Authors Forum: Property, Freedom & Society

Recorded 11 March 2010 at the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.

Authors Forum: Property, Freedom & Society

Recorded 11 March 2010 at the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.

Wage Earners and Employers

Recorded on 10 May 1962, and aired on 17 May 1962 during the intermission of the U.S. Steel Concert Hour.  Mises had been asked to respond to the question: "Are the interests of the American wage earners in conflict with those of their employers, or are the two in agreement?"  This rare recording of Mises is made available through the generosity of Bettina Bien Greaves. [5:55]

1. The First Philosopher-Economists: the Greeks

1. The First Philosopher-Economists: the Greeks Various Artists Economic Thought Before Adam Smith

Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements Various Artists Economic Thought Before Adam Smith

Introduction

Introduction Various Artists Economic Thought Before Adam Smith

XVII. Indirect Exchange (continued)

XVII. Indirect Exchange (continued) Various Artists Human Action: A Treatise on Economics

XVII. Indirect Exchange (continued)

XVII. Indirect Exchange (continued) Various Artists Human Action: A Treatise on Economics

XVI. Prices (continued)

XVI. Prices (continued) Various Artists Human Action: A Treatise on Economics

XXI. Work and Wages (continued)

XXI. Work and Wages (continued) Various Artists Human Action: A Treatise on Economics

XX. Interest, Credit Expansion, and the Trade Cycle (continued)

XX. Interest, Credit Expansion, and the Trade Cycle (continued) Various Artists Human Action: A Treatise on Economics

XVIII. Action in the Passing of Time (continued)

XVIII. Action in the Passing of Time (continued) Various Artists Human Action: A Treatise on Economics

XV. The Market (continued)

XV. The Market (continued) Various Artists Human Action: A Treatise on Economics

XV. The Market (continued)

XV. The Market (continued) Various Artists Human Action: A Treatise on Economics

The Role of Freedom in Economic Well Being: A Look at Evidence

Recorded at San Jose State University; September 25, 2003 [56:54]

The Classical Liberal Theory of Empire

Mises in 1919

The Firm vs. Nationalism

The Anti-Imperialist League and the Battle Against Empire

The New Global Marketplace

Taxation, Inflation, and War

Small States, Global Economy

A Libertarian Gallop Through American History

A Libertarian Gallop Through American History

350 Years of Economic Theory in 50 Minutes

350 Years of Economic Theory in 50 Minutes

How States Fall and Liberty Triumphs

Profit, Loss and the Entrepreneur (video)

Price Controls: Case Studies (video)

The Determination of Prices (video)

Exchange and Demand (video)

Scarcity, Choice, and Value (video)

8. Welfare and the Welfare State

Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach [1:24:23]

7. Education

Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach [1:06:58]

The Core of What Economics Teaches

Hosted at the Mises Institute on 30 April 2010. Sponsored by Jeremy S. Davis.

How High Can the Price of Gold Go?

Brown Bag Seminar; Recorded at the Mises Institute on February 10, 2005. [1:01:20]

Ludwig von Mises as a Laissez-faire Radical: The Quest for the Historical Mises

From the Libertarian Heritage Series, sponsored by the Center for Libertarian Studies; October 16, 1981. [32:59]

The Road to Serfdom

Finally, here is an edition of Road to Serfdom that does justice to its monumental status in the history of liberty. It contains a foreword by the editor of the Hayek Collected Works, Bruce Caldwell. Caldwell has added helpful explanatory notes and citation corrections, among other improvements. For this reason, the publisher decided to call this "the definitive edition." It truly is.

This spell-binding book is a classic in the history of liberal ideas. It was singularly responsible for launching an important debate on the relationship between political and economic freedom. It made the author a world-famous intellectual. It set a new standard for what it means to be a dissident intellectual. It warned of a new form of despotism enacted in the name of liberation. And though it appeared in 1944, it continues to have a remarkable impact. No one can consider himself well-schooled in modern political ideas without having absorbed its lessons.

