Murray N. Rothbard

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• Scarcity and Choice1:08:20
• Supply and Demand1:20:11
• Advertising1:05:28
• Price Controls2:13:15

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• An Investor's Introduction to Austrian Economics36:33

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• Who has been generally credited with "founding" Austrian economics?0:24
• This view has changed to include Menger. How do you think this affects Austrian history?0:46
• What was one of Mises's favorite quotations?0:19
• What was Menger's basic contribution?0:51
• What is your view of the English classic school of economics?1:25
• How do "mathematical economists" view the Austrian rejection of math?0:41
• What do you think of Alfred Marshall (author of 'Principles of Economics')?1:55
• How do you sum up Menger's contribution to Austrian Economics?0:25
• What was Böhm-Bawerk's contribution?0:46
• What was Böhm-Bawerk's main criticism of Menger?1:29
• Why has Böhm-Bawerk been attacked by "nihilist" forces within Austrianism?0:38
• What is your favorite quotation on Marx?0:49
• What is the function of the entrepreneur in economic equilibrium?0:23
• What is Mises's theory of the business cycle?1:06
• How do recessions end?0:39
• What supply of money is optimal?0:39

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• The Gold Standard Before the Civil War1:03:27

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• 1. J.B. Say: The French Tradition in Smithian Clothing1:02:00
• 1. J.B. Say: The French Tradition in Smithian Clothing (continued)55:28
• 2. Jeremy Bentham: The Utilitarian as Big Brother46:24
• 2. Jeremy Bentham: The Utilitarian as Big Brother (continued)26:17
• 3. James Mill, Ricardo, and the Ricardian System40:40
• 3. James Mill, Ricardo, and the Ricardian System (continued)1:11:57
• 4. The Decline of the Ricardian System, 1820-4839:48
• 4. The Decline of the Ricardian System, 1820-48 (continued)58:33
• 5. Monetary and Banking Thought, I: The Early Bullionist Controversy40:32
• 5. Monetary and Banking Thought, I: The Early Bullionist Controversy (continued)36:45
• 6. Monetary and Banking Thought, II: The Bullion Report and the Return to Gold1:09:25
• 6. Monetary and Banking Thought, II: The Bullion Report and the Return to Gold (continued)44:42
• 7. Monetary and Banking Thought, III: The Struggle Over the Currency School59:18
• 7. Monetary and Banking Thought, III: The Struggle Over the Currency School (continued)56:27
• 8. John Stuart Mill and the Reimposition of Ricardian Economics1:08:21
• 9. Roots of Marxism: Messianic Communism51:22
• 10. Marx's Vision of Communism25:33
• 10. Marx's Vision of Communism (continued)1:06:52
• 11. Alienation, Unity, and the Dialectic1:09:34
• 12. The Marxian System, I: Historical Materialism and the Class Struggle56:29
• 12. The Marxian System, I: Historical Materialism and the Class Struggle (continued)1:07:50
• 13. The Marxian System, II: The Economics of Capitalism and its Inevitable Demise53:24
• 13. The Marxian System, II: The Economics of Capitalism and its Inevitable Demise (continued)43:37
• 14. After Mill: Bastiat and the French laissez-faire Tradition58:06
• 14. After Mill: Bastiat and the French laissez-faire Tradition (continued)38:21

