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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.
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A Tale of Four Cities
Mark Thornton reviews Philip Duffy's book about the mysterious Irish banker Richard Cantillon (1680–1734). Many crucial Austrian insights have been found in…
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Commencement Address
"Rothbard always worked with great enthusiasm and joy despite the many obstacles he faced. The reason why his spirits never dampened is because he had…
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Higher Education in Crisis
"You go to college not so much because of the educational characteristics, and maybe not just because of the signaling, but maybe because it's just a lot of…
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The Great Ron Paul at Mises University
"Look up the Mises Institute and you'll find the answer." Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on August 2, 2024. Mises University is the…
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Economic Inequality
"Even those who look upon the inequality of wealth and incomes as a deplorable thing, cannot deny that it makes for progressing capital accumulation. And it is…
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Environmental Economics
A brief overview of how we can look at economic and environmental issues with an Austrian perspective. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on…
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Firms, Managers, and Entrepreneurship
"How do you run a business? How do you see things in the marketplace as an Austrian compared to others? Is there anything we can learn from Austrian…
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PsyWar: Enforcing the New World Order
"Malinformation is information which may be true, but causes the receiver, the recipient of that malinformation, to become more distrustful of the government…
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Product Safety Regulation
People are tempted to think we need government regulation and intervention in product safety. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on August 1…
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Bureaucrats in the Deep State
The analysis of the operations of the military industrial congressional complex can be applied to other types of bureaucracies that have the ability to bestow…
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Effects of Inflation
Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on August 1, 2024. Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of…
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Fiscal Policy and Economic Reality
There is no general social benefit from government spending regardless of how it is financed. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on August 1…
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Modern Monetary Theory
Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on August 1, 2024. Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of…
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Game Theory
Every game has a structure that involves three elements: you have players, you have strategies, and you have the outcomes. Recorded at the Mises Institute in…
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Video Games and Austrian Economics
The application of Austrian economics to the study of games, video games, and virtual worlds. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on August 1…
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Cronyism in America: The Nation’s First Big Business
The task of the economic historian that views government regulation through the lens of cronyism is to uncover the actual motivations—not the stated…
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Unseen Cost of Regulation
"The market process is cumulative. It builds off of what is. So, if you abolish the regulations, that's going to be better." Recorded at the Mises Institute in…
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The Political Economy of Policing
Comparative institutional analysis of both policing provided by government bureaucracies and by private enterprises that can engage in economic calculation…
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Economic Prosperity
Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 31, 2024. Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of…
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South Africa’s War Against Capitalism
Threats to capitalism, arguments raised against capitalism, and the importance of liberty. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 31…
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Free Trade versus Protectionism
What has been the rhetoric and what has been the reality of trade policy? Where do we stand at this point in time? Why don't trade agreements work? Where…
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Differences between Mises and Rothbard on Ethical Theory
Is ethics objectively true? Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 31, 2024. Mises University is the world's leading instructional program…
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Measurement in Economics
Austrian economists understand how we can apply economic laws and concepts to what we see in the real world. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn…
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Minimum Wage
The minimum wage is harmful, racist, sexist, and completely unnecessary. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 30, 2024. Mises University…
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Competition and Monopoly
"This is a core topic for Austrian economists, because we have a particular way of thinking about competition and the absence of competition in the form of…
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The Austrian Theory of the Business Cycle
Austrian business cycle theory is the defining feature of Austrian economics. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 30, 2024. Mises…
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Austrian Capital Theory
Capital is the sum of the whole complex of goods destined for acquisition, evaluated in money terms. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on…
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Calculation and Socialism
A modern socialist economy is impossible. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 30, 2024. Mises University is the world's leading…
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The Theory of Interest
"The implication of incorporating into our theory of price, the valuations that we engage in as human beings with respect to time." Recorded at the Mises…
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Entrepreneurship
The entrepreneur is the driving force of the whole market system. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 29, 2024. Mises University is the…
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Banking
What do banks do? What is the difference between loan banking and deposit banking? Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 29, 2024. Mises…
