Free Markets

Recorded at Mises University 2018.

It was in Europe—and above all, America — that human beings first achieved per capita economic growth over a long period of time.

Civilization is an achievement of the 'bourgeois' spirit, not of the spirit of war and conquest.

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The Myths of Market Failure

The Opioid Crisis

The Economics of the Stateless Society

Environmental and Resource Economics

Government Funding and Science

Markets and Private Governance

Free Trade vs. Protectionism

The Fable of the Leeches: Or Why Economists Are Wrong to Assume Markets Require Contract Enforcement

The European Miracle

Market Data: Power, War, and Man