Big Government

Contrast Austrian Welfare Economics with alternative approaches including Pareto Optimality and Kaldor-Hicks. Recorded at Mises Universi

Is consumer product regulation necessary or does the free market have superior alternatives?

Some 40,000 people perish each year on U.S.

Discusses difficulties presented by government intervention into medical care in two parts: the problems of regulation of pharmaceuticals, and broa

Recorded at Mises University 2010. Includes an introduction by Mises Institute founder and chairman, Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. 

Problems of international development aid and the domestic welfare state. Recorded at Mises University 2010.

The Depression is supposed to be Exhibit A of the alleged instability of the free market left to its own devices, while the New Deal represents the indispensable corrective power of the state.

The United States imposes import quotas that substantially raise domestic sugar prices, harming domestic consumers to benefit politically powerful domestic sugar producers.

Why government is inherently wealth-destroying, compared to free-market entrepreneurship, the source of wealth creaton.

Covers the problems of government intervention into pollution and natural resource use issues, emphasizing importance of private property and indiv