Mises U Required Readings

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Mises University Required Reading

The Meaning of Competition

Free MarketsInterventionismMonopoly and Competition

05/17/2019Mises Media
Competition is a process of the formation of opinion: by spreading information, it creates that unity and coherence of the economic system which we presuppose when we think of it as one market.
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Mises University Required Reading

The Broken Window

Free MarketsInterventionism

05/17/2019Mises Media
The broken-window fallacy, under a hundred disguises, is the most persistent in the history of economics.
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Mises University Required Reading

The Lesson

Free MarketsInterventionism

05/17/2019Mises Media
The whole of economics can be reduced to a single lesson, and that lesson can be reduced to a single sentence.
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Mises University Required Reading

The Individual in Society

Free MarketsMedia and CultureAustrian Economics OverviewInterventionism

05/16/2019Mises Media
Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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Mises University Required Reading

The Elite Under Capitalism

Free MarketsAustrian Economics OverviewInterventionism

05/16/2019Mises Media
In a free society there is no other means to avoid the evils resulting from one's fellows' bad judgment than to induce them to alter their ways of life voluntarily. Where there is freedom, this is the task incumbent upon the elite.
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What Has Government Done to Our Money? by Murray N. Rothbard

What Has Government Done to Our Money?

Money and BanksGold StandardMoney and Banking

12/08/2015Mises Media
In this audio book, Rothbard shows precisely how banks create money out of thin air and how the central bank, backed by government power, allows them to get away with it.
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The Anatomy of the State by Murray N. Rothbard

Anatomy of the State Audiobook

Political Theory

06/20/2012Mises Media
This short audiobook gives a succinct account of Murray Rothbard's view of the state.
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Audio Essay

I, Pencil

Free Markets

04/01/2009Mises Media
The audio version of Leonard Read's classic essay. Narrated by Floy Lilley.
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The Austrian Theory of the Trade Cycle and Other Essays by Richard Ebeling

Can We Still Avoid Inflation?

Austrian Economics OverviewInterventionismMonetary Theory

07/18/2008Mises Media
This audio essay, narrated by Gennady Stolyarov II, is found in The Austrian Theory of the Trade Cycle and Other Essays (pp. 93-110) edited by Richard M. Ebeling.
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The Austrian Theory of the Trade Cycle and Other Essays by Richard Ebeling

Economic Depressions: Their Cause and Cure

Austrian Economics OverviewBusiness CyclesInterventionism

07/17/2008Mises Media
Murray Rothbard was the master of reducing complicated theories to their very essence while retaining theoretical rigor, and this essay on Austrian business cycle theory is a case in point. Its continued relevance speaks to an aspect of the Austrian theory that other theories can't boast. It is a...
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