Ludwig von Mises
Audio recordings of Mises Wire articles, offering contemporary news and opinion through the lens of Austrian economics and libertarian political economy.
Hosted by Hunter Hastings, this weekly podcast focuses on helping the real life, flesh-and-blood entrepreneur to succeed.
Podcasts, interviews, lectures, narrated articles and essays, and more. This is the Mises Institute's master online media catalog.
A compendium of individual interviews and topical series covering a broad range of topics important to Austrians.
Radio Rothbard is a weekly podcast hosted by Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop. The show tackles politics, current events, culture, media, and the predatory state—all from an uncompromising Rothbardian perspective. Radio Rothbard is the weekly anti politics podcast you don't want to miss!
Human Action is Mises's great treatise on political economy. It is the most comprehensive, systematic, forthright, and powerful defense of the economics of liberty ever written. This audiobook is narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.
Murray N. Rothbard writes "A society without a state is not only viable; it is the only one consistent with natural rights." This audiobook edition includes an introduction by Hans-Hermann Hoppe, and is narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.
This is Murray Rothbard's libertarian manifesto, view of society without the nation-state. This audio book edition is narrated by Jeff Riggenbach, includes a new introduction, written and read by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
A Seminar with Walter Block
Presented on 29 September 2004 at the Library of the Metropolitan Club, New York, New York. Sponsored by Mr. Kenneth M. Garschina.Download the complete audio of this event (ZIP) here.
The most powerful case against the American central bank every written. This audiobook edition is narrated by Floy Lilley.
Murray N. Rothbard's most famous essay on monetary theory. Buffoonish and evil politicians, the banking cartel, the cabal that established the Federal Reserve, Lincoln's greenbacks, FDR's stealing of the gold, the Fed and the Great Depression, and so much more. Narrated by Jeff...
The Law applies in every way to our own time, which is precisely why so many people credit this one essay for showing them the light of liberty. Narrated by Floy Lilley.
Mises Institute scholars present the highlights in the life and work of major contributors to the development of the Austrian school of Economics. The list of trailblazers includes familiar names like Menger, Mises, and Rothbard, as well as some less well-known but important people like Röpke and...
Hans-Hermann Hoppe presents a thorough reconstruction of the foundation of economics, social theory, and politics. Sweeping in scope and powerfully persuasive, these ten lectures are the basis of a grand treatise in the Misesian-Rothbardian tradition.
Economics 101
A collection of ten speeches and lectures by Murray N. Rothbard, spanning from the 1970s to the early 1990s. He is speaking in a small classroom setting, explaining economics from the ground up, and systematically in the manner of a classic 101 course on the topic—but with a revolutionary...
Man, Economy, and State, with Power and Market
Murray Rothbard died before he could write the third volume of his famous History of Economic Thought, which would cover the birth and development of the Austrian School, through the Keynesian Revolution and Chicago School. With this six-lecture course, however, the History of Economic Thought is...
Rothbard's posthumous masterpiece is the definitive book on the Progressives. This audiobook is made available through the generosity of Mr. Tyler Folger. Narrated by Graham Wright.
The History of Political Philosophy: From Plato...
In this ten-lecture course sponsored by Steve Berger and Kenneth Garschina, intellectual historian David Gordon guides students through a survey of the greatest thinkers, and evaluates these scholars by their arguments for and against the idea of Liberty.Download the complete audio of this event...
Ron Paul wrote this book to explain, in clear and precise terms, the basics of paper money and its effects of inflation, business cycles, and government growth. Narrated by Floy Lilley.
Recordings of the lectures and seminars presented at Mises University: 15–21 July 2018. Mises U 2018 recordings are also available on Soundcloud, iTunes, and YouTube.
Presented by Murray N. Rothbard in 1986 at New York Polytechnic University. Recorded by Hans-Hermann Hoppe. Download the complete audio of this event (ZIP) here.
