Recent Podcast Episodes

Edward Stringham presents Anarchism as a Research Paradigm at the 2006 Austrian Scholars Conference.

Josef Sima presents the Ludwig von Mises Memorial Lecture: The Quest for a Property-Based, Misesian Econom

William Anderson presents the Henry Hazlitt Memorial Lecture: An Austrian Analysis of th

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Hans-Hermann Hoppe presents The Economics and Ethics of Private Property at the 2006 Austrian Scholars Conference.

Robert Higgs presents War, Fear, and Trembling at the 2006 Austrian Scholars Conference.

When money was a public passion—and why it should be again.

A price is never just a price—and Washington keeps distorting it.

Why these are speeches, not a treatise—and why that matters.

The one school that actually answers economics' deepest question.

Every intervention backfires. The market's quiet genius is why.

Recorded at the Mises Circle in Houston, 4 March 2006.

Recorded at the Mises Circle in Houston, 4 March 2006.

Recorded at Mises University 2005.

We are living through a revolutionary moment, seeing the collapse of socialism at the end of the Twentieth Century.  Socialism lost its moral legitimacy. The force of modern technology required markets.

Presented to the Auburn University Libertarians; Auburn, Alabama, on 19 January 2005.

Carl Menger, 1840-1921, founded Austrian economics. Eugen von Bohm-Bawerk was the most important student.  Weiser was his brother-in-law, but was fairly pre-Keynesian. Mises was the great successor to Bohn-Bawerk.

The roots of Marxism were in messianic communism. Marx’s devotion to communism was his crucial point.  Violent, worldwide revolution, in Marx’s version made by the oppressed proletariat, would be the instrument of the advent of his millennium, communism.

The essence of Austrian economics is based on the analysis of individual action. In other words, it is about individuals doing things, having purposes and goals and pursuing them. Other schools of economics deal with aggregates, groups, classes, wholes of one sort or another, without focusing on the individual first and building up from there.

Richard Cantillon was quite Misesian before Mises. He wrote of utility theory and the entrepreneur’s uncertainty in the 1970s. Cantillon was a great money practitioner. He became a bank and banker to the Jacobite Stuart line and to John Law who launched paper money inflation.