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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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Post-Massie America
On this episode of Power and Market, Ryan, Connor, and Tho discuss the results of the most expensive Congressional race in American history. What does the…
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Buc-ee’s: Free-Market Triumph or Simply Capitalist Oppression?
Buc-ee’s—the roadside travel phenomenon—seems to cater to the extremes in our society. Either customers love shopping at the place or it is yet another symbol…
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A Rothbardian Case Against Bad Data Center Policy
AI has created enormous demand for new data centers, and many communities do not want them nearby. The Rothbardian answer is not blanket permission or blanket…
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Murray N. Rothbard: A Legacy of Liberty
While upholding the radical ideal, Rothbard combined idealism with realism, scholarship with accessibility, and boundless curiosity with commitment to truth…
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Economics: The Sociological Foundation of Civilization
Economics is far more than what people see as “the economy.” It is the central organizing factor for civilized society. Original article…
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The Minerals Consortium Will Result in Malinvestment
Washington is pursuing industrial policy again, this time being an attempt to form a minerals consortium with other countries to secure minerals vital to US…
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Causes of Uncontrollable US Public Spending and Debt
The US fiat monetary regime not only has given us inflation and boom-and-bust cycles, but it also is the main contributor to the out-of-control government…
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Is Deflation Bad for the Economy?
The standard line among most economists is that deflation is as bad or even worse than inflation. In reality, the economy needs deflation now more than ever…
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Why Socialism Fails: From Mises's 1920 Article to Today
Bob sits down with Dr. Jonathan Newman to discuss his Mises Academy course for homeschooling families based on Lessons for the Young Economist, using it as a…
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Price Inflation Accelerates as Wars and Deficits Expand
Last week’s CPI report, and this week’s PPI report both showed price inflation surging to multi-year highs, and not just on oil prices. Original article…
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When a Society Chooses Freedom in an Unfree World
What might be the process of a society moving from being unfree to being free? Here is one scenario. Original article…
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The Bad News from the Latest Employment Report
Ryan McMaken looks at the latest jobs numbers form the federal government and why so many workers and families appear to think the economy is in trouble. Be…
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Rothbard on War, Peace, and the State
Ryan McMaken takes a look at Rothbard's seminal 1963 essay "War, Peace, and the State." We find that Rothbard was no pacifist, but supported defensive violence…
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Predicting Recession
On the latest episode of Minor Issues, Mark Thornton opens with a candid assessment of his own prediction record: what he got right, what he got wrong, and why…
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Why Rothbard Is as Relevant as Ever
Murray Rothbard is one of the all-time greats in Austrian economics and libertarianism. When studying his achievements, we immediately see that Rothbard is a…
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The GOP Fiscal Follies
While Republicans have promised robust economic growth to accompany their tax cuts, reality has been different. That is because Republicans increased…
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Hobbes’s Self-Defeating Theory
With some simple logic and using Hobbes’s own presuppositions and arguments, we can internally critique Hobbes’s argument for the state, namely, that the state…
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Egalitarianism and Value-Free Economics
Dr. Wanjiru Njoya argues that Rothbard's political philosophy is not a sideshow to his economics but its essential second pillar, and that this integrated…
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Making Sense of the Trump Administration's "Hail Mary" on Iran
Bob argues that many Austro-libertarians (himself included, initially) have been too quick to dismiss the Trump administration's foreign and economic policy as…
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Bad Inflation Data Drops While Trump's in China (And Other Headlines)
On this episode of Power & Market, Ryan, Connor, and Tho break down a variety of headlines from the week, including bad inflation data, Trump's trip to China…
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The Job Market Has Only Gotten Worse Since Trump’s “Liberation Day”
In the year since Donald Trump’s “liberation day” in April 2024 fewer Americans are now working, and inflation-adjusted hourly earnings are still below where…
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Today’s AIs Show the Marginal Revolution's Unfinished Business
In 1871, the “discovery” of marginal economic analysis soon took a wrong turn, moving towards quantification, data, and mathematics. It is time to “rediscover”…
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Socialists Are Reaping a Bountiful Political Harvest while They Create Havoc
As the economy faulters, socialists are getting elected, promising free goods and services and an end to the chaos. Even when they make things worse, however…
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The Cost of Money: Coinage, Fiat Power, and the Quiet Corruption of Value
Governments take valuable things like paper and minerals, stamp something on them, and call them money, in the process rendering these things almost worthless…
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Progressives and Conservatives Are Wrong About Taxing the Rich
Both progressives and conservatives show a complete unwillingness or inability to distinguish between those who got rich by genuinely creating value by serving…
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The Economics of War
In this article from 1950, Murray Rothbard suggests some of the less bad ways of financing military operations. Hint: monetary inflation and taxing savings and…
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Marx Was Wrong About the “Necessary” Ruin of Small Landed Property
Karl Marx not only misunderstood value and production, but he also was wrong about large-scale and small-scale property owners. Original article…
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On The Duty Of Natural Outlaws To Shut Up
Who would join a radical minority movement, and commit him- or herself for life to social obloquy and a marginal existence, for the sake of 20% more bathtubs…
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Depopulation Won’t Save Us or the Planet
The recent death of Paul Ehrlich reminds us that his crackpot overpopulation theories still are with us, even as they are being regularly discredited. Original…
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America’s States Are Too Big and Too Centralized
Ryan McMaken argues that the American constitutional structure has become a suicide pact: states cannot secede, cannot protect themselves from neighboring…
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Nations by Consent
Murray Rothbard argues that the nation-state's boundaries—invariably acquired by force—deserve no more sanctity than any other product of conquest. He proposes…
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Nation-States and National Borders
In this episode of Radio Rothbard, Ryan McMaken looks at Rothbard's essay "Nations by Consent: Decomposing the Nation State." The essay provides some key…
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Is Human Action the Hidden Impact Crater of Modern Economics?
