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Podcasts, interviews, lectures, narrated articles and essays, and more. This is the Mises Institute's primary online media catalog.
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Government Intervention and Economic Inequality
Mark Thornton revisits his Mises University lecture on government intervention and economic inequality, arguing that intervention does not merely shrink the…
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The Return of Economic Gaslighting
Democrats learned the hard way that voters don’t like being told the economy is great when they’re struggling to afford everyday life. Now Republicans have…
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Has Trump Already Lost the War with Iran?
Months ago, the administration said the war's goals were regime change and the removal of all uranium from Iran. We never hear about that anymore because the…
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Scott Bessent: New Prince of the Yen?
On this episode of Power & Market, Ryan and Tho are joined by Dr. Jonathan Newman to discuss recent economics headlines, including interventions to prop up the…
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The Fed’s Confidence Game: Gold, Debt, and What Comes Next
Dr. Mark Thornton of the Mises Institute joins VRIC Media to discuss what may really be driving Federal Reserve policy—and why the Fed’s priorities may have…
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If Markets Are Booming, Why Are You Struggling?
Mises Institute’s Mark Thornton joins Lynette Zang to break down why financial markets can boom while everyday Americans continue to struggle. They discuss the…
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Mark Thornton Joins Capitalcosm to Discusses Gold, Inflation, and Interest Rates
Mises Institute senior fellow Mark Thornton joins Capital Cosm to discuss what rising gold and silver prices, stubborn long-term interest rates, and growing…
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Republican Party Displacement
Mark Thornton returns to Rothbard’s idea of major party realignment, arguing that ideology—not interest-group politics alone—drives long-term political change…
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5 Things Anthony Fauci Teaches Us About the American Government
Fauci is back in the limelight after the release of his diary before a Senate hearing last week. And that’s good, because the career of Anthony Fauci can teach…
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Myths of American Healthcare
Much of the discussion around American healthcare ignores the fact that most of the American healthcare system is already a government healthcare system. Be…
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The Declaration and Dinesh D’Souza’s “Revisionist History”
Dinesh D’Souza—a self-proclaimed opponent of “revisionist history”—reinterprets the Declaration of Independence through anachronism and equivocation, reading…
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The Burritoflation Debate
On this episode of Power and Market, Ryan, Connor, and Tho discuss the social debate this week focused on Gen Z economic anxiety. How did a discussion over the…
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When Death Is Cheaper Than Care: Mutual Aid for the Developing World
Mutual aid societies once were an important part of the US social landscape. Africans can benefit from the same movements—provided their governments get out of…
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The US Supports the Mass Migration of Moroccans into Spanish Territory
In spite of the GOP's feigned dismay over Morocco's weaponization of migrants against Spanish exclaves in North Africa, US policy supports Moroccan…
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Why Mises Thought Fractional Reserve Banking Caused the Boom-Bust Cycle
Bob returns to the fractional reserve banking debate to clarify a point the critics keep missing: in the Mises-Hayek-Rothbard framework, it's fractional…
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The Road Ahead
The transition problem. Rothbard weighs forcing deflation down to the existing gold stock against raising the gold price to match the dollar supply, defends…
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The 100 Percent Gold Tradition
Rothbard places the 100 percent program in the classical economists and the currency school, and in the Jeffersonian and Jacksonian political tradition—figures…
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Professor Yeager and 100 Percent Gold
Leland Yeager, an advocate of freely fluctuating fiat money, concedes that a 100 percent gold standard would end reserve drains, forced contraction, and…
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Objections to 100 Percent Gold
The standard objections, taken in turn. If banks could not profit under 100 percent reserves, they may charge for their services as every other useful business…
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100 Percent Gold Banking
The cardinal difference between Rothbard and most other gold advocates. He rejects the Chicago School’s view of 100 percent reserves as a convenient tool for…
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The Decline from Weight to Name: Encouraging Bank Inflation
Why governments prefer money creation to taxation: the benefits are plain to whoever receives the new money first, while the losses stay hidden from everyone…
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Inflation and Statistics: Economics Explains Them, Not the Other Way Around
Statistics can be interesting and informative, but only if one can properly understand them through sound economic theory. Original article…
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The Decline from Weight to Name: Monopolizing the Mint
Rothbard argues that 1931–33 was the last step in a long process rather than a sudden break. Government’s compulsory monopoly of coinage came first, defended…
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The Dollar: Independent Name or Unit of Weight?
