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Podcasts, interviews, lectures, narrated articles and essays, and more. This is the Mises Institute's primary online media catalog.
Episodes
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How Human Action Guided My Teaching and Research Career
"If you have Austrian Economics and libertarian theory in your educational background, you look at history very differently. Presented at the 2024 Human Action…
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There’s Many a Slip ’twixt Cup and Lip
"Ludwig von Mises was a true genius and we can certainly see that on display in his magnum opus, Human Action. The book is cohesive, thorough, and systematic…
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Calculation and Environmental Policy: Lessons from Human Action
"In writing Human Action, Mises did not devote much space to a direct discussion of environmental policy. But, as I went through the book with an eye toward…
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Human Action, the Way Forward
"Mainstream modeling in macroeconomics has not been a way forward." Presented at the 2024 Human Action Conference on Saturday, 18 May 2024, at the Mises…
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Dualism and Calculation: What Mises Taught Me about Economics and Capitalism
"I've read Human Action cover to cover at least seven times, I think, and every time I come back to it, I'm just more blown away by how smart Mises is."…
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Reading, Teaching, and Quoting Mises
"Those first 300 pages are rather difficult. And they're difficult for a variety of different reasons for both professional economists as well as just regular…
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Human Action: Foundations for the Modern Austrian School
"When Human Action first appeared, its distinctive Austrian school approach was already considered a closed chapter in the history of economic thought. So…
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The Challenge of Praxeological Realism
"Like most of us in this room, I have never met Ludwig von Mises in person. I first encountered his ideas some 20 years after his passing. In what follows, I…
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Doctor Copper
In this week's episode, Mark analyzes the record high price of copper. He explains why Wall Street focuses on the price of copper and why this crucial economic…
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My Discovery of Human Action and Mises as a Philosopher
"Sociology is in constant danger of thinking something is a law that is not a law. And economists frequently think that something is a hypothesis for the…
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As the Dollar Falters, Gold Becomes Insurance, Not Speculation
Many people are selling their gold to make ends meet. Others are buying gold as insurance against mounting price inflation. Original Article: As the Dollar…
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Blowback in the African Coup Belt
The decades of American and European intervention in Africa are coming to an end, and things are even worse for American interests there. Perhaps overthrowing…
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How Does Money in Our Possession Acquire Value?
Mainstream economists claim money has purchasing power because the government issuing the money has so declared. That makes no sense. Original Article: How…
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Profit Is Not Plunder
Despite statements from Biden and other progressives, profits in a market economy are not a form of plunder. Instead, they represent entrepreneurial gains that…
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The Hush-Money Case against Trump Is Ridiculous and Revealing
Despite the media definitions of the Trump trial as a “hush money trial,” the actual criminal charges are contrived and legally unprecedented. This is a show…
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Thinking Properly about Public Welfare
For most Americans, the debate is about what size the welfare state should be. But why is there a welfare state at all? Original Article: Thinking Properly…
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War Hysteria Fuels New Attacks on Free Speech
Unfortunately, these assaults on the First Amendment continue to find support even among people who pretend to be in support of freedom and opposed to federal…
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Zwolinski Tries to Take Rothbard to the Mat
In a recent symposium on Murray Rothbard's For a New Liberty, philosopher Matt Zwolinski takes issue with Rothbard on Murray’s views of freedom and property…
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The Book That Made Me an Economist
"One of the great lessons of Mises's Human Action is that the institutions of the free society—private property and sound money—make up the environment…
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The Law of Association: Foundation of Human Society
"We can build a society that's based on peace and cooperation, and we can create a society that flourishes. That's why the law of association is so important."…
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Entrepreneurship and Property Rights
"It is impossible to eliminate the entrepreneur from the picture of a market economy. So, an entrepreneur is central to our understanding of what a market is."…
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Mises and Rothbard on Credit Contraction during a Downturn
"Read the great book of Mises. It's the foundation that all of us have tried to develop and defend: the praxeological edifice of economic theory." Presented at…
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Human Action: The Antidote to Progressivism
"Human Action is the foundational work of modern Austrian economics, and that is reason enough for reading it. But there is an equally compelling reason for…
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Mises’s Epicurean Ethics
"These days, Stoicism is very fashionable, and popular books on this subject are easy to find. Ludwig von Mises drew from a different tradition of Greek…
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The National Security Complex: Contemporary Statism on Steroids
"The empire can and should be dismantled. 1949 was a crucial mistake—a pivot point that has led to this massive fiscal and political crisis that we have in…
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Welcome and Opening Remarks
Tom DiLorenzo welcomes attendees to the 2024 Human Action Conference. Recorded Friday, 17 May 2024, at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.
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Mateusz Machaj on Economists and Inflation
Mateusz "Matt" Machaj holds a PhD in economics and is a Fellow with the Mises Institute, who has also won both the Douglas E. French and the Lawrence Fertig…
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Republican Party: Old and New
On this episode of Radio Rothbard, Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop discuss a recent op-ed from a trio of octogenarian former Republican senators lamenting the…
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Can There Be an Alliance between Austrian and Feminist Schools of Economics?
