Recent Podcast Episodes
What is the Optimum Quantity of Money?
From The Case Against The Fed (pp. 18-20), as narrated by Floy Lilley.
Problems for the Fractional-Reserve Banker: The Criminal Law
From The Case Against The Fed (pp. 40-45), as narrated by Floy Lilley.
Easing the Limits on Bank Credit Expansion
From The Case Against The Fed (pp. 62-64), as narrated by Floy Lilley.
Putting a Central Bank Across: Manipulating a Movement, 1897-1902
From The Case Against The Fed (pp. 90-106), as narrated by Floy Lilley.
Introduction to The Case Against the Fed: Money and Politics
From The Case Against The Fed (pp. 3-12), as narrated by Floy Lilley.
Origins of the Federal Reserve: Wall Street Discontent
From The Case Against The Fed (pp. 79-82), as narrated by Floy Lilley.
The Fed at Last: Morgan-Controlled Inflation
From The Case Against The Fed (pp. 118-129), as narrated by Floy Lilley.
Fundamentals of Human Action
Human action is defined simply as purposeful behavior. Men act by virtue of their being human. Action can be undertaken only by individual actors. Leisure is a good. Mises derives economic law from this axiom that the study of man is the concept of action.
Direct Exchange
Exchange is the foundation of the division of labor. Each party to an exchange must expect greater psychic benefit than what he is giving up. Thus, trades are not equal, they are win-win activities. Property and ownership are value-free and a pre-condition of a free market.
Defending the Undefendable: An Interview with Walter Block
Walter Block is interviewed on the Mike Martin Show, 08-11-2008.