The conceptual core of the essay. Rothbard answers the charge that gold advocates want government to fix a price by rejecting its premise—“dollar” was never an…
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Money and Freedom
Rothbard declines both the fashionable dismissal of gold and the restorationist call to return to the pre-1933 standard, which he judges too far decayed to…
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Preface
Writing in 1991, Rothbard sets the essay in its original context: Bretton Woods as an international dollar standard masquerading as a gold standard. He…
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Dr. Mark Thornton Joins The David Lin Report
Dr. Mark Thornton joins David Lin to discuss the AI investment surge, tariffs, inflation, the Fed’s interest-rate dilemma, and the broader risks facing the…
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What Would Happen if Spain Had an Open Border with Morocco
Last week, more than 50,000 people illegally entered the Spanish exclave city of Ceuta, which normally has a population of only 80,000. Why not just open the…
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Debt, Gold, and the Global Economy
Andy Schectman, Founder & CEO of Miles Franklin Precious Metals, interviews Mark Thornton, Senior Fellow at the Mises Institute, to discuss why he believes the…
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Gold, Socialism, and the Crisis of the Dollar
Mark Thornton opens this triple-header episode with a live Radio Rothbard appearance from Mises University, joining Ryan McMaken to discuss inflation, the…
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The Myth of Free Banking in Scotland
Reviewing Lawrence H. White's Free Banking in Britain, Murray Rothbard dismantles the claim that Scotland enjoyed a century of successful free banking before…
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I Spent 28 Years Arresting Criminals. Rothbard Was Right All Along
Murray Rothbard realized the present system of punishment for committing crimes is both inadequate and unjust. We need to move to a system of restitution…
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Rothbard vs. the Free Bankers
Bob reviews Murray Rothbard's 1988 essay "The Myth of Free Banking in Scotland," his sharp response to Larry White's influential account of Scottish free…
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The Dupes of War
No matter how legitimate the reasons might seem for going to war, the results are always horrific, and wars rarely, if ever, accomplish their stated purposes…
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Part V: Applying the Treatise, 1956–1962
The completion of the first draft of Man, Economy, and State enabled Murray Rothbard to move on to other activities and projects. He earned his doctorate in…
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Part IV: The Rothbardian Theory of Interventionism, 1955–1956
Murray Rothbard used his general-equilibrium approach with its emphasis on economic interrelations to erect a systematic framework of interventionism. He…
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Part III: A Böhm-Bawerkian Treatise, 1953–1955
Murray Rothbard’s project drastically changed in mid-1953. Unable to rely on Mises’s sparse treatment of production theory, Rothbard adopted his old…
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Part II: A Misesian Textbook, 1949–1953
Murray Rothbard’s economic perspective changed significantly in 1949 when he met Ludwig von Mises and read his magnum opus, Human Action. With the financial…
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Part I: Neoclassical Training, 1945–1949
Murray Rothbard started his career with a foundational training in neoclassical economics. At Columbia University, he learned from highly regarded professors…
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Introduction
Murray N . Rothbard: The Making of an Austrian Economist is written for everyone interested in Rothbard’s economic theory and Austrian economics in general. We…
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Paradise Lost, Government Gained
After defeating the British in the American Revolution, Americans had the opportunity to set the country on a long path of freedom. They chose to empower…
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Acknowledgements
This book has been several years in the making. Originally we envisioned it as a collection of letters and unpublished monographs from the Rothbard Papers at…
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Universal Principles of Liberalism and the Politics of Race
In attempts to rectify what are seen as historical wrongs against certain groups of people, western governments have embarked on programs to engage in wrongs…
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How Democratic Socialism Created California's Housing Crisis
The democratization of urban planning, the politicization of the environmental movement, and the no-growth movement came together to erect enormous barriers to…
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Domestic Agorism: Eastern Europe’s Example of Libertarianism Without Academic Guidance
The up and down experience with free markets in Eastern Europe following the fall of the Iron Curtain shows that free markets, while undermining the state, do…
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How Much Inequality Is There? Depends on How It’s Measured
For many years, some economists and politicians have painted income equality as a major threat to our economy and well-being. As usual, they understand neither…
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The Legacy of the Declaration
On the Declaration's 250th anniversary, Larsen Plyler asks what the document was actually written to do. Taking Justice Clarence Thomas's recent claim that it…
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Why “Luck” Doesn’t Explain Wealth and Success in the Marketplace
Egalitarians assume people would be equal but for oppression or the random hand of luck, and that where injustice can't be shown, luck alone justifies…
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The Rothbardian Revolution Against Neoliberalism
Is neoliberalism a real intellectual tradition or just an insult? Tho Bishop argues it is real and precise: a program for a regulated market economy running on…
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You Can’t Have Free Markets and an Empire
Plenty of people say they like Ron Paul on the economy but part ways with him on war. Connor O'Keeffe argues that's not a coherent place to stand. The warfare…
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Gold, Inflation, and our K-Shaped Economy
In this episode of Radio Rothbard, recorded live at Mises University 2026, Ryan sits down with Mark Thornton to talk through the economic trends fueling…
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The Causes and Consequences of the French Revolution
On the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution, the French Revolution is being re-litigated again—the left holding it up as necessary progress…
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Stocks, Manure, Gold, and Socialism: Markets and Bad Ideas
Mark Thornton opens with an update on the “Stocks versus Manure” prediction contest, where agricultural stocks are beating the S&P 500 year to date. He then…
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The Making of an Austrian Economist
Patrick Newman presents the book he and Joseph Salerno have written, Murray N. Rothbard: The Making of an Austrian Economist. He traces Rothbard's path from a…
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Faculty Panel: Policy and History
The Policy and History faculty panel takes student questions on the state of the movement and the prospects for freedom. Along the way the panelists remember…
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Faculty Panel: Theory and Method
The Theory and Method faculty panel takes questions from Mises University students. They work through the tough theoretical ones (whether "supply-shock"…
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What Do Austrians Think of Equilibrium?
What do Austrians think of equilibrium? Jonathan Newman's answer is "always and never." Rather than treating equilibrium as an unreachable ideal against which…
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Interventionism and Inequality
Mark Thornton turns Austrian analysis on economic inequality itself—not whether the pie is growing, but how government intervention re-slices it. Drawing on…
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The Anti-Slavery Advocates of Disunion
The anti-slavery disunionists and the abolitionists were some of the most critical of slavery and the most serious about ending it. For them, decentralization…
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Private Property as the Cornerstone of Liberty
Dr. Wanjiru Njoya argues that private property is the indispensable cornerstone of liberty and civilization, and that anti-discrimination laws—however…