"Parity" Prices

"Parity" Prices Various Artists Economics in One Lesson

"The Humanist Perspective," with Guest Walter Block

02. The Origin and Decline of the Austrian School: Menger, Böhm-Bawerk, and Wieser (video)

Video version of Joseph Salerno discussing The Origin and Decline of the Austrian School: Menger, Böhm-Bawerk, and Wieser at the Austrian School of Economics: Revisionist History and Contemporary Theory seminar on June 6th, 2005 at the Mises Institute.

2007 Dux Academicus Award

2007 Dux Academicus Award acceptance speech. Nominated by colleagues, students, and former students, Block was chosen for his leadership, outstanding achievements in teaching and scholarship, and notable contributions to the quality of life in the Loyola community.

33 Questions on American History

33 Questions on American History Thomas E. Woods, Jr. Austrian Scholars Conference 2008

A Chronicle of Limitless Failures of Government

A Chronicle of Limitless Failures of Government Martin Fridson Austrian Scholars Conference 2008

A New Currency for the World

A New Currency for the World Joseph Salerno Choice in Currency: A Path to Sound Money

A Pro-Free-Market Program for Economic Recovery

A Pro-Free-Market Program for Economic Recovery Various Artists Economic Downturn: Cause and Cure

A Short History of a Book Publishing Phenom

A Short History of a Book Publishing Phenom Jeffrey Tucker The Gold Standard Revisited

Abraham Lincoln

Anti-Trust and Monopoly

Applying Economics to American History

Applying Economics to American History Various Artists Economics for High School Students

Are Business Schools to Blame?

Are Business Schools to Blame? Various Artists Economic Downturn: Cause and Cure

Austrian Monetary Economics

Pascal Salin, the great French monetary theorist and classical liberal, explains the evolution of his monetary thought from neoclassical to Austrian, especially in light of the European monetary experience. This presentation was the Schlarbaum Award lectu

Banking and the Business Cycle

This rare study by C.A. Phillips, together with T.F. McManus and R.W. Nelson, appeared in 1937 as an Austrian-style analysis of the stock market crash and the great depression that followed.

It explores the many theories tossed about at the time, and concludes that the theory "here developed may be called a 'central banking' explanation of the depression. The depth and duration of the depression are held to be the ineluctable consequences of the preceding boom. That boom could never have lasted as long as it did, nor could it have assumed the proportions it attained, under the old National Banking System. The boom and depression were therefore proximately caused by central bank credit expansion."

We can see, then, why Austrian economists have long held this book in high esteem, though it has been nearly impossible to find for many years. Murray Rothbard himself picked it as among the 20 most significant economics books of the 20th century.

Block Defends Against Charges of Racism and Sexism

Sponsored by the Economics Club of Loyola University, New Orleans, on 25 March 2009. Block clarifies remarks made in a speech at Loyola College of Maryland on 6 November 2008, and reacts to the charges that have been made against him by the Loyola New Orleans University Diversity Task Force.  [2:03:13]

BookTV: The Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism

Dr. Murphy discusses his book The Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism on CSPAN2's BookTV television program. Originally recorded on June 22, 2007. [37:12]

Booms and Busts

Booms and Busts Doug French Choice in Currency: A Path to Sound Money

Bubbles Made of Paper: Then and Now

Bubbles Made of Paper: Then and Now Doug French The Gold Standard Revisited

Burton S. Blumert (1929-2009)

A memorial video montage of former Mises Institute chairman, Burton Blumert. [2:43]

Capital, Interest and the Structure of Production

Capital, Interest and the Structure of Production Joseph Salerno Fundamentals of Economic Analysis: A Causal-Realist Approach

Capital, Monetary Calculation, and the Trade Cycle: The Importance of Sound Money

John P. Cochran discusses "Capital, Monetary Calculation, and the Trade Cycle: The Importance of Sound Money" at the 2003 Austrian Scholars Conference.

Christianity and War

A main support group for Bush's "war on terror" and war on Iraq and other nations were evangelical Christians. They cited a religious justification for attacking Islam and claim Biblical and moral support for their position. They were the firmest warfare statists in Bush's ideological arsenal.

Laurence Vance shares their religious position but not their politics. He grappled with them throughout the decade, and through this struggle wrote a book that closely examines the moral responsibilities of religious people in times of war. He points out that to sign on to war means endorsing the most grim aspect of the state, including its lies and theft and mass death.

Vance paid a high personal price for his writings, which are gathered in this excellent book. He lost his teaching position at a Bible college. But in doing so, he has also left all future generations of Christians an excellent defense of a truly historical Christian position in favor of peace and freedom.

