Mises Audio Books Podcast

Sep 23 2022 117 ep. 4.9k

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The Mises Institute exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian school of economics, and individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. These great thinkers developed praxeology, a deductive science of human action based on premises known with certainty to be true, and this is what we teach and advocate. Our scholarly work is founded in Misesian praxeology, and in self-conscious opposition to the mathematical modeling and hypothesis-testing that has created so much confusion in neoclassical economics.

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Economy, Society, and History

TAGS SocialismStrategy Political Theory Private Property Hans-Hermann HoppeNarrator: Paul StrikwerdaIn June 2004, Professor Hoppe visited the Mises Institute in Auburn to deliver an ambitious series of lectures titled Economy, Society, and History.This project brings together the core of Hoppe’s lifetime of theoretical work in one vital and coh

Cronyism: Liberty versus Power in Early America, 1607–1849

TAGS Cronyism and Corporatism U.S. History Patrick Newman History is a clash between the forces of liberty and the proponents of power. In Cronyism, Patrick Newman offers a compelling and important narrative on the early days of the American republic, and the rise of a Federal regime that conquers a nation conceived in liberty. Narrated by Scott

Democracy: The God That Failed Part 2

TAGS World History Other Schools of Thought Philosophy and Methodology Political Theory Hans-Hermann Hoppe This book is a systematic treatment of the historic transformation of the West from limited monarchy to unlimited democracy. Revisionist in nature, it reaches the conclusion that monarchy, with all its failings, is a lesser evil than mass d

Democracy: The God That Failed Part 1

TAGS World HistoryOther Schools of ThoughtPhilosophy and MethodologyPolitical Theory Hans-Hermann Hoppe This book is a systematic treatment of the historic transformation of the West from limited monarchy to unlimited democracy. Revisionist in nature, it reaches the conclusion that monarchy, with all its failings, is a lesser evil than mass democracy, but outl

Defending the Undefendable 2

TAGS Free Markets Monopoly and Competition Subjectivism Walter BlockThe true test of our commitment to personal liberty doesn't come when we permit others to engage in those peaceable, voluntary acts with which we agree. It comes when we permit others to engage in peaceable, voluntary acts we find offensive. Walter Block's Defending the Undefendable

Conceived in Liberty, Volume 5: The New Republic: 1784–1791

TAGS U.S. History History of the Austrian School of Economics Political Theory Murray N. Rothbard The fifth volume of Conceived in Liberty highlights the most important battle of the American project — one that continues to this day — the conflict between those who want to centralize power, and those who choose to stand to d

A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism

TAGS Calculation and Knowledge Interventionism Political Theory Hans-Hermann Hoppe's first treatise in English — actually his first book in English — and the one that put him on the map as a social thinker and economist to watch. He argued that there are only two possible archetypes in economic affairs: socialism and capitalism. All systems are combin

The Private Production of Defense

TAGS War and Foreign Policy Political Theory Hans-Hermann Hoppe takes on the most difficult subject in economic and political theory: the provision of security. He argues that the service is better provided by free markets than government, while addressing a hundred counter-arguments. Here we have an important updating of an argument rarely made even in the lib

The Myth of National Defense Part 2

TAGS War and Foreign Policy Interventionism Monopoly and Competition Political Theory Hans-Hermann Hoppe Need the state to provide national defense? Think again, and get ready for a wild intellectual ride. With eleven chapters by top libertarian scholars on all aspects of defense, this book edited by Hans-Hermann Hoppe represents an ambitious a

The Myth of National Defense Part 1

TAGS War and Foreign Policy Interventionism Monopoly and Competition Political Theory Hans-Hermann Hoppe Need the state to provide national defense? Think again, and get ready for a wild intellectual ride. With eleven chapters by top libertarian scholars on all aspects of defense, this book edited by Hans-Hermann Hoppe represents an ambitious a