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• Preface11:20
• 1. Europe at the Dawn of the Modern Era2:02:17
• 2. New World, New Land13:06
• 3. The Virginia Company43:54
• 4. From Company to Royal Colony6:06
• 5. The Social Structure of Virginia: Planters and Farmers9:14
• 6. The Social Structure of Virginia: Bondservants and Slaves28:19
• 7. Religion in Virginia8:31
• 8. The Royal Government of Virginia18:30
• 9. British Mercantilism over Virginia26:28
• 10. Relations with the Indians28:22
• 11. Bacon's Rebellion39:18
• 12. Maryland24:32
• 13. The Carolinas15:58
• 14. The Aftermath of Bacon's Rebellion in the Other Southern Colonies15:50
• 15. The Glorious Revolution and its Aftermath47:59
• 16. Virginia After Bacon's Rebellion33:45
• 17. The Religious Factor7:50
• 18. The Founding of Plymouth Colony16:42
• 19. The Founding of Massachusetts Bay30:32
• 20. The Puritans "Purify": Theocracy in Massachusetts27:53
• 21. Suppressing Heresy: The Flight of Roger Williams26:14
• 22. Suppressing Heresy: The Flight of Anne Hutchinson22:49
• 23. The Further Settlement of Rhode Island: The Odyssey of Samuell Gorton44:05
• 24. Rhode Island in the 1650s: Roger Williams' Shift from Liberty30:36
• 25. The Planting of Connecticut20:16
• 26. The Seizure of New England8:26
• 27. Joint Action in New England: The Pequot War8:20
• 28. The New England Confederation21:15
• 29. Suppressing Heresy: Massachesetts Persecutes the Quakers47:51
• 30. Economics Begins to Dissolve the Theocracy: Disintegration of the Fur Monopoly8:16
• 31. Economics Begins to Dissolve the Theocracy: The Failure of Wage and Price Controls18:23
• 32. Mercantilism, Merchants, and "Class Conflict"6:46
• 33. Economics Begins to Dissolve the Theocracy: The Failure of Subsidized Production12:08
• 34. The Rise of the Fisheries and the Merchants11:33
• 35. Theocracy Begins to Wither: The Half-Way Covenant3:34
• 36. The Decline and Rigors of Plymouth10:29
• 37. The Restoration Crisis in New England45:00
• 38. The Formation of New Netherland17:02
• 39. Governors and Government46:35
• 40. The Dutch and New Sweden21:40
• 41. New Netherland Persecutes the Quakers9:56
• 42. The Fall and Breakup of New Netherland27:15
• 43. The Northern Colonies, 1666-167526:58
• 44. The Beginning of Andros' Rule in New York10:06
• 45. Further Decline in the Massachusetts Theocracy8:45
• 46. King Philip's War40:13
• 47. The Crown Begins the Takeover of New England18:57
• 48. The Crown Takes over New Hampshire, 1680-168519:34
• 49. Edward Randolph Versus Massachusetts, 1680-168421:23
• 50. The Re-Opening of the Narragansett Claims, 1679-16834:43
• 51. The Rule of Joseph Dudley and the Council of New England16:15
• 52. New York, 1676-168633:56
• 53. Turmoil in East New Jersey, 1678-168623:36
• 54. The Development of West New Jersey15:01
• 55. "The Holy Experiment": The Founding of Pennsylvania, 1681-169035:34
• 56. The Dominion of New England37:44
• 57. The Glorious Revolution in the Northern Colonies, 1689-169051:50
• 58. The Glorious Revolution in the Northern Colonies, 1690-169251:42
• 59. Aftermath of the 1690s: The Salem Witch-Hunt and Stoughton's Rise to Power45:00
• 60. The Liberalism of Lord Bellomont in the Royal Colonies21:44
• 61. The Aftermath of Bellomont22:52
• 62. Rhode Island and Connecticut After the Glorious Revolution18:07
• 63. The Unification of the Jerseys38:03
• 64. Government Returns to Pennsylvania42:59
• 65. The Colonies in the First Decade of the Eighteenth Century16:43

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• Introduction: The Colonies in the Eighteenth Century7:06
• 1. Liberalism in Massachusetts26:57
• 2. Presbyterian Connecticut2:06
• 3. Libertarianism in Rhode Island4:45
• 4. Land Tenure and Land Allocation in New England11:35
• 5. New Hampshire Breaks Free4:45
• 6. The Narragansett Planters4:09
• 7. New York Land Monopoly29:09
• 8. Slavery in New York8:36
• 9. Land Conflicts in New Jersey21:05
• 10. The Ulster Scots11:41
• 11. The Pennsylvania Germans4:09
• 12. Pennsylvania: Quakers and Indians17:48
• 13. The Emergence of Benjamin Franklin32:59
• 14. The Paxton Boys8:19
• 15. The Virginia Land System11:14
• 16. The Virginia Political Structure7:08
• 17. Virginia Tobacco7:36
• 18. Slavery in Virginia9:17
• 19. Indian War in North Carolina4:08
• 20. The North Carolina Proprietary9:46
• 21. Royal Government in North Carolina7:05
• 22. Slavery in South Carolina14:54
• 23. Proprietary Rule in South Carolina9:34
• 24. The Land Question in South Carolina7:38
• 25. Georgia: The "Humanitarian" Colony50:18
• 26. Inflation and Paper Money1:12:18
• 27. The Communication of Ideas: Postal Service and the Freedom of the Press53:08
• 28. Religious Trends in the Colonies8:26
• 29. The Great Awakening39:28
• 30. The Growth of Deism12:39
• 31. The Quakers and the Abolition of Slavery23:22
• 32. The Beginning of the Struggle over American Bishops14:34
• 33. The Growth of Libertarian Thought53:14
• 34. Assembly Versus Governor12:31
• 35. Mercantilist Restrictions36:07
• 36. King George's War38:23
• 37. Early Phases of the French and Indian War43:46
• 38. The Persecution of the Acadians23:39
• 39. Total War16:15
• 40. The American Colonies and the War17:47
• 41. Concluding Peace33:44
• 42. Administering the Conquests9:55