The hypothesis of this essay is that Human Action—particularly the first few hundred pages—was instrumental to the new way of economic thinking that emerged…
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Calculation and Environmental Policy: Lessons from Human Action
Mises's response, addressing subsidies more generally, is instructive: "A project P is unprofitable when and because consumers prefer the satisfaction expected…
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Human Action: The Antidote to Progressivism
Chapter 13 from The Influence and Significance of Human Action After 75 Years. Human Action is indispensable for comprehending the operation and consequences…
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Human Action and the Foundations of Economic Prosperity
Hoxie visited New York, and asked Johnson to come to his hotel for the evening. Hoxie "was frightening in his appearance." He told Johnson that he was…
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Mises and Rothbard on Credit Contraction during a Downturn
Individuals' time preferences determine the societal rate of interest, which Mises calls the "originary interest" rate. The rate of interest found in the…
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There's Many a Slip 'twixt Cup and Lip
Mises says, "Life itself is exposed to many risks. At any moment it is endangered by disastrous accidents which cannot be controlled, or at least not…
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Dualism and Calculation: What Mises Taught Me about Economics and Capitalism
All human values are offered for option. All ends and all means, both material and ideal issues, the sublime and the base, the noble and the ignoble, are…
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Property Rights and Entrepreneurial Judgment
Alchian began his seminar by reading a paragraph. It was a paragraph about property, and he asked if anyone in the group could identify it. I was the only one…
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The Challenge of Praxeological Realism
I thought that before turning to the present-day literature, it would be helpful to take a look at the state of monetary thought at the outset of World War I…
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My Discovery of Human Action and of Mises as a Philosopher
While he was never mentioned in West German economic textbooks, his name figured prominently in Commie East Germany. In one of these textbooks, you could also…
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Human Action: Foundations for the Modern Austrian School
Keynesian macroeconomics had displaced Austrian business cycle theory and solidly established itself as mainstream macroeconomics. Meanwhile, most of the…
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Human Action, the Way Forward
The Misesian approach starts with the universal, realistic facts of human persons from which the logic of human action can be deduced. In moving from the logic…
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Ludwig von Mises's Epicurean Ethics
To understand Mises's position on ethics, it is essential to bear in mind that he is a psychological hedonist. He thinks everyone is always motivated by…
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How Human Action Shaped My Teaching and Research Career
This, of course, is great news for the Austrian School, where anyone in the world can do what Gordon Tullock did and become his own economist by reading Human…
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The Law of Association: Foundation of Human Society
In Human Action, Ludwig von Mises transforms the law of comparative advantage from a tool used to analyze international trade questions to a tool used at every…
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Preface to The Influence and Significance of Human Action After 75 Years
Human Action is more than a book about economics broadly construed. It is a guide to civilized social life which elucidates the laws of reality that apply if…
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The Petrodollar Cracks, the Skyscraper Stalls, and the Commodity Firestorm
Mark Thornton opens this episode with a strategic assessment of the war's economic fallout: not the headlines, but the second- and third-order effects that are…
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Where California Went Wrong
Bill Anderson offers a ground-level view of California's decline, arguing that the state's deep entanglement of government with water, energy, housing, and…
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Hobbes’s State: “Why Are You Hitting Yourself?”
To complain against the state’s actions, argues Hobbes, is to ultimately complain against yourself because you originally authorized the state through social…
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Unnatural Disasters: How the State Makes Wildfires Bigger and Deadlier
Connor O'Keeffe argues that California's wildfire crisis is not simply a climate story but a government failure story. The state has monopolized nearly all…
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The Great Gerrymander War
On this episode of Power & Market, Ryan, Tho, and Connor discuss the escalating battle over Congressional districts. As Republicans and Democrats engage in an…
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How to Change the World: Entrepreneurship versus Politics
Entrepreneurship is a voluntary undertaking that causes change by providing value. No force, no threats, and no coercion are involved. It is market action…
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How Democratic Socialism Created California’s Housing Crisis
Chris Calton links California's housing crisis to three books published in the 1960s that spawned three ideological movements — the democratization of urban…
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What Happened to the University of California?
Peter Klein traces the ideological transformation of the UC system from a world-class research institution to a cautionary tale of government-subsidized…
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Where California Went Wrong
California has been seen as the nation’s “Promised Land” for many years, but in the past 25 years, people have left due to high housing costs and high taxes…
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The President Goes to War
Of course the president, like everyone, frequently protests his desire for peace. Everyone does this. And I think we may assume he is quite sincere about it…
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How Antitrust Populists Drove Spirit Airlines Out of Business
Antitrust populists claimed blocking the Spirit–JetBlue merger would protect competition and consumers. But their effort led to an intervention that…
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The MBS Slope n’ Swap
If executed perfectly, this swap allows the Fed to neutralize a shrinking money supply by swapping $2 trillion in mortgages for $2 trillion in government debt…