The intellectual landscape today is far more favorable to markets and Austrian economics than 30, 50, or 100 years ago. Our job is to take the digital means at our disposal and make economics the stuff of everyday life, something relevant to ordinary people. So let’s drop the scrappy underdog posture, the quietism, the retreatism, and the remnant mentality, and fully restore proper economics to its rightful place in academia, business, and civilization itself.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hrd-blnJkCw
Recorded at the Mises Circle in Boston on the campus of Harvard University, on 1 October 2016.
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump both propose economic "plans," but neither understands the gravity of our situation. Minimum wage increases, higher taxes on the rich, or new import tariffs won't solve deep structural problems with the American economy: spending, debt, entitlements, and unchecked monetary expansion. Yet while the candidates posture, millions of Americans are now stuck in a new normal of decreasing wealth and decreasing opportunities.
What can be done to radically change the course of the US economy? What will it take to make DC stop spending and the Fed stop manipulating? Can the house of cards be rebuilt on a new foundation? And can Austrian economics provide real answers to our fiscal and monetary problems? Join us in Boston for the most engaging and provocative perspectives on the untold story of this election: The real state of the US economy.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoY48HN06Pk
Entrepreneurship today is a movement, a welling-up of new economic creativity, combined with a great desire for economic freedom and the joys of self-reliance and discovery. The movement is newly empowered by enabling institutions that simply weren’t around a few years ago, including the internet and its digital economic platforms. Professor Raushan Gross is a great observer and great documenter of this entrepreneurial surge, and he joins the Economics For Business podcast to share some of his original and distinctive observations about the very human aspects of his new entrepreneurial studies.
Show notes: https://mises.org/library/raushan-gross-newly-emerging-and-newly-enabling-institutions-entrepreneurship
Join Economics for Business today and receive a free copy of The Emerging Institutions of Entrepreneurship eBook by Raushan Gross: Mises.org/E4B_Join
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7U7pFgX6Bnk
The concept of risk provides us with an excellent opportunity to bridge between formal economic theory and personal business experience. Economics provides us with rigorous understanding of risk and uncertainty and the distinctions between them and their various types. But risk — the word that we use in everyday conversation — bring with it subjective feelings that affect how we approach it.
Show notes: https://mises.org/library/angie-morgan-witkowski-how-win-risk
Bet On You. How To Win With Risk: https://Mises.org/E4B_203_Book
Bet On You Podcast: https://Mises.org/E4B_203_Podcast
Angie Morgan Witkowski on LinkedIn: https://Mises.org/E4B_203_LinkedIn
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1R3VqW4PLw0
Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 17 July 2019.
Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian school of economics. Mises.org/MU19
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oli8L5zbBpQ
Featuring Walter Block, Ryan McMaken, and Jeff Deist. Recorded at "Contra Krugman: Demolishing the Economic Myths of the 2016 Election": the Mises Circle at Seattle's historic Town Hall, on 21 May 2016. Special thanks to the Harvey Allison family for making this event possible.
Presidential candidates promise everything from living wages to free health care and college. Proposals about how to run whole segments of the economy are made with a straight face. The most tired and hackneyed ideas about income equality, corporate greed, creating jobs, and paying one's fair share of taxes are trotted out. And millions of voters apparently believe it all, falling for the same promises of free stuff and prosperity from Washington.
How do political candidates get away with this nonsense, year after year and election after election? More importantly, what can we do as individuals to fight the entrenched economic illiteracy that keeps politicians in business?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC4nqZwjt8o
As we enter the dog days of summer, I have heard several media conversations and a few private ones that express exasperation over languishing capital markets. Why do things take so long to unravel? What will happen next? When will X, Y, or Z happen? Why are tech stocks so bullish now? The market takes time to process the information that it already has — or is in "process" — and everyday brings new data.
The Austrian perspective highlights the role of reality in the market process. This is especially important in this period of unprecedented government intervention and the chaos it has generated in markets.
Be sure to follow Minor Issues at https://Mises.org/MinorIssues.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWCKiV3XDP0
Allen Mendenhall (Mises.org/Mendenhall) joins Jeff Deist to break down the hyper-politicized spectacle of the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings. How did the Supreme Court become so wildly powerful, even while rubber-stamping the excesses of the executive and legislative branches? How much longer can America survive having deeply contentious issues like abortion and gun control decided by a de facto super-legislature? Why is the Constitution a malleable "living document" but Supreme Court precedents are sacrosanct? And how will we ever overcome deep-seated public misconceptions about the role and powers of the Court?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0yxWRL9x7E