The Theory of Money and Credit , Ludwig von Mises’s 1953 treatise on monetary theory , is now available as a free audiobook narrated by Jim Vann. In a step-by-step manner, Mises presents the case for sound money with no inflation, and presents the beginnings of a full-scale business cycle theory. The audio files are currently available on
To understand the modern state, you must understand the Progressive Era. Thanks to the generosity of Mr. Tyler Folger, Murray Rothbard’s definitive book on the Progressives is now available as a free audiobook. The audio files are currently available on iTunes , Google Play , Soundcloud , and Mises.org
Facebook continues to tinker with its News Feed options . It’s unclear if this will affect how often you see Mises Institute articles in your feed, but if you want to make sure we keep coming through, here’s how. • Go to News Feed’s “Edit Preferences” option on Facebook.com or in the app. • Choose “See First” for the pages you want to see in
In 2017, the US spent more than $50 billion on foreign aid. Why then are so many of the countries receiving this aid still living in dire poverty with starvation as a constant threat? Why doesn’t this aid foster economic growth and development in those regions? Because just throwing money at a problem, foreign aid in this case, simply doesn’t
The Mises Institute is happy to welcome Daniella Bassi to our staff! Ms. Bassi will act as assistant editor for mises.org, our journals, and our full slate of new books for 2020. Ms. Bassi joins us from the College of William and Mary in Virginia, where she edited publications for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture. She
The Macro Problem of Microtransactions: The Self-regulatory Challenges of Video Game Loot Boxes by Matthew McCaffrey has been published as a case study for Harvard Business Review. The video game industry has ignited a global controversy surrounding microtransactions in gaming, especially the use of loot boxes: randomized rewards with potential
This issue contains selected lectures, papers, and abstracts of papers presented at the 2019 Austrian Economics Research Conference in Auburn, Alabama. Articles include Daniel Ajamian’s “The Cost of the Enlightenment,” Michael Rectenwald’s “Libertarianism(s) versus Postmodernism and ‘Social Justice’ Ideology,” Edward Fuller’s “Keynes and the
Two new issues of the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics are now available online. Vol. 22, no. 4 features an article by Dr. Mark Thornton on an unpublished note from the early 1960s by Murray Rothbard on the economics of antebellum slavery . Other highlights include a response by Dr. Joseph Salerno to Dr. Karl-Friedrich Israel on the wealth
We received a new donation from Mr. Carl Watner entitled The Voluntaryist Collection. The highlight of the donation includes the six-volume set: The Collected Works of Lysander Spooner . Within the collection is a series of personal inscriptions that Mr. Watner collected at libertarian conferences over the years, including by Murray Rothbard,
Ludwig von Mises’s Human Action was published on this date in 1949. From the beginning, the Mises Institute’s mission has been to champion this book’s importance in the history of economic thought. In the words of Henry Hazlitt, in his New York Times Review : Human Action is, in short, at once the most uncompromising and the most rigorously
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