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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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The Economics of AI
There is no separate "economics of AI," Peter Klein argues, any more than there was an economics of the internet—there's just economics, applied to specific…
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Business Cycles and Skyscrapers
Record-breaking skyscrapers have a habit of opening just as the economy turns—a pattern Mark Thornton connected to Austrian business cycle theory in his work…
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The Crisis in Higher Education
Everyone agrees higher education is in crisis—tuition rising ten times faster than the price level, administrative bloat, a looming demographic cliff…
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Austrian Economics in Business
What can economics actually teach you about running a business? From the mainstream, Per Bylund argues, very little—its models have no room for the…
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Mises’s Theory of the Promoter-Entrepreneur
Per Bylund takes up Mises's claim that the entrepreneur-promoter cannot be defined praxeologically and argues the opposite—that the promoter can be pinned down…
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The Dehomogenization of Mises and Hayek
Tate Fegley uses Joseph Salerno's work to draw out the fundamental differences between Mises and Hayek—on society, law, the family, and above all the…
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The Cantillon Effect and the “K-Shaped” Economy
Money is never neutral. Jeffrey Degner works line by line through the passage of Cantillon's Essay that made the case nearly three centuries ago—showing how…
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Precursors of the Austrian School
Austrian economics did not begin in 1871. Mark Thornton traces its lineage back through the thinkers the mainstream dismisses: the Spanish Scholastics, who…
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How Norway Built the World’s Largest Fund and a Thriving Economy to Boot
Norway sits on large oil deposits, yet has managed to avoid the “resource curse” that has bedeviled so many nations that have abundant natural resources, but…
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Modern Monetary Theory
Modern Monetary Theory's central claim is that a government with a printing press is never budget constrained — so the only real limit on spending is…
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Game Theory
Game theory has Austrian roots—Oskar Morgenstern was Mises's doctoral student—but the way it's taught leads almost everywhere to the same conclusion…
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Austrian Economists You May Not Know
Paul Cwik and Shawn Ritenour trace what happened to the Austrian school after Menger, Böhm-Bawerk, and Wieser—as it spread beyond Vienna and produced a…
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Yes, Democratic Socialists Want Soviet-Style Control of Capital
While the democratic socialists are claiming to just want a society like they have in Denmark, their real aims are the seizure of all or most private property…
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Cronyism: The Origins of the Federal Reserve
Drawing on his new book Cronyism: Rise of the Corporate Estate, 1849–1929, Patrick Newman makes the case that the Federal Reserve is the signature example of…
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Inflation and the Family
Jeffrey Degner brings monetary economics to a subject economists rarely touch: the family. Surveying the global retreat from marriage and childbearing, he…
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Public Choice from an Austrian Perspective
Tate Fegley surveys the big ideas of public choice—politics analyzed with the tools of economics—and shows where an Austrian approach sharpens them. Rational…
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Environmental Conservation
Drawing on his forthcoming book on environmental economics from an Austrian perspective, Timothy Terrell takes apart the standard case for environmental…
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The Austrian Theory of Economic Progress
What makes a society prosper? Shawn Ritenour lays out the Austrian theory of economic progress, and its quarrel with mainstream growth theory. There is no…
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Race and Discrimination
Wanjiru Njoya applies praxeology to debates about race and discrimination. She starts with Mises on polylogism—the doctrine, shared by Marxists and Nazis…
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Repugnant Markets
Alvin Roth won a Nobel Prize for designing workarounds to markets society finds morally repugnant. Sandy Klein argues the workarounds aren't needed. Taking…
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Will You Ever Be Able to Buy a House?
Will Gen Z ever be able to buy a house? Timothy Terrell starts by clearing away the popular explanations—institutional investors buy under two percent of…
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You Know How This Happens, Right?
