Scott Horton Interviews Thomas E. Woods, Jr.

Rights and Income Security

James Rice (McMaster Univeristy) and Walter Block (Fraser Institute) discuss Rights and Income Security. Recorded at the University of Victoria Public Forum; October 1988 [1:58:10]

How Empires Bamboozle the Bourgeoisie

How States Fall and Liberty Triumphs

The Current State of World Affairs

Includes a Question and Answer session after the speech.

The Current State of World Affairs

Includes a Question and Answer session after the speech.

14. War and Foreign Policy

Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach [1:34:45]

13. Conservation, Ecology, and Growth

Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach [59:00]

12. The Public Sector, III: Police, Law, and the Courts

Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach [1:20:34]

11. The Public Sector, II: Streets and Roads

Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach [37:11]

10. The Public Sector, I: Government in Business

Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach [18:45]

9. Inflation and the Business Cycle: The Collapse of the Keynesian Paradigm

Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach [1:13:05]

8. Welfare and the Welfare State

Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach [1:24:23]

6. Personal Liberty

Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach [1:13:02]

5. Involuntary Servitude

Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach [43:01]

4. Libertarian Applications to Current Problems: The Problems

Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach [17:02]

3. The State

Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach [1:14:53]

2. The Libertarian Creed: Property and Exchange

Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach [1:10:29]

1. The Libertarian Heritage: The American Revolution and Classical Liberalism

Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach [59:12]

Introduction

Introduction Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. For A New Liberty

Can The Monetary System Regulate Itself?

Presented at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee; 9 March 2009. This video is made available by Art Carden. [51:11]

The Issue of Tariffs: How U.S. Revenue Collection Was Turned Inside-Out

Brown Bag Seminar, Mises Institute; May 19, 2005. The handouts from this lecture are available for Download (in PDF). [58:57]

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.

Harry Truman and the Imperial Presidency

[43:26]

The Gold Dollar

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

Left, Right, and the Prospects for Liberty

For many who have read this book-length essay, it marked a turning point in a new understanding.

The mainstream will forever attempt to pigeonhole belief systems based on the left-right dichotomy. The right supposedly favors economic freedom plus militarism, while the left favors socialism plus peace. Rothbard says that this breakdown is not only incoherent, it has no support in the history of ideas.

In fact, Rothbard goes further to say that traditionally, the right has been the party of the establishment, of stasis, of the status quo, while the left in history has been the party of progress, freedom, and peace. These roles have periodically reversed based on the times and the country in question. But in these reversals, the intellectual coherence of these paradigms has gotten lost and confused.

Rothbard's broad look is a mind-opening experience. It has the effect of liberating you from the prevailing paradigm.

Rothbard's main task, however, is to provide a completely new and ideologically consistent lens with which to view history and current events.

"For the libertarian, the main task of the present epoch is to cast off his needless and debilitating pessimism, to set his sights on long-run victory and to set about the road to its attainment," he writes. "To do this, he must, perhaps first of all, drastically realign his mistaken view of the ideological spectrum; he must discover who his friends and natural allies are, and above all perhaps, who his enemies are. Armed with this knowledge, let him proceed in the spirit of radical long-run optimism that one of the great figures in the history of libertarian thought, Randolph Bourne, correctly identified as the spirit of youth."

The Incredible Bread Machine Film

A film by Theo Kamecke. Written by Karl Keating, Susan Love Brown, Patrea Post and Stuart Smith. Released in 1975. [29:46]

Zamyatin Foresaw Totalitarianism and the Politics of Sex

Floy Lilley is an adjunct scholar at the Mises Institute. She was formerly with the University of Texas at Austin's Chair of Free Enterprise, and an attorney-at-law in Texas and Florida.

Five Best Books on the Current Crisis

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

Five Best Books on the Current Crisis

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

My Battle Against the Fed

Jekyll Island, Georgia; 27 January 2010.

Gold, Peace, and Prosperity

Revised Pocket Edition! The second edition of Gold, Peace, and Prosperity is just 4.25" x .4" x 7 " in size. Truly portable and available at volume discounts. The book has been newly type set and all images updated. This is the perfect handout for education of the gold standard.