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• 1. The Stage Is Set15:26
• 2. The Ohio Lands: Pontiac's Rebellion17:23
• 3. The Ohio Lands: The Proclamation Line of 17638:01
• 4. The British Army and the Grand Design24:03
• 5. Writs of Assistance in Massachusetts8:50
• 6. The White Pine Act2:02
• 7. Molasses and the American Revenue Act24:12
• 8. Reaction in Massachusetts8:03
• 9. Reaction in Rhode Island and Connecticut12:43
• 10. Reaction in New York5:31
• 11. Reaction in Pennsylvania6:30
• 12. Reaction in New Jersey2:14
• 13. Reaction in the South3:41
• 14. Enforcement Troubles4:12
• 15. The Newport Case12:39
• 16. The Threat of the Anglican Bishops7:41
• 17. The Parson's Cause20:32
• 18. Wilkes and Liberty, 1763-176420:05
• 19. Passage of the Stamp Act24:41
• 20. Initial Reaction to the Stamp Act8:39
• 21. Patrick Henry Intervenes10:30
• 22. Sam Adams Rallies Boston30:15
• 23. Rhode Island Responds12:34
• 24. Response in New York5:45
• 25. Response in Virginia3:24
• 26. Response in Connecticut3:10
• 27. Response in Pennsylvania4:52
• 28. Response in the Carolinas and Georgia6:51
• 29. Official Protests3:57
• 30. The Stamp Act Congress9:06
• 31. Ignoring the Stamp Act28:26
• 32. Government Replaced by the Sons of Liberty16:50
• 33. Repeal of the Stamp Act41:34
• 34. Aftermath of Repeal8:55
• 35. The Mutiny Act8:14
• 36. The New York Land Revolt13:14
• 37. Passage of the Townshend Acts4:09
• 38. The Nonimportation Movement Begins12:59
• 39. Conflict in Boston15:37
• 40. Wilkes and Liberty: The Massacre of St. George's Fields12:25
• 41. British Troops Occupy Boston8:26
• 42. Nonimportation in the South11:11
• 43. Rhode Island Joins Nonimportation6:45
• 44. Boycotting Importers19:51
• 45. The Boston Massacre24:10
• 46. Conflict in New York7:01
• 47. Wilkes and America19:44
• 48. Partial Repeal of the Townshend Duties9:30
• 49. New York Breaks Nonimportation30:25
• 50. The South Carolina Regulation19:53
• 51. The North Carolina Regulation46:20
• 52. The Uneasy Lull, 1770-17729:29
• 53. The Gaspée Incident8:59
• 54. The Committees of Correspondence15:37
• 55. Tea Launches the Final Crisis17:31
• 56. The Boston Tea Party10:34
• 57. The Other Colonies Resist Tea7:57
• 58. The Coercive Acts12:41
• 59. The Quebec Act7:30
• 60. Boston Calls for the Solemn League and Covenant20:05
• 61. Selecting Delegates to the First Continental Congress26:54
• 62. Resistance in Massachusetts7:31
• 63. The First Continental Congress16:08
• 64. The Continental Association35:17
• 65. The Impact on Britain12:28
• 66. The Tory Press in America6:59
• 67. Massachusetts: Nearing the Final Conflict15:26
• 68. Support from Virginia6:53
• 69. 'The Shot Heard Round the World': The Final Conflict Begins13:26
• 70. The Expansion of Libertarian Thought22:48
• 71. The Vermont Revolution: The Green Mountain Boys33:27
• 72. The Revolutionary Movement: Ideology and Motivation26:42

