Audio Essays

In this monograph, Butler Shaffer addresses an important question that has aroused much interest among libertarians: What is the status of intellectual property? Are patents and copyrights legitimate? This is a major contribution to libertarian legal theory and an indispensable guide to a vital topic.Narrated by Clay Barnett. Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com).

Narrated by Harold Fritsche. Music by Kevin MacLeod.

Narrated by Harold Fritsche. Music by Kevin MacLeod.

Narrated by Harold Fritsche. Music by Kevin MacLeod.

This essay originally appeared in the Review of Austrian Economics 7, No. 2 (1994), pp. 75–90, as "The Consumption Tax: A Critique". Narrated by Harold Fritsche. Music by Kevin MacLeod.

Originally published in Playboy in March 1969, this essay is narrated by Jeff Riggenbach. Music by Kevin MacLeod.

Stolyarov reviews Robert P. Murphy’s The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great Depression and the New Deal (2009).

"The Candlemakers' Petition" is a well known satire of protectionism written and published in 1845, as part of Bastiat's Economic Sophisms. This audio essay is narrated by Gennady Stolyarov, II.

Includes a summary by Frank van Dun. Preface by F.A. Hayek. Read by Josiah Schmidt.

From Chapter I of The Bastiat Collection: Volume I. Pages 1-48 in the text. Read by Josiah Schmidt.

Chapter 13 in The Ethics of Money Production. From Part 2, "Inflation," pages 175-191. Narrated by Floy Lilley.

Taken from Free Market Economics: A Basic Reader, compiled by Bettina Bien Greaves (pp. 227-231). Narrated by Floy Lilley.

From Chapter IX of The Bastiat Collection: Volume II: "Harmonies of Political Economy (Book Two)". Pages 481-505 in the text. Narrated by Brannon King.

The audio version of Leonard Read's classic essay. Narrated by Floy Lilley.

Austrian Economics offers an elegant, logical, and thoroughly causal explanation of how money came to be, again demonstrating the power of the free market to spontaneously organize human activity in meaningful and universally beneficial ways.

This audio essay is narrated by Gennady Stolyarov, II.

This address was originally delivered before the University Club of New York on April 18, 1950. This audio essay is narrated by Gennady Stolyarov, II.