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Connecting Austrian Economics & Liberty

Tom Woods discusses the power of Austrian Economics. Woods is a senior fellow at the Mises Institute. This video is...

Mises U 2015

Common Objections to Capitalism

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 21 July 2015.

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Review of Exploring Capitalist Fiction: Business through Literature and Film by Edward W. Younkins

The importance of economic messages in media has not been lost on Austrian economists. Mises, for example, had much to...

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Review of Finance Behind the Veil of Money: An Essay on the Economics of Capital, Interest, and the Financial Market by Eduard Braun

The reader should trudge his way through this book for two reasons. First is the explanation for why the purchasing...

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Review of Doing Bad by Doing Good: Why Humanitarian Action Fails by Chris Coyne

Doing Bad by Doing Good is an accessible treatment of a major foreign-policy problem from a perspective solidly...

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Division of Labor and Society: The Social Rationalism of Mises and Destutt de Tracy

Ludwig von Mises’s social rationalist views on society, first discussed in Salerno (1990), do not appear to have...

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The Efficient Market Conjecture

The aftermath of the recent recession has brought renewed skepticism to EMH, even leading some to redefine it as the...