The book is 432 pages and sure to rattle the evangelical establishment for many years to come.

Competition and Monopoly

Competition and Monopoly Peter Klein Fundamentals of Economic Analysis: A Causal-Realist Approach

Creating the Next Great Depression

Creating the Next Great Depression Various Artists Economic Downturn: Cause and Cure

Credit Diverts Production

Credit Diverts Production Various Artists Economics in One Lesson

Death Fuel

Robert Higgs, author of Depression, War, and Cold War, explains the economics of inflation in light of historical experience. In particular, he explains the relationship between inflation and war. The killing state and the printing press need each other.

Disbanding Troops and Bureaucrats

Disbanding Troops and Bureaucrats Various Artists Economics in One Lesson

End the Fed

A blast against central banking this powerful hasn't been seen since the 19th century. The Fed itself has never been subjected to such a whithering critique. And it is from a man who has been fighting the Fed his entire political career. in fact, several chapters here provide documentary evidence of Congressman Paul's own verbal exchanges with Chairman Greenspan and Chairman Bernanke.

What is especially impressive here is that Paul's book goes far beyond old-time populist attacks on the banking elites. He understands Austrian theory as well as anyone, and he has learned from Mises and the whole of his tradition. So here we find patient explanation of the workings of the Fed and how it has distorted the legitimate business of banking, through every manner of intervention.

The political analysis in here is sound but expected. The theoretical analysis is the robust part, and something that few politicians in U.S. history could have provided. In this sense, Ron Paul is unique: courage in public service combined with intellectual rigor. This combination has made him a machine in opposition to the Fed, and this is by far his best presentation of the subject.

It turns up the heat on the Fed as never before. He shows that the central bank bears a large responsibility for the creation of the Leviathan state. It has wrecked our money, funded ghastly wars, and made possible the creation of the social welfare state that is bankrupting us financially and making the population dependent on the state. It has given rise to economic crisis and turmoil of all sorts.

Paul also offers a realistic plan for abolishing the Fed, if not immediately then with incremental steps to reduce its power and eliminate its dominance in American economic life.

Paul wrote this book as a personal statement. But it serves two additional purposes. It educates. And it inspires toward effective action.

Entrepreneurship Under the Gold Standard

Entrepreneurship Under the Gold Standard Peter G. Klein The Gold Standard Revisited

Exchange and Demand

Exchange and Demand Joseph Salerno Fundamentals of Economic Analysis: A Causal-Realist Approach

Fascism, Anti-Fascism, and the Welfare State (video)

Five Best Books on the Current Crisis

Five Best Books on the Current Crisis Various Artists Economic Downturn: Cause and Cure

Gold and the Good Guys: A Short History of American Thinkers on Money

Gold and the Good Guys: A Short History of American Thinkers on Money Thomas E. Woods, Jr. The Gold Standard Revisited

Gold is Free Market Money

Gold is Free Market Money Walter Block The Gold Standard Revisited

Government as Window Breaker: Hazlitt's Lesson Reapplied

Government as Window Breaker: Hazlitt's Lesson Reapplied Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. The Mises Circle: Great Economic Myths

Hayek Speaks to Europe

Hayek Speaks to Europe Lorenzo Infantino Austrian Scholars Conference 2008

How Private Markets Can Provide Money

How Private Markets Can Provide Money Walter Block Choice in Currency: A Path to Sound Money

How States Fall and Liberty Triumphs

How the Fed is Retarding Recovery

How the Fed is Retarding Recovery Various Artists Economic Downturn: Cause and Cure

How The Price System Works

How The Price System Works Various Artists Economics in One Lesson

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

Inflation in Recent Monetary History

Inflation in Recent Monetary History Joseph T. Salerno The Gold Standard Revisited

Katrina and Socialist Central Planning (video)

Liberty and Economics: The Ludwig von Mises Legacy

What kind of man was Ludwig von Mises? Here is a film that does justice to this extraordinary man, and to his equally extraordinary ideas. [37:49]

Minimum Wage Laws

Minimum Wage Laws Various Artists Economics in One Lesson

Mises Circle: Presentation to Mises University

The Mises Circle Steve Berger Mises Univeristy

Mises.org vs. The State (video)

Monetary Freedom and its Opposite

Monetary Freedom and its Opposite Mark Thornton The Gold Standard Revisited

Monetary Lessons from America's Past

Monetary Lessons from America's Past Thomas E. Woods, Jr. Our Enemy, Inflation