While Austrian and feminist critiques of neoclassical economics have some similarities, they also differ strongly on important points. Feminist critiques are…
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Free-Market Profit Comes From Voluntary Exchange, not Exploitation
Progressives claim that profits are an unjust transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich. In reality, entrepreneurs earn profits by directing resources from…
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No, Milei Is Not a Fascist
Despite the accusations that Javier Milei is a fascist in libertarian clothes, many of his reforms have been successful in reversing some of the damage done to…
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Somaliland Needs Self-Determination
Somalia is a country invented by European intervention. The region known as Somaliland ought to be free to secede from this imperialist creation. Original…
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State Coercion and the Injustice of Apartheid
In publicly opposing apartheid, William H. Hutt saw how legal segregation kept black South Africans from pursuing legitimate economic goals. To Hutt, apartheid…
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The American Labor Market: Fact vs. Fiction
Progressive historians, journalists, and politicians claim that the Industrial Revolution and the growth of industry brought poverty and exploitation to…
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The TikTok Ban Is the Next Patriot Act
Congress claims to have targeted TikTok because China's government allegedly uses it to spy on Americans. Besides dealing with a nonexistent threat, the bill…
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What Can Carl Menger Teach Us about Falafel Sandwiches?
What better way to explain the relationship between higher-order and lower-order goods than with food? Here, we look at the falafel sandwich. Original Article…
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Abolish all Treason and Sedition Laws
States know that treason and sedition laws are about much more than matters of law and order. They are essential components of enhancing state power. Original…
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An Optimistic Strategy for Liberty
A strategy for liberty must be both optimistic and realistic. Murray Rothbard understood that important point and laid out strategies and their moral…
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Artificially Low Interest Rates Are Creating Economic Chaos
In this review of Edward Chancellor’s The Price of Time, Joakim Book notes that a market economy cannot function correctly when central bankers manipulate…
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Fixing FDR’s Biggest Blunder: From Gold Standard to Fiat Folly and Back
On this day ninety-one years ago President Franklin D. Roosevelt via executive order seized gold legally held by Americans, criminalizing the use of sound…
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How the “Informal” Economy Creates Free Markets in Bolivia
Bolivia has been mired in poverty, hyperinflation, and state control of the economy for generations. It is time for a change, and the Alasitas Fair is leading…
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Is “Havana Syndrome” Russian Aggression or Another Media Conspiracy Theory?
According to a recent 60 Minutes broadcast, Russian agents are suspected of launching microwave rays at US diplomats abroad. The problem is that many of these…
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The Intellectual Humility of the Spontaneous Order
F.A. Hayek coined the term spontaneous order to point out that the prosperous societies are also societies where people are free to pursue their own goals. The…
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The War on Poverty Makes Poverty Worse
Government officials like to claim they are doing something about reducing poverty. The trouble is, of course, that what they are doing makes things worse…
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Commercial Real Estate's Future
In this week's episode, Mark looks at the current state of the commercial real estate market, especially the problematic refinancing requirement in an…
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An Austrian Critique of the New MMT Documentary
Stephanie Kelton is the star of a new documentary film touting the alleged brilliance of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). Murphy gives a comprehensive critique of…
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Joseph Stiglitz: Stupid or Sinister?
On this episode of Radio Rothbard, Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop discuss the media campaign around Joseph Stiglitz's new book, The Road to Freedom, which…
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Creating Wealth: The Cantillon or the Smith Way
Although mainstream economists hold that Adam Smith is the father of modern economics, it was Richard Cantillon that recognized the centrality of…
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Economic Education Has Become Economic Disinformation
The attempt by the mainstream economics profession to create economic literacy has turned into a movement to promote economic illiteracy. Order a free copy of…
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How EU Law Has Made the Internet Less Free for Everyone Else
Like the Biden administration, the European Union elites are seeking to crush free speech on the Internet in the name of preventing “hate speech” and…
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Mises in Argentina: Lessons of the Past for Today
In 1959, Ludwig von Mises gave lectures on economics in Argentina, where the economy was in steep decline. In the 1920s, Argentina was one of the world's…
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Opposing Military Intervention: Loving Dictators or Hating War?
Why have some Americans opposed this nation’s involvement in foreign wars? According to Jacob Heilbrunn of The National Interest, it is because those Americans…
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Thanks to Government Animal Control, Stray Animals Rule My Neighborhood
Animal control officers are supposed to, well, control animals in a municipal area. But thanks to animal control policies, it's the stray animals that are in…
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What Is the Purpose of Economic Theory?
Mainstream economists believe that economic theory is valid when it “predicts” economic actions or trends. Austrian economists, however, say that the purpose…
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What the Campus Protesters and Their Critics Get Right and Wrong
While these students are right to oppose the horrific Israeli attacks on Gaza, many of the protests reflect leftist groupthink and typical higher education…
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Conservatives Are Wrong on Economics. Here’s How to Fix the Problem.
While conservatives and followers of Austrian economics often have much in common, many conservatives are against free trade and free exchange. Austrians need…
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Cowardice, Not Courage, Led House Republicans to Side with the Democrats
The New York Times recently characterized House Republicans that voted to extend government domestic spying and continue to fund wars in the Middle East and…
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Does Libertarianism Reject Communities? Libertarianism Actually Strengthens Them
A common knock on libertarianism is that it is so individualistic that it rejects the concept of community. (Think of the political cartoon in which the…
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Javier Milei vs. the Status Quo
Unsurprisingly, Javier Milei’s free-market and antistate initiatives face opposition in Argentina. Whether he is successful depends on his being able to…
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Low Time Preference Leads to Civilization
Economists use time preference to explain the existence of interest, but the ability of people to postpone some present consumption in order to save for the…