What F.A. Hayek saw, and what most all his contemporaries missed, was that every step away from the free market and toward government planning represented a compromise of human freedom generally and a step toward a form of dictatorship--and this is true in all times and places. He demonstrated this against every claim that government control was really only a means of increasing social well-being. Hayek said that government planning would make society less liveable, more brutal, more despotic. Socialism in all its forms is contrary to freedom.

Nazism, he wrote, is not different in kind from Communism. Further, he showed that the very forms of government that England and America were supposedly fighting abroad were being enacted at home, if under a different guise. Further steps down this road, he said, can only end in the abolition of effective liberty for everyone.

Capitalism, he wrote, is the only system of economics compatible with human dignity, prosperity, and liberty. To the extent we move away from that system, we empower the worst people in society to manage what they do not understand.

The beauty of this book is not only in its analytics but in its style, which is unrelenting and passionate. Even today, the book remains a source of controversy. Socialists who imagine themselves to be against dictatorship cannot abide his argument, and they never stop attempting to refute it.

Misesians might find themselves disappointed that Hayek did not go far enough, and made too many compromises in the course of his argument. Even so, anyone who loves liberty cannot but feel a sense of gratitude that this book exists and remains an important part of the debate today.

The Mises Institute was honored that Hayek served as a founding member of our board of advisers, and is very pleased to offer this book again to a world that desperately needs to hear its message.

Mises: The Musical

This musical reconstruction of a setting from the Mises Circle in the interwar years, was performed at the Austrian Scholars Conference 2005: its debut! The stars are members of the senior faculty of the Mises Institute. The original German texts by Felix Kaufmann have been rendered in English. Enjoy! [38:17]

Money, Banking and the Federal Reserve

Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson understood "The Monster". But to most Americans today, Federal Reserve is just a name on the dollar bill. They have no idea of what the central bank does to the economy, or to their own economic lives; of how and why it was founded and operates; or of the sound money and banking that could end the statism, inflation, and business cycles that the Fed generates.

Dedicated to Murray N. Rothbard, steeped in American history and Austrian economics, and featuring Ron Paul, Joseph Salerno, Hans Hoppe, and Lew Rockwell, this extraordinary new film is the clearest, most compelling explanation ever offered of the Fed, and why curbing it must be our first priority.

Alan Greenspan is not, we're told, happy about this 42-minute blockbuster. Watch it, and you'll understand why. This is economics and history as they are meant to be: fascinating, informative, and motivating. This movie could change America.

(NTSC format for DVD) or (NTSC format for US VCRs)

The Costs of a Gold Standard

Roger W. Garrison talks about The Costs of a Gold Standard at  the Capitol Hill Conference on the Gold Standard: An Austrian Perspective in 1983.

Value, Utility, and Price

Value, Utility, and Price Various Artists Mises University 2009

Value, Utility, and Price

Value, Utility, and Price Various Artists Mises University 2009

The Gilded Age and the Gold Standard

The Gilded Age and the Gold Standard Thomas DiLorenzo The Gold Standard Revisited

Inflation and the Bolsheviks

Inflation and the Bolsheviks. Yuri Maltsev, editor of Marxism Unmasked and a Russian economist in the last days of the Soviet state, explains the hidden history of inflation in Russia before the revolution. Inflation crippled society and destabilized the

How Abolishing the Fed Would Change Everything (for the better)

How Abolishing the Fed Would Change Everything (for the better) Llewellyn H. Rockwell. Jr. The Gold Standard Revisited

The Founding of The Federal Reserve

Recorded in Houston, Texas; October 27, 1984. [1:04:58]

The Founding of The Federal Reserve

Recorded in Houston, Texas; October 27, 1984. [1:04:58]

Skyscrapers and Business Cycles

Skyscrapers and Business Cycles Mark Thornton Our Enemy, Inflation

The Gold Dollar

The Gold Dollar Llewellyn H. Rockwell. Jr. Our Enemy, Inflation