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Money
Money, what it is, where it came from, and why it is essential for a just, thriving society and economy. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on…
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The Division of Labor and Social Order
"Division of labor really is the market economy." Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 29, 2024. Mises University is the world's leading…
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Praxeology
"The word praxeology can be used in two different ways. One is for a science of human action, as developed by Ludwig von Mises and his successors, principally…
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Subjective Value and Market Prices
"Price theory is the cornerstone of the foundation of economic calculation, and economic calculation is the foundation upon which rests our understanding of…
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The Birth of the Austrian School
"Menger developed the whole system of economics, and he showed that it was based on subjective value and individual choice based on the principle of marginal…
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Axis of Evil: America’s Three Worst Presidents
"The American academic history profession periodically publishes the rankings of the greatest presidents, and Lincoln and FDR are always there at the top. And…
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Welcome and Opening Remarks
Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 28, 2024. Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of…
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Fear is the mind killer: America’s dangerous obsession with ‘safety’
Commonsense safety measures are being replaced in our working culture by an impossible “no risk” standard. A culture of “can do” is replaced by the culture of…
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Government regulation of competitive firms creates monopolies
Economic mythology said governments must regulate markets to prevent monopolies. In reality, it is the government regulation itself that creates monopolies…
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How Corporate Bailouts Inflate the Money Supply
Continued bailouts undermine the entire economy by rewarding financial failure and discouraging productive economic activity. Original Article: How Corporate…
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Natural rights and the American border
Issues of immigration are complex. The current system of open borders, detention and expanding access to welfare is destructive to our body politic. We need to…
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The Absurdity of Intellectual Property Laws
While protecting “intellectual property” has a good sound to it — even among libertarians — such policies are harmful to authentic property rights. We need to…
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The Limitations of Economic Laws
Economic laws represent the real world. They are not ideologies or objects of worship. These laws are not the product of an ideological wish list but rather…
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The Trump assassination attempt exposes the establishment’s deceitfulness
The Washington political establishment's uniform condemnation of the assassination attempt against Donald Trump does not square with the apocalyptic rhetoric…
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The commencement speech someone needs to give
Instead of the usual claptrap that characterizes most graduation speeches, someone needs to give a speech that defends liberty and tells the truth about…
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How Economists Evaluate Tariffs Versus Income Taxes
Prompted by a listener request, Bob gives the standard economic analysis of tariffs and other types of taxes. This is relevant because the populist Right is…
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Inverted, Recessed, and Hung Out to Dry
The great reckoning seems to be following the course that Mark Thornton has been charting by guesswork. In other words, the great train wreck seems to be…
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Five Myths About the History of Political Thought
Ryan McMaken explores five enduring myths in the history of political thought, drawing on Ralph Raico’s The Struggle for Liberty to challenge conventional…
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Zoomers: America’s Most Persecuted Minority
Tho Bishop delivers a defense of Gen Z, arguing that they are bearing the brunt of decades of fiscal irresponsibility, inflationary policy, and political…
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Debate: Higher Tariff Taxes Will Create Prosperity
Hosted live at Mises Unviversity 2025, Spencer Morrison, author of Reshore: How Tariffs Will Bring Our Jobs Home, faces off with economist Murray Sabrin over…
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Rothbardian Insights on the Political Economy of Mass Media
Connor O’Keeffe applies Rothbardian insights to expose how the news media distorts reality, not because of markets, but because of its entanglement with the…
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Kamala's Palace Coup
On this episode of Radio Rothbard, Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop discuss America's new chapter of late-stage Soviet politics. What does the last week show about…
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Faculty Panel: Theory and Method
What’s the real foundation of a free and prosperous society—state control or individual liberty? In this dynamic faculty panel, leading Austrian economists…
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Faculty Panel: Policy and History
What's the best historical example of a truly libertarian society—and what’s the biggest obstacle facing liberty today? In this faculty panel, Mises Institute…
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Equilibrium Illusions
Jonathan Newman challenges mainstream interpretations of equilibrium, showing how Austrian economics replaces static models with a dynamic, step-by-step view…
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Anarchy in the UK
With political turmoil creating anxiety in Great Britain, The Economist chose to describe the political situation as “anarchy.” In reality, this is political…
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Biden is not running the government. So, who is?
It’s finally clear to everyone that President Biden is not running the federal government. Yet the government is carrying on as it always has. It’s important…
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Biden’s student loan gift SAVE is simply a wealth transfer
The Biden administration is determined to do an end run around the courts and ram through yet another student loan forgiveness plan. It is not real “loan…
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Group interests and the ‘good of the whole’
Progressives promote civil rights viewpoints as being “good for the whole” of society. Yet most of the modern civil rights movements and accompanying…