In volume one, Murray Rothbard traces economic ideas from ancient sources to show that laissez-faire liberalism and economic thought itself began with the Spanish Scholastics and early Roman, Greek, and canon law. Unfortunately, Adam Smith’s labor cost theories became the dominant view,...
Mises moves beyond economics to address questions regarding the foundation of all social science. He discusses his methodological dualism: one approach for hard sciences and another for the social sciences. Rothbard writes "It is Mises's great methodological work, explaining the basis of his...
Foundations of Libertarian Ethics
Presented by Roderick T. Long, this ten-lecture seminar surveys the praxeological foundations of libertarian ethics. Hosted at the Mises Institute, 26-30 June 2006.Download the complete audio of this event (ZIP) here.
The second volume contains an enlightening critique of Ricardian economics, showing the constraints on theory entailed by Ricardo’s static and pseudo-mathematical method. Ricardo’s successor John Stuart Mill is the object of a devastating intellectual portrait. Marxism is subjected to a merciless...
Economics in One Lesson
Recorded during the 2008 Mises University, leading Austrian Economists discuss Henry Hazlitt's classic book Economics in One Lesson.
Murray Rothbard considered No Treason to be "the greatest case for anarchist political philosophy every written." Narrated by Matt Pritchard.
Only a few recordings survive of the great economist, and only those after his immigration to the United States.
Introduction to Economics: A Private Seminar wi...
This informal seminar with Murray N. Rothbard was recorded in Toronto, Ontario, on 4 September 1983. Special thanks to Don Morrison for making these recordings available. Download the complete audio of this event (ZIP) here.
The Economics of the Civil War
Mark Thornton, coauthor of Tariffs, Blockades and Inflation: The Economics of the Civil War, offers a series of seven lectures, presented to the Auburn University Academy for Lifelong Learners, hosted at the Mises Institute.Download the complete audio of this event (ZIP) here.
Murray Rothbard, in a complete revision of the standard account, traces inflations, banking panics, and money meltdowns from the Colonial Period through the mid-twentieth century to show how the American government's systematic war on sound money is the hidden force behind nearly all major...
The American Economy and the End of Laissez-Fai...
Presented by Murray N. Rothbard in Fall 1986 at New York Polytechnic University. Recorded by Hans-Hermann Hoppe. Download the complete audio of this event (ZIP) here.
Audio recordings of Mises Daily articles.
Here is Hans 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 combinations...
The Economics of Fascism
It is assumed that the economy must be managed by the either the right or the left: socialism or fascism is our choice. Both choices come at the expense of liberty. 7-8 October 2005, Auburn, Alabama. Download the complete audio of this event (ZIP) here.
Robert Higgs presents a series of ten formal lectures on topics of American history that examine the role of crisis, emergency management, and the military in the emergence of the Leviathan state and diminution of liberty. Recorded June 23-27, 2003. Bibliography (PDF): Mises.org/CLBib
The Truth About American History: An Austro-Jef...
Thomas E. Woods, Jr. presents this seminar covering the material in his books, and details and defends the Jeffersonian-Rothbardian perspective. Here is the cutting edge of libertarian history that completely rethinks the meaning and impact of the welfare-warfare state.
Individual Lectures
Lectures and presentations by Mises Institute faculty and staff, and lectures by guest scholars and experts.
How Keynes and Keynesianism were the culprits of the economic woes of the second half of the twentieth century. 28–29 April 1989, Harvard Square, MA.
A New Land, A New People: The American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century. Narrated by Floy Lilley.
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 attempt to extend the idea of free enterprise to the...
Documentaries
The Mises Institute has produced several documentary videos, among which is the highly-popular "Money, Banking, and the Federal Reserve".
The Failure of the Keynesian State
The New Deal began before John Maynard Keynes propagated his theories. But the state was pleased to have a scientific gloss for its looting, inflating, and controlling ways. The question then and the question now is: does this approach actually stimulate the economy. 23 January 2010, Houston,...