Reading, Teaching, and Quoting Mises | Mark Thornton
“Those first 300 pages are rather difficult. And they’re difficult for a variety of different reasons for both professional economists as well as just regular people. Regular people wonder, what are all these insane criticisms that Mises is spending so much time addressing? And the professional economist wants to know, why doesn’t he get on to regular economics? I’m going to talk about that a little differently here today.”
Presented at the 2024 Human Action Conference on Saturday, 18 May 2024, at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.
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Government policy encourages single parent household formation while discouraging full-time employment and driving up housing costs.
Original article: https://mises.org/wire/three-barriers-improving-poverty-rates-america
This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon. Narrated by Michael Stack.
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Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 20 July 2021. Download the slides from this lecture at https://Mises.org/MU21_PPT_12.
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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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With the election over, liberty-minded Americans must reassess how we move toward more liberty in our lifetime.
Recorded at the Mises Institute's "Strategies for Liberty" event in San Diego, California, on 25 February 2017.
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But don't despair, Jeff will soon be back with a brand new format: The Human Action Podcast. The new show is not radically different, but focuses more exclusively on Austrian economics, its great books, and its great thinkers — with longer, more in-depth interviews. But don't take our word for it, tune in next week to the first show with David Gordon!
Your RSS-fed platforms like Stitcher and SoundCloud will continue to support the new show, while Mises.org will still host both streaming and downloadable audio files. And your iTunes subscription will redirect you from Mises Weekends to The Human Action Podcast.
This week Jeff takes a hard look at socialism and why it seems to gain greater support in the US and across the West. Do people really understand socialism as Mises did, and do they really want collective ownership of industry? Or do they just want what he termed "pseudo-socialist" economic systems that redistribute wealth? What motivates socialists? And how do they reconcile their moralizing self-regard with the doctrine that socialism is inevitable and inexorable?
Mises's Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis (https://mises.org/library/socialism-economic-and-sociological-analysis).
Jeff Deist on why support for socialism persists (https://mises.org/power-market/still-fighting-last-war-against-socialism).
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These introductory remarks were presented at the Mises Institute on 23 March 2018.
The Austrian Economics Research Conference is the international, interdisciplinary meeting of the Austrian School, bringing together leading scholars doing research in this vibrant and influential intellectual tradition. The conference is hosted by the Mises Institute at its campus in Auburn, Alabama, and is directed by Joseph Salerno, professor of economics at Pace University and academic vice president of the Mises Institute.
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Originally recorded at the University of Houston on January 24, 1972.
Ron Paul alludes to this speech in his book 'End the Fed' (pp. 51-52):
"Mises, at the time, was elderly but sharp. His subject was socialism, and his lecture explained why socialism always fails due to the absence of a free market pricing structure for capital goods... The lecture was held in a modest-sized classroom, but the place was overflowing. Popularizing Austrian economics at the time was in its very early stages, but it was obvious even then that there was a starvation for truth in economics."
Note: because of the age and quality of the tape, there are potions of this recording that are suboptimal.
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"This is a core topic for Austrian economists, because we have a particular way of thinking about competition and the absence of competition in the form of monopoly that is a little bit different from the way some other economists approach the problem. And this is a perennially important sort of public policy topic."
Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 30, 2024.
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