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• 1. Spreading the News in Lexington and Concord20:37
• 2. The Response in Britain4:50
• 3. Guerrilla or Conventional War6:12
• 4. The Seizure of Fort Ticonderoga10:52
• 5. The Response of the Continental Congress13:11
• 6. Charles Lee: Champion of Liberty and Guerrilla War17:42
• 7. The Battle of Bunker Hill7:29
• 8. Washington Transforms the Army8:36
• 9. The Invasion of Canada23:16
• 10. Paper Money Financing9:06
• 11. The New Postal System4:25
• 12. New York Fumbles in the Crisis13:07
• 13. The Suppression of the Tories Begins18:00
• 14. Suppressing Tories in Rhode Island5:39
• 15. Suppressing Tories in New York11:46
• 16. Suppressing Tories in the Middle Colonies3:47
• 17. Virginia Battles Lord Dunmore16:11
• 18. Battling Tories in the South10:55
• 19. The British Assault on Charleston7:15
• 20. Forcing the British Out of Boston6:08
• 21. Privateering and the War at Sea9:47
• 22. Commodities, Manufacturing, and Foreign25:34
• 23. Getting Aid from France17:54
• 24. Polarization in England and the German26:25
• 25. America Polarizes16:50
• 26. Forming New Governments: New9:10
• 27. New England Ready for Independence17:41
• 28. The Sudden Emergence of Tom Paine17:41
• 29. Massachusetts Turns Conservative32:06
• 30. The Drive Toward Independence37:21
• 31. The Struggle in Pennsylvania and Delaware29:11
• 32. New Jersey and Maryland Follow13:46
• 33. Independence Declared20:12
• 34. New York Succumbs to Independence32:06
• 35. The Invasion of New York36:08
• 36. The Campaigns in New Jersey17:30
• 37. Planning in the Winter of 17777:58
• 38. Rebellion at Livingston Manor6:53
• 39. The Burgoyne Disaster36:34
• 40. Howe's Expedition in Pennsylvania12:16
• 41. Winter at Valley Forge14:46
• 42. The Battle of Monmouth and the Ouster of Lee13:23
• 43. Response in Britain and France27:31
• 44. The Drive for Confederation32:28
• 45. The Articles of Confederation13:23
• 46. Radicalism Triumphs in Pennsylvania18:52
• 47. Struggles Over Other State Governments31:17
• 48. The Rise and Decline of Conservatism in New York11:44
• 49. The End of the War in the North18:23
• 50. War at Sea5:58
• 51. The War in the West49:57
• 52. The Southern Strategy12:25
• 53. The Invasion of Georgia18:42
• 54. The Capture of Charleston9:37
• 55. The Emergence of Guerrilla Warfare in South Carolina11:57
• 56. Gates Meets the Enemy9:16
• 57. The Battle of King's Mountain and the End of the 1780 Campaign10:54
• 58. Greene's Unorthodox Strategy11:41
• 59. The Race to the Dan7:01
• 60. The Battle of Guilford Courthouse9:03
• 61. The Liberation of South Carolina11:55
• 62. The Final Battle23:27
• 63. After Yorktown in the West8:36
• 64. The Response in Britain10:26
• 65. Making Peace37:19
• 66. Land Claims and the Ratification of the Articles of Confederation10:13
• 67. Inflationary Finance and Price Controls36:50
• 68. Conservative Counter-Revolution: Massachusetts and Pennsylvania13:07
• 69. Robert Morris and the Conservative Counter-Revolution in National Politics, 1780-178219:12
• 70. Robert Morris and the Public Debt17:17
• 71. The Drive for a Federal Tariff11:27
• 72. The Newburgh Conspiracy13:55
• 73. The Fall of Morris and the Emergence of the Order of the Cincinnati13:00
• 74. The Western Lands and the Ordinance of 17847:39
• 75. The Republic of Vermont12:40
• 76. Oppressing the Tories17:56
• 77. Tory Lands in New York15:45
• 78. Elimination of Feudalism and the Beginnings of the Abolition of Slavery16:03
• 79. Disestablishment and Religious Freedom5:06
• 80. Was the American Revolution Radical?21:08
• 81. The Impact in Europe24:37

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• Foreword6:47

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• Economic Depressions: Their Cause and Cure42:59

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• What is the calculation problem under socialism?0:35
• What is the incentive problem under socialism?0:49
• How does intervention cause problems?0:40

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• Introduction26:36
• Acknowledgements3:44
• 1. The First Philosopher-Economists: the Greeks32:45
• 1. The First Philosopher-Economists: the Greeks (continued)1:07:13
• 2. The Christian Middle Ages1:04:35
• 2. The Christian Middle Ages (continued)1:10:37
• 3. From Middle Ages to Renaissance57:14
• 3. From Middle Ages to Renaissance (continued)55:12
• 4. The Late Spanish Scholastics1:14:05
• 4. The Late Spanish Scholastics (continued)1:04:30
• 5. Protestants and Catholics52:00
• 5. Protestants and Catholics (continued)55:24
• 6. Absolutist Thought in Italy and France1:02:37
• 6. Absolutist Thought in Italy and France (continued)1:00:31
• 7. Mercantilism: Serving the Absolute State1:11:22
• 8. French Mercantilist Thought in the 17th Century1:05:44
• 9. The Liberal Reaction Against Mercantilism in Seventeenth Century France33:42
• 9. The Liberal Reaction Against Mercantilism in Seventeenth Century France (continuted)40:52
• 10. Mercantilism and Freedom in England from the Tudors to the Civil War59:35
• 10. Mercantilism and Freedom in England from the Tudors to the Civil War (continued)48:54
• 11. Mercantilism and Freedom in England from the Civil War to 175056:40
• 11. Mercantilism and Freedom in England from the Civil War to 1750 (continued)1:01:01
• 12. The Founding Father of Modern Economics: Richard Cantillon1:07:23
• 13. Physiocracy in Mid-Eighteenth Century1:07:01
• 14. The Brilliance of Turgot1:03:14
• 15. The Scottish Enlightenment52:13
• 16. The Celebrated Adam Smith53:22
• 16. The Celebrated Adam Smith (continued)47:03
• 17. The Spread of the Smithian Movement58:09

