Presented by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. at “The Failure of the Keynesian State,” the Mises Circle in Houston, sponsored by Jeremy S. Davis. Recorded Saturday, 23 January 2010. Includes introductory and closing remarks by former Mises Institute president Douglas E.
Economics offers the knowledge that there exist impenetrable conditions that pen us in and knowledge of conditions under which the human imagination can create miracles. Markets will make lives abundant as long as government stays out of the way. Price fixing, privilege-granting, taxation, Fed fixing of interest rates and other such interventions
The Donald and Linda Miller Lecture, presented at the 2012 Mises Institute Supporters Summit. Recorded at Callaway Gardens, Georgia, on 26 October 2012.
Rockwell’s book is as pro-liberty as it is brutally critical of government. It is relentlessly forthright yet hopeful about the prospects for liberty. Narrated by Lew Rockwell.
If the hallmark of conventional economics is unrealistic models, the hallmark of Austrian economics is a profound appreciation of the price system. Prices provide us with critical information about the relative scarcity of goods and services. This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon. Narrated by Michael Stack. Original
The Mises Institute is honored to be taking over the public action of The Journal of Libertarian Studies , one of the most important scholarly journals to appear in the history of ideas. In a market too often dominated by conventional wisdom, academic log-rolling, and risk-averse research with no practical application, the JLS, from its inception
The Free Market 24, no. 12 (December 2004) H ans F. Sennholz, winner of the 2004 Gary G. Schlarbaum Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Liberty, is one of the handful of economists who dared defend free markets and sound money during the dark years before the Misesian revival. He did so with eloquence, precision, and brilliance. He has never tired
The Free Market 26, no. 7 (July 2005) The 20th century was a time when the world sang the praises of despots and despotism. The more wars government leaders fought, the more they centralized their control, the more they hobbled the economy, the more liberty they stole, the more they cut off trade and exchange with other nations, the more their
The Free Market 26, no. 9 (September 2005) [Originally written as an introduction to For A New Liberty] There are many varieties of libertarianism alive in the world today, and they owe a great debt to the work of Ludwig von Mises. His top American student was Murray N. Rothbard, and Rothbardianism remains the center of its intellectual gravity,
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