Audio Essays

Narrated version of important essays.

A Libertarian Critique of Intellectual Property

Tags Legal SystemPrivate Property

06/11/2014Mises MediaButler Shaffer

Butler Shaffer's contribution to libertarian legal theory and an indispensable guide to a vital topic.

Repudiating the National Debt

Tags Big GovernmentTaxes and SpendingU.S. Economy

07/19/2012Mises MediaMurray N. Rothbard

Narrated by Harold Fritsche. Music by Kevin MacLeod.

The Health Plan's Devilish Principles

Tags Big GovernmentHealthInterventionism

07/17/2012Mises MediaMurray N. Rothbard

Narrated by Harold Fritsche. Music by Kevin MacLeod.

Seeing the Unseen

Tags Free Markets

07/03/2012Mises MediaLlewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

Narrated by Harold Fritsche. Music by Kevin MacLeod.

The Truth About Taxes

Tags Taxes and Spending

07/02/2012Mises MediaMurray N. Rothbard

This essay originally appeared in the Review of Austrian Economics 7, No. 2 (1994), pp. 75–90, as "The Consumption Tax: A Critique". Narrated by Harold Fritsche . Music by Kevin MacLeod .

The Death of Politics

Tags Political Theory

03/07/2012Mises MediaKarl Hess

Originally published in Playboy in March 1969, this essay is narrated by Jeff Riggenbach. Music by Kevin MacLeod.

Dispelling Popular Great Depression Myths

Tags Booms and BustsMedia and CultureU.S. HistoryAustrian Economics Overview

11/18/2009Mises MediaGennady Stolyarov II

Stolyarov reviews Robert P. Murphy’s The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great Depression and the New Deal (2009).

The Candlemakers' Petition

Tags Free MarketsMedia and CultureInterventionism

11/10/2009Mises MediaClaude Frédéric Bastiat

"The Candlemakers' Petition" is a well known satire of protectionism written and published in 1845, as part of Bastiat's Economic Sophisms . This audio essay is narrated by Gennady Stolyarov, II.