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• Mises in One Lesson1:00:22
• Demand and Supply, Consumer Goods, Prices and Exchange53:10
• Money and Prices55:38
• Banking and the Business Cycle1:38:38
• Capital, Interest, and Profit54:40
• Labor51:00
• Labor and Unions51:53
• Conservation and Property Rights54:49
• The Future of Austrian Economics48:06

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• 1. The Libertarian Heritage: The American Revolution and Classical Liberalism59:22
• 2. The Libertarian Creed: Property and Exchange1:10:29
• 3. The State1:14:53
• 4. Libertarian Applications to Current Problems: The Problems17:02
• 5. Involuntary Servitude43:02
• 6. Personal Liberty1:13:03
• 7. Education1:06:59
• 8. Welfare and the Welfare State1:24:23
• 9. Inflation and the Business Cycle: The Collapse of the Keynesian Paradigm1:13:05
• 10. The Public Sector, I: Government in Business18:46
• 11. The Public Sector, II: Streets and Roads37:12
• 12. The Public Sector, III: Police, Law, and the Courts1:20:34
• 13. Conservation, Ecology, and Growth59:00
• 14. War and Foreign Policy1:34:46
• 15. A Strategy for Liberty1:15:37

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• Ludwig von Mises as a Laissez-faire Radical: The Quest for the Historical Mises4:07
• Contributions of James Mill: Leader of the Philisophical Radical Movement54:17
• Chicago Economics v. Austrian Economics42:50
• The Current State of World Affairs1:22:08
• Man, Economy and Liberty28:46
• On Milton Friedman1:13:22
• Regulation49:36
• Libertarianism1:20:02
• The Meaning of Ludwig von Mises55:47
• The Polish Disease1:33:35

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• Introduction to Economics: Part 146:07
• Introduction to Economics: Part 245:59
• Introduction to Economics: Part 346:34
• Introduction to Economics: Part 445:55
• Introduction to Economics: Part 546:28
• Introduction to Economics: Part 645:50
• Introduction to Economics: Part 725:20

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• Intro to Micro: Demand and Supply1:01:52
• Value35:00
• The Determination of Prices1:10:58
• Price Controls in the Oil Industry1:07:58
• Minimum Price Controls43:24
• Government Licensing of Industry and Minimum Wage1:01:57
• Mid-Term Review and The Theory of the Firm1:16:49
• The Firm52:31
• Monopoly and Competition56:17
• Government Cartels58:23
• The Structure of Production59:12
• Labor and Unions1:27:39
• The Labor Market33:58
• Interest Rates and Course Review1:01:42

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• Keynes the Man: Hero or Villain?40:24

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• Left, Right, and the Prospects for Liberty1:15:24

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• An anecdote about Mises0:33
• Why was the intial response to Mises's work so poor in America?0:38
• What is the essence of Austrian Economics?0:40
• What is the essence of praxeology?0:37
• What is the subjective theory of value?0:55
• What is the role of the capitalist entrepreneur in Austrian Economics?0:36

