social costs or social benefits. Costs are determined by how much entrepreneurs think consumers will pay…
Mises MediaIntroduction to Economics: Part 5
The entrepreneur is the major risk bearer. Business return on capital is long run profits or losses. Real rate of interest is determined by time preferences…
Mises MediaIntroduction to Economics: Part 6
What causes business cycles? Keynesians say the cycles happen because the free market economy does not spend enough. Thus, pump spending in. Additionally…
Mises MediaIntroduction to Economics: Part 7
Deficits are equal to expenditures minus taxes. Reagan spoke of cutting government spending, but meant only cutting the rate of growth of government spending…
Mises MediaThe Rise of Big Business: The Failure of Trusts and Cartels
In the 19th Century and the beginning of the 20th, the rise of big business on the free market could not create monopolies and cartels. Only government could…

Mises Media1. Why Should We Study History, In the First Place?
The study of U.S. history seen through the lens of economic theory teaches us lessons like: (1) Why did America do so well economically?, (2) Why do we have…
Mises Media10. "The Propensity To Consume": II
From The Failure of the "New Economics". Narrated by Josiah Schmidt.

Mises Media12. "The Marginal Efficiency Of Capital"
From The Failure of the "New Economics". Narrated by Josiah Schmidt.
Mises Media13. Expectations And Speculation
From The Failure of the "New Economics". Narrated by Josiah Schmidt.
Mises Media14. "Liquidity Preference"
From The Failure of the "New Economics". Narrated by Josiah Schmidt.
Mises Media15. The Theory Of Interest
From The Failure of the "New Economics". Narrated by Josiah Schmidt.
Mises Media16. Confusions About Capital
From The Failure of the "New Economics". Narrated by Josiah Schmidt.
Mises Media17. "Own Rates Of Interest"
From The Failure of the "New Economics". Narrated by Josiah Schmidt.
Mises Media18. The General Theory Restated
From The Failure of the "New Economics". Narrated by Josiah Schmidt.
Mises Media19. Unemployment And Wage-Rates
From The Failure of the "New Economics". Narrated by Josiah Schmidt.
Mises Media2. Exploration: The Finding, Founding, and Discovery of the New World
Why did people move to the new world? The benefits outweighed the costs. The explorers were driven by the economic philosophy of mercantilism. Government and…
Mises Media2. Postulates of Keynesian Economics
From The Failure of the "New Economics". Narrated by Josiah Schmidt.
Mises Media20. Employment, Money, And Prices
From The Failure of the "New Economics". Narrated by Josiah Schmidt.
Mises Media3. Immigration
The Spanish and Portuguese were not very effective about colonizing the New World, despite finding gold and silver and claiming land. The London Company…
Mises Media3. Keynes vs. Say's Law
From The Failure of the "New Economics". Narrated by Josiah Schmidt.

Mises Media5. "Labor Units" and "Wage Units"
From The Failure of the "New Economics". Narrated by Josiah Schmidt.
Mises Media6. The Role of Expectations
From The Failure of the "New Economics". Narrated by Josiah Schmidt.
Mises Media7. "Statics" vs. "Dynamics"
From The Failure of the "New Economics". Narrated by Josiah Schmidt.
Mises Media8. Income, Saving and Investment
From The Failure of the "New Economics". Narrated by Josiah Schmidt.
Mises Media9. "The Propensity To Consume": I
From The Failure of the "New Economics". Narrated by Josiah Schmidt.

Mises MediaForeword and Acknowledgements
From the first edition of Robert P. Murphy's Chaos Theory: Two Essays on Market Anarchy. Narrated by Jock Coats.
Mises MediaIntroduction to Chaos Theory: Two Essays on Market Anarchy
Introduction to the first edition of Robert P. Murphy's Chaos Theory: Two Essays on Market Anarchy. Once we simply imagine the possibility of a society without…
Mises MediaPrivate Defense
There is nothing intrinsic to military defense that requires state provision. The free market can provide defense more cheaply and more effectively than the…
Mises MediaPrivate Law
In this essay, Robert Murphy argues that the elimination of the state will not lead to lawless chaos. Voluntary institutions will emerge to effectively and…
Mises MediaFree Banking and Contract Law
Those Americans who twice succeeded in doing away with a central bank were aware of the dangers; but they failed to see that the evils they fought were present…
Mises Media1. Spreading the News in Lexington and Concord
Pages 11-20 in the text, as narrated by Floy Lilley. From Part 1 of Conceived in Liberty, Volume IV: "The War Begins." Includes the Preface to Volume IV.
Mises Media10. Paper Money Financing
Pages 53-55 in the text, as narrated by Floy Lilley. From Part 1 of Conceived in Liberty, Volume IV: "The War Begins."
Mises Media2. The Response in Britain
Pages 21-22 in the text, as narrated by Floy Lilley. From Part 1 of Conceived in Liberty, Volume IV: "The War Begins."
Mises Media3. Guerrilla or Conventional War
Pages 23-25 in the text, as narrated by Floy Lilley. From Part 1 of Conceived in Liberty, Volume IV: "The War Begins."
Mises Media4. The Seizure of Fort Ticonderoga
Pages 26-29 in the text, as narrated by Floy Lilley. From Part 1 of Conceived in Liberty, Volume IV: "The War Begins."
Mises Media5. The Response of the Continental Congress
Pages 30-33 in the text, as narrated by Floy Lilley. From Part 1 of Conceived in Liberty, Volume IV: "The War Begins."
Mises Media6. Charles Lee: Champion of Liberty and Guerrilla War
Pages 34-39 in the text, as narrated by Floy Lilley. From Part 1 of Conceived in Liberty, Volume IV: "The War Begins."
Mises Media7. The Battle of Bunker Hill
Pages 40-42 in the text, as narrated by Floy Lilley. From Part 1 of Conceived in Liberty, Volume IV: "The War Begins."
Mises Media70. The Expansion of Libertarian Thought
Pages 333-339 in the text, as narrated by Floy Lilley. From Part 8 of Conceived in Liberty, Volume III: "Other Forces for Revolution."
Mises Media71. The Vermont Revolution: The Green Mountain Boys
Pages 340-349 in the text, as narrated by Floy Lilley. From Part 8 of Conceived in Liberty, Volume III: "Other Forces for Revolution."
Mises Media72. The Revolutionary Movement: Ideology and Motivation
Pages 350-356 in the text, as narrated by Floy Lilley. From Part 8 of Conceived in Liberty, Volume III: "Other Forces for Revolution."
Mises Media8. Washington Transforms the Army
Pages 43-45 in the text, as narrated by Floy Lilley. From Part 1 of Conceived in Liberty, Volume IV: "The War Begins."
Mises Media9. The Invasion of Canada
Pages 46-52 in the text, as narrated by Floy Lilley. From Part 1 of Conceived in Liberty, Volume IV: "The War Begins."
Mises MediaA History of Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand's books sell between eight hundred thousand and a million copies a year. Her first novel We the Living was admired by Mencken. Night of January 16th…
Mises MediaDoes the State Protect Us?
When the enemy is at the gates, the individual abdicates his self-reliance and places himself unreservedly under the direction of the captain; he gives up his…
Mises Media1. The First Philosopher-Economists: the Greeks (continued)
From An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume I. Pages 10-27 in the text. Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.