Mises U 2010

In the real world, it is impossible to separate economic analysis from an understanding of the effects of state intervention in the marketplace. Government spending, borrowing, regulating, and bureaucratizing all distort and change the economics of our daily lives. In this 60-minute talk, Thomas DiLorenzo discusses the effects of government intervention, and the role of democratic politics in leading to more intervention. How Austrian economics is used to analyze the effects of government spending, borrowing, and bureaucratizing. Recorded at Mises University 2010.

Recorded at Mises University 2010.

Includes remarks and presentations by Douglas French, Joseph Salerno, Jörg Guido Hülsmann, and Dario Fernandez. Recorded at Mises University 2010.

Recorded at Mises University 2010.

Contrast Austrian Welfare Economics with alternative approaches including Pareto Optimality and Kaldor-Hicks. Recorded at Mises University 2010.

Advanced lecture on the origins of fiat money systems, explaining the transition from commodity money to commercial bank notes and deposits, and from there to fiat money. Recorded at Mises University 2010.

Compares Austrian and mainstream views of prediction and their relative success. Recorded at Mises University 2010

An Austrian take on network externalities, QWERTY effects, the economics of information, intellectual property, and the history of technology. Recorded at Mises University 2010.

How a free market in law enforcement and military defense could work. Recorded at Mises University 2010.

Showing that Milton Friedman’s criticism of Austrian apriorism and his criticism of the Austrian rejection of unrealistic economic models are rooted in the same philosophical mistake. Recorded at Mises University 2010.

Defending “methodological dualism” [the view that natural science and social science require different methods] from both its positivist critics and its confused historicist friends. Recorded at Mises University 2010.

In defense of tax loopholes and other things that horrify “mainstream” economists. Recorded at Mises University 2010.

Is consumer product regulation necessary or does the free market have superior alternatives? Considers the government’s failure to provide the best level of protection for consumers. Recorded at Mises University 2010.

Some 40,000 people perish each year on U.S. highways, and the National Traffic Safety Administration blames this on speeding, DUI, driver error, while the real problem is Sovietization of streets and roads. Recorded at Mises University 2010.

Featuring Block, DiLorenzo, Klein, Thornton, Terrell, Woods, and Murphy. Recorded at Mises University 2010.

Featuring Garrison, Hülsmann, Long, Herbener, Gordon, and Salerno. Recorded at Mises University 2010.

Featuring Block, DiLorenzo, Klein, Thornton, Terrell, Woods, and Murphy. Recorded at Mises University 2010.

Featuring Garrison, Hülsmann, Long, Herbener, Gordon, and Salerno. Recorded at Mises University 2010.

Logical mistakes in common economic arguments; confusions about use of ethics in economics. Recorded at Mises University 2010.

Implications of economizing time and time preference in human action; the nature of uncertainty and the role of uncertainty and risk in human action. Recorded at Mises University 2010.

Explains the contributions of Mises and Rothbard to the development of modern economic thought. Focuses especially on their great treatises, Mises’s Human Action' and Rothbard’s Man, Economy, and State. Recorded at Mises University 2010.

Shows how Austrian economics is basis of Skyscraper Index, which has correctly predicted most economic and housing crises of 20th century. Recorded at Mises University 2010.

An open discussion of school and career options for Austrians in academia, journalism, policy analysis, and related fields. Recorded at Mises University 2010.

What is the corporate form of organization, where did it come from, how does it work, and do corporations take advantage of consumers, investors, and other market participants? Recorded at Mises University 2010.

Contrasts Chicago school’s focus on “macroeconomic variations of substantial size and frequency” with Austrian school’s focus on “market forces hidden from the untrained eye” to demonstrate superiority of Austrian theory. Recorded at Mises University 2010.

Employs graphical analysis to demonstrate many ways in which US minimum-wage legislation caters to special interests and exploits voters’ lack of economic understanding. Recorded at Mises University 2010.

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

Free trade and the international division of labor are the prerequisites for civilized society, which is why the state has always waged war against it. Recorded at Mises University 2010.

Discusses difficulties presented by government intervention into medical care in two parts: the problems of regulation of pharmaceuticals, and broader implications of socialist calculation problem for centralized control of medical care. Recorded at Mises University 2010.

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

Recorded at Mises University 2010. Includes an introduction by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. 

Recorded at Mises University 2010.

Advanced lecture on the theory of pure interest, discussing its pros and cons as compared to other theories, and its relationship with capital theory. Recorded at Mises University 2010.

Advanced lecture on monetary mechanisms in a growing economy, stressing the central role of debt, and discussing alternative ways to deal with inflation. Recorded at Mises University 2010.

Looks at causes of the 1929 crash and ensuing depression, with lessons for today. Recorded at Mises University 2010.

Responds to criticism of Austrian business cycle theory and “Puritan” policy recommendations. Recorded at Mises University 2010.

Why value-subjectivism in economics doesn’t imply value-subjectivism in ethics, and might even imply the reverse. Recorded at Mises University 2010.

Graphical demonstration that relaxing three critical-but-implausible assumptions underlying Keynes’s theorizing allows the Keynesian framework to morph into the Austrian framework. Recorded at Mises University 2010.

Why government is inherently wealth-destroying, compared to free-market entrepreneurship, the source of wealth creaton. Recorded at Mises University 2010.

Covers the problems of government intervention into pollution and natural resource use issues, emphasizing importance of private property and individual liberty in producing desirable outcomes. Recorded at Mises University 2010.

Links between liberty, morality, and economic growth and moral objections to capitalism as greed. Recorded at Mises University 2010.

Critical examination of the claim that justification for taxation is that there is a market failure regarding public goods and externalities. Recorded at Mises University 2010.

Austrian critique of mainstream analysis of monopoly, monopsony, and perfect competition; the logical contradictions of anti-trust law. Recorded at Mises University 2010.

Recorded at Mises University 2010. Includes an introduction by Mark Thornton. 

Recorded at Mises University 2010. Includes an introduction by Mark Thornton.

Recorded at Mises University 2010. Includes an introduction by Mark Thornton.

Recorded at Mises University 2010. Includes an introduction by Mark Thornton.

Recorded at Mises University 2010.

Recorded at Mises University 2010. Includes an introduction by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. 

Recorded at Mises University 2010. Includes an introduction by Mark Thornton.