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• Preface to Revised Edition24:11
• 1.01. Fundamentals of Human Action: The Concept of Action2:52
• 1.02. First Implications of the Concept14:34
• 1.03. Further Implications: The Means15:02
• 1.04. Further Implications: Time10:06
• 1.05. Further Implications: Ends and Values & The Law of Marginal Utility38:44
• 1.06. Factors of Production: The Law of Returns13:46
• 1.07. Factors of Production: Convertibility and Valuation12:10
• 1.08. Factors of Production: Labor versus Leisure11:37
• 1.09. The Formation of Capital1:01:30
• 1.10. Action as an Exchange3:13
• Appendix A: Praxeology and Economics10:07
• Appendix B: On Means and Ends1:40
• 2.01. Direct Exchange · Types of Interpersonal Action: Violence14:03
• 2.01. Direct Exchange · Types of Interpersonal Action: Violence14:03
• 2.02. Types of Interpersonal Action: Voluntary Exchange and the Contractual Society23:48
• 2.03. Exchange and the Division of Labor19:53
• 2.04. Terms of Exchange10:53
• 2.05. Determination of Price: Equilibrium Price47:24
• 2.06. Elasticity of Demand5:50
• 2.07. Speculation and Supply and Demand Schedules12:07
• 2.08. Stock and the Total Demand to Hold10:08
• 2.09. Continuing Markets and Changes in Price15:38
• 2.10. Specialization and Production of Stock19:30
• 2.11. Types of Exchangeable Goods20:14
• 2.12. Property: The Appropriation of Raw Land16:05
• 2.13. Enforcement Against Invasion of Property24:19
• 3.01. The Pattern of Indirect Exchange: The Limitations of Direct Exchange4:39
• 3.02. The Emergence of Indirect Exchange8:25
• 3.03. Some Implications of the Emergence of Money6:24
• 3.04. The Monetary Unit6:20
• 3.05. Money Income and Money Expenditures20:41
• 3.06. Producers’ Expenditures15:08
• 3.07. Maximizing Income and Allocating Resources51:57
• 4.01. Prices and Consumption: Money Prices14:07
• 4.02. Determination of Money Prices19:29
• 4.03. Determination of Supply and Demand Schedules16:01
• 4.04. The Gains of Exchange11:56
• 4.05. The Marginal Utility of Money50:44
• 4.06. Interrelations among the Prices of Consumers’ Goods19:47
• 4.07. The Prices of Durable Goods and Their Services25:48
• 4.08. Welfare Comparisons and the Ultimate Satisfactions of the Consumer11:09
• 4.09. Some Fallacies Relating to Utility24:27
• Appendix A: The Diminishing Marginal Utility of Money11:24
• Appendix B: On Value3:13
• 5.01. Some Fundamental Principles of Action4:34
• 5.02. The Evenly Rotating Economy22:36
• 5.03. The Structure of Production: A World of Specific Factors8:44
• 5.04. Joint Ownership of the Product by the Owners of the Factors15:16
• 5.05. Cost13:26
• 5.06. Ownership of the Product by Capitalists: Amalgamated Stages9:47
• 5.07. Present and Future Goods: The Pure Rate of Interest13:08
• 5.08. Money Costs, Prices, and Alfred Marshall23:27
• 5.09. Pricing and the Theory of Bargaining10:43
• 6.01. Many Stages: The Pure Rate of Interest18:25
• 6.02. The Determination of the Pure Rate of Interest: The Time Market11:39
• 6.03. Time Preference and Individual Value Scales20:01
• 6.04. The Time Market and the Production Structure40:48
• 6.05. Time Preference, Capitalists, and Individual Money Stock9:13
• 6.06. The Post-Income Demanders7:05
• 6.07. The Myth of the Importance of the Producers’ Loan Market11:03
• 6.08. The Joint-Stock Company24:13
• 6.09. Joint-Stock Companies and the Producers’ Loan Market20:43
• 6.10. Forces Affecting Time Preferences2:57
• 6.11. The Time Structure of Interest Rates11:56
• Appendix: Schumpeter and the Zero Rate of Interest3:33
• 7.01 Imputation of the Discounted Marginal Value Product32:03
• 7.02. Determination of the Discounted Marginal Value Product25:02
• 7.03. The Source of Factor Incomes2:43
• 7.04. Land and Capital Goods22:58
• 7.05. Capitalization and Rent22:28
• 7.06. The Depletion of Natural Resources10:33
• Appendix: Professor Rolph and the Discounted Marginal Productivity Theory8:42
• 8.01. Entrepreneurial Profit and Loss21:16
• 8.02. The Effect of Net Investment21:53
• 8.03. Capital Values and Aggregate Profits in a Changing Economy24:23
• 8.04. Capital Accumulation and the Length of the Structure of Production19:18
• 8.05. The Adoption of a New Technique; The Entrepreneur and Innovation9:01
• 8.06. The Beneficiaries of Saving-Investment3:34
• 8.07. The Progressing Economy and the Pure Rate of Interest3:27
• 8.08. The Entrepreneurial Component in the Market Interest Rate14:16
• 8.09. Risk, Uncertainty, and Insurance8:46
• 9.01. Introduction1:20
• 9.02. Land, Labor, and Rent1:17:09
• 9.03. Entrepreneurship and Income1:12:19
• 9.04. The Economics of Location and Spatial Relations15:13
• 9.05. A Note on the Fallacy of “Distribution”4:18
• 9.06. A Summary of the Market9:01
• 10.01. Monopoly and Competition; The Concept of Consumers’ Sovereignty20:31
• 10.02. Cartels and Their Consequences1:04:06
• 10.03. The Illusion of Monopoly Price1:51:28
• 10.04. Labor Unions33:40
• 10.05. The Theory of Monopolistic or Imperfect Competition32:51
• 10.06. Multiform Prices and Monopoly17:14
• 10.07. Patents and Copyrights21:39
• 11.01. Money and Its Purchasing Power: Introduction1:34
• 11.02. The Money Relation: The Demand for and the Supply of Money12:21
• 11.03. Changes in the Money Relation1:18
• 11.04. Utility of the Stock of Money6:42
• 11.05. The Demand for Money1:13:25
• 11.06. The Supply of Money32:25
• 11.07. Gains and Losses During a Change in the Money Relation10:14
• 11.08. The Determination of Prices: The Goods Side and the Money Side7:43
• 11.09. Interlocal Exchange11:08
• 11.10. Balances of Payments8:55
• 11.11. Monetary Attributes of Goods3:35
• 11.12. Exchange Rates of Coexisting Moneys7:33
• 11.13. The Fallacy of the Equation of Exchange31:15
• 11.14. The Fallacy of Measuring and Stabilizing the PPM11:08
• 11.15. Business Fluctuations7:44
• 11.16. Schumpeter’s Theory of Business Cycles11:21
• 11.17. Further Fallacies of the Keynesian System22:28
• 11.18. The Fallacy of the Acceleration Principle16:15
• 12.01. The Economics of Violent Intervention in the Market: Introduction4:53
• 12.02. A Typology of Intervention5:30
• 12.03. Direct Effects of Intervention on Utility16:26
• 12.04. Utility "Ex Post": Free Market and Government17:16
• 12.05. Triangular Intervention: Price Control20:32
• 12.06. Triangular Intervention: Product Control19:54
• 12.07. Binary Intervention: The Government Budget17:31
• 12.08. Binary Intervention: Taxation1:04:48
• 12.09. Binary Intervention: Government Expenditures1:00:36
• 12.10. Growth, Affluence, and Government1:05:12
• 12.11. Binary Intervention: Inflation and Business Cycles1:34:51
• 12.12. Conclusion: The Free Market and Coercion4:18
• Appendix A: Government Borrowing8:01
• Appendix B: “Collective Goods” and “External Benefits”: Two Arguments for Government Activity35:01
• 1. Defense Services on the Free Market26:38
• 2. Fundamentals of Intervention43:21
• 3. Triangular Intervention3:06:27
• 4. Binary Intervention: Taxation4:49:27
• 5. Binary Intervention: Government Expenditures1:53:52
• 6. Antimarket Ethics: A Praxeological Critique2:50:11
• 7. Conclusion: Economics and Public Policy32:30

