Austrian Economics Overview

Recorded at Mises University 2010.

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"Economics is the science that studies these individual agents of the market and how they coordinate through the price mechanism to create, not just what the mainstream considers 'the market,' but society as a whole, all without the necessity of a central planner or authority."

Featuring Joseph Calandro, Kevin Duffy, Marc Faber, Robert Murphy, Thorsten Polleit, Lew Rockwell and Frederick Sheehan. Emceed by Jeff Scott.

Recorded at The Mises Circle in Manhattan, on May 22nd, 2010. PPT

The Mises Circle in Manhattan; 22 May 2010, New York, New York. Includes closing remarks by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.

Recorded at The Mises Circle in Manhattan, on May 22nd, 2010. PPT 

Recorded at The Mises Circle in Manhattan, on May 22nd, 2010.

Mises is one of the greatest men who ever lived for his insights into what he called "human action."

A free market is just people making voluntary exchanges. Woods makes an example out of the creation of a ham sandwich. Welfare and warfare undermine the natural economic harmony of large scale social cooperation - the free market.