Big Government

Recorded at FreedomFest, 10 July 2010. Includes an introduction by Douglas E. French.

"Because there is no link between the 'revenue' acquired by government agencies and the costs they incur, there is no way of utilizing the yardstick of profitability to evaluate whether agencies are performing a useful function."

It is because the liberal elite believe that, without a massive government, the economy would collapse to zero.

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.

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

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. 

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.