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• The Fed and the Power Eilte1:06:00

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• Anatomy of the State

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• The Founding of The Federal Reserve1:04:59

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• The Civil War and Its Legacy1:55:16
• The Railroading of the American People1:32:39
• The Decline of Laissez-Faire2:04:09
• The Rise and Fall of Monopolies2:03:36
• Pietism and the Power Brokers2:13:18
• Tariffs, Inflation, Anti-Trust and Cartels1:47:31
• Theodore Roosevelt: Master Reformer1:02:34
• Regulation and Public Utilities2:00:57
• The Progressive Era?1:27:47
• Cartelization of Banking: The Fed1:27:48
• Woodrow Wilson and World War I1:27:45
• The Great Cooperation1:29:11
• Politics and the Power Elite52:28

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• Economic Depressions: Their Cause and Cure43:47

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• Can you address the recession of 1958?2:32
• What are the origins of the predominant theory of the business cycle?4:19
• What is the Keynesian view of the role of government vis-a-vis the free market?0:58
• How do the theories of Mises and Hayek differ?0:36
• Why did the theories of Mises and Hayek originally attract attention?1:10
• Why didn't the Austrian view of the business cycle prevail?0:46
• Why did the "establishment" accept Keynesianism so readily?1:04
• How did Keynes answer his critics?0:28
• What about the Chicago school (Milton Friedman)?0:31
• Since the FDIC there have been fewer bank failures. Isn't this a good thing?0:31
• What purpose do anti-trust laws serve?0:31
• How would a free market prevent monopoly?0:34
• What is the basic business cycle theory developed by the Currency School?3:41
• Why is the industrial market economy so often blamed for the busts in business cycles?1:48
• What role did government paper money play in early booms and busts?0:29
• What theories opposed the currency schools' view of the business cycle?1:04
• What is the Keynesian approach to business cycles?1:14
• What the the Austrian view of recessions?0:14
• What is the Keynesian solution to depressions?0:50
• How can government promote recovery from recession?0:36
• Why doesn't a collapse or recession occur quickly when the money supply is expanded?0:47
• What caused the depression of 1929?2:54
• What is the proper role of the Federal Reserve?0:06
• Do you predict inflation or deflation?0:18

