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Faculty Panel: Theory and Method
Featuring Mark Thornton, David Gordon, Jeffrey Herbener, Peter Klein, Jonathan Newman, Shawn Ritenour, and Joseph Salerno. Recorded at the Mises Institute in…
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Higher Education in Crisis
Higher education signaling, grade inflation, federal aid and student debt, free speech, and university bureaucracy. Download the slides from this lecture at…
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The Fallacy of Market Monetarism
The original monetarists (Milton Friedman), Scott Sumner, and problems with market monetarism. Download the slides from this lecture at Mises.org/MU22_PPT_38…
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Toleration Does Not Require Calling Evil Good
Bombing private property is bad. So, when someone bombed the pro-eugenics, antihuman Georgia "guidestones," we naturally condemned the bombing. But let's not…
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Economic Aftereffects of Covid
Is it all bad news? There is still entrepreneurship. There is still innovation. Download the slides from this lecture at Mises.org/MU22_PPT_27. Recorded at the…
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Hyperinflation
There are two very effective ways to destroy an economy: hyperinflation and central planning. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 28 July…
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Like the Fed, the ECB Is Still a Long Way from "Normal" Monetary Policy
It's going to take more than a 0 percent policy interest rate and a newly invented name for QE to really address years of monetary inflation. Original Article…
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Markets and Medical Care
Terrell discusses impacts of price controls, occupational licensure, the FDA, and more. Download the slides from this lecture at Mises.org/MU22_PPT_29…
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Political Economy of Imperialism
Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 28 July 2022.
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Price Inflation: Corona vs. QE
High CPI inflation, popular explanations and their problems, and M1 vs. M2. Download the slides from this lecture at Mises.org/MU22_PPT_33. Recorded at the…
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The Fallacy of Calls for a "Manhattan Project" to Solve National Economic Challenges
Politicians, academics, and the media often call for a new Manhattan Project to deal with economic issues. But there is a huge difference between technological…
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Why Murray Rothbard Is a Great Economist
A brief biography of Rothbard and his important works, and a survey of some of his contributions to economics. Download the slides from this lecture at…
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Austrian Alternatives to Conventional Economic Statistics
Good theory leads to better statistics and better predictions. Download the slides from this lecture at Mises.org/MU22_PPT_19. Recorded at the Mises Institute…
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Causes and Consequences of Modern Monetary Theory
Lucas Engelhardt summarizes the basics of Modern Monetary Theory. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 27 July 2022.
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Free Trade vs. Protectionism
Free trade allows for maximizing total number of mutually beneficial exchangers and promotes economic progress. Download the slides from this lecture at…
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If Government Can Take from One Group, It Can and Will Take from Everyone
While governments have been assaulting private property rights for many years, they now are ramping up the pressure. Nothing less than our civilization is at…
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Interest Rate Tightening Will Cause Even More Economic Destruction
Rather than contributing to a "soft landing," raising interest rates will continue to destroy wealth. Original Article: "Interest Rate Tightening Will Cause…
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Progressivism and Economic Destructionism
Socialism does not build, it destroys. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 27 July 2026.
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The Political Economy of Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Download the slides from this lecture at Mises.org/MU22_PPT_25. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 27 July 2022.
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The True Cost of Regulations
Few people understand how destructive regulations are. Download the slides from this lecture at Mises.org/MU22_PPT_24. Recorded at the Mises Institute in…
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Wokeness and Big Tech
Do these characteristics give rise to monopoly power? Download the slides from this lecture at Mises.org/MU22_PPT_20. Recorded at the Mises Institute in…
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Austrian Capital Theory
Capital is the starting point of economic calculation. Download the slides from this lecture at Mises.org/MU22_PPT_13. Recorded at the Mises Institute in…
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Calculation and Socialism
In 1920, Ludwig von Mises destroyed the intellectual foundations of the case for socialist central planning. Download the slides from this lecture at…
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College Conference Switching as Secession? A Case Study in "Nations by Consent"
One way to interpret Southern Cal and UCLA's move to switch conferences and join the Big 10 is as a form of peaceful secession. Original Article: "College…
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Competition and Monopoly
Government attempts to limit “monopoly power” cannot improve well-being. Download the slides from this lecture at Mises.org/MU22_PPT_15. Recorded at the Mises…
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Critical Race Theory: Academic Malfeasance and Fraudulence
CRT is what happens when methodological individualism is abandoned and replaced by “systems” and “structures” that apparently do everything while actual people…
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Minimum Wage
There is no clear basis in economics, ethics, efficiency, or fairness for Minimum Wage Laws. Download the slides from this lecture at Mises.org/MU22_PPT_16…
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The Austrian Theory of the Business Cycle
Download the slides from this lecture at Mises.org/MU22_PPT_14. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 26 July 2022.
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The Dirty Data of Declining Labor Share Myths
Less and less and less? Download the slides from this lecture at Mises.org/MU22_PPT_17. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 26 July 2022.
