Mises in One Lesson
Austrian economics has nothing to do with the economics of Austria. Austrian Economics (AE) began with Carl Menger in 1871. It is based on an analysis of individual action, not aggregates or groups.
Philosophy and Methodology
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Colonial America and the American Revolution
Albion’s Seed is a great book about the four migration folkways into the colonies from Great Britain during 1629 through 1775. The groups had many characteristics in common which may be what made future union possible, but the groups were also different. Puritans hated Quakers. Everybody hated Catholics. The competing regional cultures created quite a laissez-faire outcome between the community-based groups and more individualistic groups.
Plumb Line Libertarianism
Walter Block talks about Plumb Line Libertarianism at the 2002 Austrian Scholars Conference.
Human Action and Man, Economy and State in the History of Thought
Recorded at Mises University 2003.
Unimagined Power: The Presidency in the History of Political Philosophy
Recorded at the Reassessing the Presidency seminar; March 2004.
The Sociology of Panics and Crashes in American History
Boom, Bust, and the Future (19:39) January 18-19, 2002
