This reader is intended to give a first-time Mises University student the groundwork for understanding the content delivered in the main lectures at Mises U. It introduces some of the “big names” in Austrian economics, like Menger, Mises, and Rothbard, with selections from their major works.
Professor Walter Block joins Jeff Deist for a fantastic in-depth discussion of Henry Hazlitt and his work.
Mises was not one to praise individual economists very often. But he still had his favorites.
The problem is that the capacity to imagine freedom is being eroded in our society and culture. The less freedom we have, the less people are able to imagine what freedom feels like, and therefore the less they are willing to fight for its restoration.
Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian school of economics.
Henry Hazlitt's The Failure of the "New Economics" published in 1959, is still the best refutation of Keynesian economics to be found anywhere — sixty years later.
Presented at Mises University 2019.
