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Environmental Conservation

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2025/07/25

Timothy Terrell challenges the mainstream view that markets fail to protect the environment, arguing instead that government intervention often distorts land use, fuels cronyism, and undermines conservation. Drawing on Austrian insights, historical examples, and striking contrasts in land management outcomes, Terrell makes the case for property rights and market-based stewardship as the true path to sustainability.Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 25, 2025.Mises University

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Economics of Interventionism

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2025/07/25

Lucas Engelhardt explores the economics of interventionism, tracing Ludwig von Mises’s core argument that state interference in markets is both self-defeating and inherently unstable. Building on insights from Rothbard, Ikeda, and Higgs, Engelhardt examines why interventionism persists despite its failures, and whether we are, in fact, on the road to socialism or stuck in a stable middle ground.Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 25, 2025.Mises University is the world's

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Bureaucrats in the Deep State

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2025/07/24

Tate Fegley analyzes the deep state through the lens of Austrian economics, showing how bureaucratic insulation, lack of economic calculation, and political incentives lead to cronyism and inefficiency. Focusing on defense procurement and media influence, he argues that systemic dysfunction—not bad actors—is the primary driver of deep state behavior.Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 24, 2025.Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian

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What Henry Hazlitt Knew and What You Should Know...

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2025/07/24

Bob Murphy examines Henry Hazlitt’s treatment of inflation in Economics in One Lesson, highlighting key insights on monetary expansion, Cantillon effects, and the distinction between nominal and real variables. The lecture offers a clear, Austrian perspective on why inflation distorts rather than enriches, and why its consequences are uneven and often misunderstood.Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 24, 2025.Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in

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The Covid Fiasco: Reflections Five Years Later

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2025/07/24

Through a detailed, real-time narrative, Tom Woods examines the inconsistencies, unintended consequences, and bureaucratic incentives behind lockdowns, mask mandates, and public health messaging. Supplemented by empirical data and firsthand accounts, the lecture highlights the human and institutional costs of the crisis response, while underscoring the Mises Institute’s principled opposition to prevailing narratives.Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 24, 2025.Mises

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Game Theory

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2025/07/24

Lucas Engelhardt challenges conventional applications of game theory by integrating the Austrian perspective on entrepreneurship, showing how creative action can resolve apparent economic impasses like the prisoner's dilemma, the tragedy of the commons, and coordination failures.Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 24, 2025.Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics, and is the essential training ground for economists who

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Rothbardian Analysis of the Constitution

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2025/07/23

Patrick Newman offers a Rothbardian critique of the US Constitution, arguing that rather than establishing a framework for limited government and individual liberty, it was crafted to centralize political power and protect elite economic interests. Drawing from the Austrian tradition and historical analysis, the lecture challenges the prevailing narrative of the Constitution as a purely libertarian founding document.Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 23, 2025.Mises

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Growth versus Prosperity

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2025/07/23

Shawn Ritenour critiques mainstream growth models that emphasize abstract inputs like capital accumulation and technological innovation, arguing instead for a human-centered approach rooted in Austrian economics. He emphasizes the foundational roles of entrepreneurship, time preference, the division of labor, and sound monetary institutions in fostering sustainable economic development.Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 23, 2025.Mises University is the world's leading

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Race and Discrimination

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2025/07/23

Are markets a friend to minorities? Economist Walter Williams thought so, and Wanjiru Njoya explains why. Her lecture cuts through critical race theory dogma to show how liberty, not legislation, lifts up the marginalized.Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 23, 2025.Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics, and is the essential training ground for economists who are looking beyond the mainstream.

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Repugnant Markets

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2025/07/23

Sandra Klein takes on dwarf-tossing, horse meat, and human organ sales to show how moral squeamishness isn't a market failure, it's just a preference.Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 23, 2025.Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics, and is the essential training ground for economists who are looking beyond the mainstream.

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Minimum Wage

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2025/07/22

The minimum wage is harmful, racist, sexist, and completely unnecessary.Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 22, 2025.Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics, and is the essential training ground for economists who are looking beyond the mainstream.

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Competition and Monopoly

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2025/07/22

Competition is a relentless, dynamic process of entrepreneurship and discovery. Tom DiLorenzo exposes how antitrust laws, rooted in flawed theories of monopoly and “perfect competition,” have served as government tools to punish success, stifle innovation, and prop up politically favored monopoliesRecorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 22, 2025.Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics, and is the essential training ground

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The Austrian Theory of the Business Cycle

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2025/07/22

Paul Cwik unpacks Austrian Business Cycle Theory, explaining how artificial credit expansion triggers unsustainable booms and inevitable busts. He walks through models of savings, investment, and the structure of production to reveal how interest rate manipulation distorts the economy, and why liquidation and recovery are both necessary and painful.Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 22, 2025.Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School

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Austrian Capital Theory

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2025/07/22

Patrick Newman introduces Austrian capital theory: how savings, time, and production structures drive economic growth. Without capital goods and roundabout production, we’d still be living like primitive hunters, and without savings, growth halts altogether.Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 22, 2025.Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics, and is the essential training ground for economists who are looking beyond the

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Banking

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2025/07/21

David Howden reveals how banking, especially fractional reserves and central bank manipulations, creates instability and inflation. He also explains why a 100% reserve system could prevent crises, and why no one on Wall Street wants that to happen.Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 21, 2025.Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics, and is the essential training ground for economists who are looking beyond the

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Money

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2025/07/21

Dr. Sandy Klein walks through the origins and essential functions of money, showing how barter’s pitfalls led to the spontaneous emergence of money as a medium of exchange. She explains Menger's and Mises’s insights into money’s evolution, why gold and silver prevailed, and how inflation and counterfeiting distort economies.Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 21, 2025.Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics, and is the

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Subjective Value and Market Prices

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2025/07/21

Jeffrey Herbener explains how Austrian price theory reveals the logic of voluntary exchange and subjective value, and why market prices emerge not from production costs, but from personal preferences and economizing choices.Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 21, 2025.Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics, and is the essential training ground for economists who are looking beyond the mainstream.

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The Birth of the Austrian School

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2025/07/21

Professor Salerno traces the birth of the Austrian School to Carl Menger’s revolutionary insight: prices emerge from human wants, choices, and the subjective value of each unit consumed.Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 21, 2025.Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics, and is the essential training ground for economists who are looking beyond the mainstream.

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Why Jay Powell’s Fed Will Not Cut Interest Rates

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2025/07/19

In this episode, Mark Thornton breaks down the political pressure from Trump, market demands for cheap money, and the Federal Reserve’s real fears: a collapsing dollar, rising inflation, and soaring long-term rates. Mark traces the history of interest rate manipulation, the precarious state of US debt, and why Chairman Powell may be clinging to high rates—not for the public good, but to save face before his 2026 exit. With the dollar weakening and deficits exploding, Mark explains why the next

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America-First Foreign Policy Is Dead

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2025/07/18

After promising to end the Ukraine war immediately, and to stay out of Middle East wars, President Trump has instead doubled down on intervening in both conflicts.Be sure to follow Radio Rothbard at https://Mises.org/RadioRothbardRadio Rothbard mugs are available at the Mises Store. Get yours at https://Mises.org/RothMugPROMO CODE: RothPod for 20% off

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