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The Theory of Interest
Time is an irreversible flux. Each moment has a unique place in the sequence of moments of time with respect to action. Download the slides from this lecture…
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Banking
Download the slides from this lecture at Mises.org/MU22_PPT_06. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 25 July 2022.
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Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship is a general feature of the market economy. Download the slides from this lecture at Mises.org/MU22_PPT_07. Recorded at the Mises Institute in…
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Hotter than the Sun: Finally, a Book Worth Reading
Even though the Cold War ended three decades ago, the threat of nuclear war still hangs over us. Scott Horton reminds us that preventing nuclear war should…
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Libertarian Law by Democratic Means: A Method for Conflict Resolution
What is libertarian law and how does it function? Ludwig von Mises answered some of those questions and helped chart a path to achieving such a state of…
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Money
"We would not expect money to be paper, national, or under the control of any entity." Download the slides from this lecture at Mises.org/MU22_PPT_05. Recorded…
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Praxeology
Praxeology is the method of economics. Download the slides from this lecture at Mises.org/MU22_PPT_03. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on…
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Subjective Value and Market Prices
This concept of economic calculation is really the foundation of all economic theory, and price theory is the cornerstone of economic calculation. Download…
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The Birth of the Austrian School
Menger discovered much more than the principle of marginal utility—he created an entire system of economics based on subjective value and individual choice…
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The Division of Labor and Social Order
"The free market and the division of labor does not promote hyper-atomized individuals. It creates social harmony and community." Download the slides from this…
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An Evening with Clifton Duncan
Includes an introduction by Jeff Deist. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 24 July 2021.
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Nozick on Morality and Evolution
It is hard to explain through evolution how we know any necessary truths. Does this give us reason to abandon necessary truth? Nozick thinks so. Original…
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We Need More Inequality, Not Less
Progressives claim that inequality is causing poverty and making people's lives worse. In reality, inequality leads to better economic outcomes overall and…
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Welcome and Opening Remarks
Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 24 July 2021.
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Inflation Hits 9.1 Percent after Months of Empty Talk at the Fed
June was the fifteenth month in a row during which price inflation outpaced earnings growth. June's gap is also among the biggest we've seen in decades…
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Like the Old McCarthyism, the New McCarthyism Targets Russia
In the 1950s, McCarthyism targeted people who were accused of supporting Russia. Today's McCarthyism targets people accused of supporting … Russia. Some things…
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Connor Boyack & the Case for Revisionist History
Connor Boyack, author of the new Tuttle Twins book America's History: 1215-1776, joins the show to make the Rothbardian case for de-bamboozling history…
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Consumers, Workers, and Monopolies: Free Markets Serve All
The ruling class is claiming that free markets are nothing more than a "trickle-down" scheme. But a free market system really does serve society best. Original…
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The Fall of the New World Order? with Marcel Gautreau
On this episode of Radio Rothbard, Tho Bishop is joined by Mises Research Fellow Marcel Gautreau for a wide-ranging conversation about challenges to the…
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The Fed Cannot Go Bankrupt; However, It Can Bankrupt the Country
The Keynesians running our economic life may be reassured that the Fed cannot fail in a technical sense, but the public should be appalled. Original Article…
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Argentina's Difficult Political Landscape and Libertarian Prospects for Change
Once wealthy Argentina has suffered under one interventionist regime after another for nearly a century. What are the prospects for changing things for the…
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The Industrial Revolution and the West Indies: Did the Colonies Spark Progress in the Metropole?
The West Indies played a vital role in growing the British economy in the eighteenth century. Original Article: "The Industrial Revolution and the West Indies…
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China's Draconian Lockdown Policies: Major Consequences to Follow
In an attempt to stymie the spread of covid-19, the Chinese government has imposed reckless and harmful lockdown policies in several cities. This will not end…
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Turns Out the Elites Like the Administrative State Better than Democracy
The New York Times claims that the "administrative state"—that is, governance by unelected bureaucrats—protects our country and enhances democracy. Original…
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Federalism, Not Centralization, Is the Way out of the Current Conflicts
Since the overturning of Roe v. Wade, pundits on the Left have demanded even more centralization of government. But federalism is the best way forward…
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SCOTUS Attacked Indian Tribe Sovereignty in Castro-Huerta, and That's a Bad Thing.
Indian tribe sovereignty has long been a much neglected, yet important, tool in decentralizing and limiting government power in the US. Original Article…
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Is the Constitution a Centralizing or Decentralizing Document?
People often speak of the Constitution with reverence, as though it were infallible. However, the Constitution was a centralizing document that cast aside the…
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More than Sixty Years after "Liberation," Cuba Is a Communist Slave State
More than sixty years after being "liberated" by Fidel Castro and communism, Cuba has become a large slave state where people enjoy little freedom. Original…