The book is a quick read that covers the whole history of monetary destruction, providing information that most people have never heard or thought about. In that sense, it is the perfect conversation starter, and it could inspire more reading and activism for sound money.

We produced this beautiful edition for the broadest distribution - an effort to popularize and universalize the cause of sound money.

Author Ron Paul has been the leading champion of sound money in the Congress. He explains why sound money has meant the gold standard. The monograph is written in the clearest possible terms with the goal of explaining the basics of paper money and its effects of inflation, business cycles, and government growth.

He maps out a plan to bring about a dollar that is as good as gold, one that would be protected against manipulation by government and central bankers. Part of that strategy is the minting of a new gold one but the more far-reaching plan involves a redefinition of the dollar and complete monetary competition. This monograph first appeared in 1981, and it has been in wide distribution ever since. But we've never had an edition this beautiful, this affordable, and this handy.

Second Edition
Foreword by Henry Hazlitt
Preface by Murray Rothbard

Mises and Austrian Economics: A Personal View

Ron Paul deserves a high place in the history of liberty for being the only seriously principled statesman to serve in the US House of Representatives in the last quarter of the 20th century.

It should not be a surprise to discover that Ludwig von Mises had a huge impact on Congressman Paul's view of statesmanship. This essay is a moving tribute to Mises and a look into the mind of a remarkable politician.

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The First World War

Lecture 9 in Ralph Raico's seminar, "History: The Struggle For Liberty".

Classical Liberalism and the Welfare-Warfare State

Lecture 10 in Ralph Raico's seminar, "History: The Struggle For Liberty".

The Anti-Capitalists

Lecture 7 in Ralph Raico's seminar, "History: The Struggle For Liberty".

The Planned Society

Lecture 8 in Ralph Raico's seminar, "History: The Struggle For Liberty".

John Stuart Mill

Lecture 3 in Ralph Raico's seminar, "History: The Struggle For Liberty".

Classical Liberalism

Lecture 2 in Ralph Raico's seminar, "History: The Struggle For Liberty".

06. Keynes and the 'New Economics' of Fascism (video)

Video version of Joseph Salerno talking about Keynes and the 'New Economics' of Fascism at the Austrian School of Economics: Revisionist History and Contemporary Theory seminar on June 8th, 2005.

The Future of Libertarianism

The Future of Libertarianism Various Artists 20th Century American Economic History

A History of Ayn Rand

A History of Ayn Rand Various Artists The Libertarian Tradition

The Political Economy of the Chicago School: Libertarian or Jacobin?

Joseph Salerno talks about The Political Economy of the Chicago School: Libertarian of Jacobin? at the Austrian School of Economics: Revisionist History and Contemporary Theory seminar on June 9th, 2005.

Keynes and the 'New Economics' of Fascism

Joseph Salerno discusses Keynes and the 'New Economics' of Fascism at the Austrian School of Economics: Revisionist History and Contemporary Theory seminar on June 8th, 2005.  

The American Presidency: Critical Episodes in Its Growth, Part II

Thomas Woods discusses The American Presidency: Critical Episodes in its Growth, Part II at The Truth About American History: An Austro-Jeffersonian Perspective seminar on June 24th, 2005.

The American Presidency: Critical Episodes in Its Growth, Part I

Thomas Woods discusses The American Presidency: Critical Episodes in its Growth, Part I at The Truth About American History: An Austro-Jeffersonian Perspective seminar on June 24th, 2005.

The States' Rights Tradition Nobody Knows

Thomas Woods talks about The States' Rights Tradition Nobody Knows at The Truth About American History: An Austro-Jeffersonian Perspective seminar on June 21st, 2005.

State, War, and Imperialism

Hans-Hermann Hoppe presents lecture two in his Economy, Society & History series; "State, War, and Imperialism" in 2004.

From Monarchy to Democracy

Hans-Hermann Hoppe presents lecture two in his Economy, Society & History series; "From Monarchy to Democracy" in 2004.