Contemporary culture, with its fixation on careers, tends to downgrade the career of motherhood. Original article…
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Tariffs vs. Free Trade
Economists have agreed on free trade for two centuries; the public and the politicians haven't caught up. Lucas Engelhardt rebuilds the case from…
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Price Controls
With New York reviving a citywide rent freeze, Joseph Salerno returns to the economics of price controls. Following Mises and Rothbard, he shows how a single…
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Competition and Monopoly
Do free markets naturally tend toward monopoly, requiring antitrust to keep them honest? Tate Fegley makes the Austrian case that the whole framework is…
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The Austrian Theory of the Business Cycle
Patrick Newman lays out the Austrian theory of the business cycle—one of the school's signature contributions. He first shows how genuine savings drives…
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From Spoiled Sons of Liberty to Surveillance Leviathan: America’s Six Republics and the Myth of Eternal Union
Most Americans, unfortunately, believe that we are still living in the constitutional republic created in 1787. That was five republics ago. Original article…
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Austrian Capital Theory
Is capital a uniform "pool" that can be reshaped into anything, or a delicate, time-structured web of complementary pieces? Paul Cwik traces the question from…
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Sanctuary Cities: Leave Your Ambition and Entrepreneurial Skills at the Border
While many immigrants bring entrepreneurial skills, they often settle in US cities governed by leftists who are hostile to private enterprise. Original…
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The Quiet Rise of Chinese Innovation
The US government continues to drag down the economy with its reckless wars and massive debt accumulation. On the other side of the globe, China is pursuing a…
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Calculation and Socialism
Timothy Terrell revisits Mises's 1920 bombshell: under socialism, rational economic calculation isn't just hard—it's impossible. Without market prices for the…
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The Ideology Behind the American Revolution
Why did so many American colonials take arms against the ruling British, even when the odds were stacked against them? Dr. Wanjiru Njoya looks into the…
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The Theory of Interest
Jeffrey Herbener builds the Austrian theory of interest from the ground up. Interest, he argues, isn't the productivity of capital or a mere cost of…
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Constant, Tocqueville, and Acton on the Enlightenment, Liberalism, and Religion
The growing power of the centralized state loomed as the central problem for liberalism in the early nineteenth century, and the works of these three writers…
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Banking
Why is a lecture on banking scheduled for the very first day of Mises University? Because, Jonathan Newman argues, banking is where money gets strange…
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Money
Where does money come from? Sandy Klein walks through the Mengerian answer: not from a king's decree or a social contract, but spontaneously, as traders…
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Entrepreneurship
Why teach entrepreneurship on the first day of Mises University? Because for the Austrians, Peter Klein argues, entrepreneurs aren't niche figures from the…
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The Division of Labor and Social Order
Is a market economy a war of all against all, or the very thing that makes peace possible? Shawn Ritenour makes the Misesian case for the latter. Building from…
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Subjective Value and Market Prices
Jeffrey Herbener builds Austrian price theory from the ground up—starting with the single acting person weighing ends against means, and arriving at Mises's…
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Praxeology
David Gordon lays out praxeology—the science of human action—and the deductive method that sets Austrian economics apart. With characteristic wit, he…
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The Birth of the Austrian School
In the opening lecture of Mises University, Joseph Salerno returns to 1871, when Carl Menger's Principles of Economics launched the Austrian school. Salerno…
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Why Mises University Matters
Opening the 40th Mises University, Professor Hülsmann tells how the Austrian school came back from near-extinction—and why Mises U was central to its revival…
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Major Party Realignment
Mark Thornton looks at the growing strength of democratic socialism inside the Democratic Party and asks whether the United States may be entering another era…
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The Myth of Democratic Socialism
Democratic socialists insist the horrors of the twentieth century were a betrayal of their ideal—that their version would be staffed by good people, to good…
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The Evolution of Politics: From Civic Virtue to Realpolitik
While people claim they want the "virtuous" state with citizens to match, what we really get is realpolitik, whether we want it or not. Original article…
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Keith Knight's Top Ten Problems with Democratic Socialism
Bob sits down with the managing editor of the Libertarian Institute, Keith Knight, to sample arguments from his recent four-hour video cataloguing sixty-four…
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NTD News: Dr. Mark Thornton on why Socialism Doesn't Work
There has been growing interest in democratic socialism, particularly among younger voters and progressive politicians in the United States. NTD discussed this…
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Graham, McConnell, and America's Late-Soviet Politics
On this episode of Power and Market, Ryan, Tho, and Connor discuss the death of Lindsey Graham, the questions around Mitch McConnell, and provide a preview of…
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The Predatory Logic of the State
While we speak highly of “rule of law” and the “limited state,” the unfortunate truth is that the modern state is a law unto itself. Original article…
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The Most Overvalued Stock Market Since 1927?
Is the U.S. stock market more overvalued than at any point in the last 150 years—except for 1927? Mark Thornton, Senior Fellow at the Mises Institute, believes…
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Rothbard’s Definition of Government as Organized Crime: The Microsoft Antitrust Case
Murray Rothbard saw government as a predatory, criminal entity and the Microsoft lawsuit of 1998 proved to be a classic example of government organized crime…
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The Vendée: The French War for National Liberation
To deny local self-determination to the Catholic Vendean rebels was to support the imperialist impulse, just as the opponents of the American revolutionaries…
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The FIFA World Cup: Price Controls on Ticket Prices?
World Cup tickets are a hot commodity with prices through the roof. Naturally, governments want to do what governments always do unsuccessfully: levy price…
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Foucault, Panopticism and the Carceral Society; the Rise of the Surveillance State
The standard narrative is that policing and imprisonment are necessary tools to keep the public safe from criminals. But it also would seem that these things…
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Brokenomics: Austrian Economics with Jonathan Newman
Lotus Eaters podcast host Dan Tubb speaks with Dr. Jonathan Newman about Austrian Economics.
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Why Is the Healthcare System Broken? Speaker Panel
Ryan McMaken, Timothy Terrell, Charles Sauer, and Robert Murphy take questions from the audience on healthcare economics, free market alternatives, and the…
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America’s Gerontocracy Goes Deeper than Aging Politicians
America’s elderly political class is only the most visible symptom. The deeper problem is a government built to transfer wealth from younger Americans to a…
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What the Conservatives Get Wrong about the French Revolution
If avoiding a repeat of the excesses of the French revolution is an important goal, we need a thorough understanding of its causes. Edmund Burke and his…
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How to Fix the Economics of Healthcare
Bob makes the case that American healthcare's dysfunction is not a market failure but a pricing failure manufactured by government. He closes with practical…
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Why Do So Many Intellectuals Hate Free Markets?
Why do so many intellectuals despise the market that sustains them? Ralph Raico weighs Hayek's theory of "scientism" against Schumpeter's portrait of a…