This audio essay, narrated by Gennady Stolyarov II, is the Introduction to The Austrian Theory of the Trade Cycle and Other Essays (pp. 7-24) edited by Richard M. Ebeling.
Mises U Required Readings
Selected narrated versions of the readings that students must complete before attending Mises University. For the complete list of required Mises U reading materials see "Mises University Schedule, Dorm, Airport & Required Reading".
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...
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.
The audio version of Leonard Read's classic essay. Narrated by Floy Lilley.
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.
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.
Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
The whole of economics can be reduced to a single lesson, and that lesson can be reduced to a single sentence.
The broken-window fallacy, under a hundred disguises, is the most persistent in the history of economics.
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.