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• Introduction: Money and Politics19:49
• The Genesis of Money13:15
• What is the Optimum Quantity of Money?5:22
• Monetary Inflation and Counterfeiting14:12
• Legalized Counterfeiting4:57
• Loan Banking7:25
• Deposit Banking14:06
• Problems for the Fractional-Reserve Banker: The Criminal Law9:52
• Problems for the Fractional-Reserve Banker: Insolvency17:51
• Booms and Busts1:39
• Types of Warehouse Receipts4:55
• Enter the Central Bank10:07
• Easing the Limits on Bank Credit Expansion4:04
• The Central Bank Buys Assets9:44
• Origins of the Federal Reserve: The Advent of the National Banking System21:04
• Origins of the Federal Reserve: Wall Street Discontent6:44
• Putting Cartelization Across: The Progressive Line15:20
• Putting a Central Bank Across: Manipulating a Movement, 1897-190233:21
• The Central Bank Movement Revives, 1906-191017:30
• Culmination at Jekyll Island8:34
• The Fed at Last: Morgan-Controlled Inflation22:33
• The New Deal and the Displacement of the Morgans8:24
• Deposit "Insurance"7:22
• How the Fed Rules and Inflates15:51
• What Can Be Done?12:33

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• Two Just Wars: 1776 and 186150:09

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• Duplicate: [136] "Praxeology as the Method of the Social Sciences"

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• Preface8:12
• 1. Natural Law and Reason12:15
• 2. Natural Law as 'Science'17:01
• 3. Natural Law versus Positive Law7:29
• 4. Natural Law and Natural Rights10:39
• 5. The Task of Political Philosophy4:06
• 6. A Crusoe Social Philosophy20:11
• 7. Interpersonal Relations: Voluntary Exchange30:13
• 8. Interpersonal Relations: Ownership and Aggression19:54
• 9. Property and Criminality35:16
• 10. The Problem of Land Theft14:38
• 11. Land Monopoly, Past and Present19:29
• 12. Self-Defense23:03
• 13. Punishment and Proportionality33:32
• 14. Children and Rights42:56
• 15. "Human Rights" as Property Rights22:49
• 16. Knowledge, True and False23:25
• 17. Bribery5:38
• 18. The Boycott5:36
• 19. Property Rights and the Theory of Contracts48:38
• 20. Lifeboat Situations16:34
• 21. The "Rights" of Animals6:13
• 22. The Nature of the State41:23
• 23. The Inner Contradictions of the State24:07
• 24. The Moral Status of Relations to the State16:49
• 25. On Relations Between States29:40
• 26. Utilitarian Free-Market Economics42:47
• 27. Isaiah Berlin on Negative Freedom9:08
• 28. F.A. Hayek and The Concept of Coercion30:26
• 29. Robert Nozick and the Immaculate Conception of the State1:08:45
• 30. Toward a Theory of Strategy for Liberty57:14

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• What is the Key to Marx?2:22
• What is Marx's Theory of Value and its main flaw?1:59
• What was the pietist movement in America that arose in the 1820s?3:30
• What or who was the beginning of modern economics?2:20
• When was the first government paper money?0:29
• Who were the Physiocrats?2:57
• What was Turgot's contribution to economics?1:14
• Why do people think that Adam Smith 'founded' modern economics?2:40
• Who was the first major figure in the Scottish Enlightenment tradition?0:36
• How do you differ from Hayek's interpretation of Mandeville?0:32
• What are Adam Smith's deviations from laissez-faire?2:55
• What was Adam Smith's labor theory of value?0:39
• How does time preference relate to 'usury?'1:27
• What is the value paradox?1:17
• How did the Marginal Revolution solve the diamond/water paradox?1:31

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• Ideology and Theories of History1:06:35
• The Emergence of Communism1:11:48
• The Pre-Austrians1:11:56
• Menger and Böhm-Bawerk1:11:38
• Mises and Austrian Economics56:39
• Hayek and His Lamentable Contemporaries1:07:47

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• The Political Thought of Étienne de La Boétie1:07:15
• The Political Thought of Étienne de La Boétie1:07:15

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• How did the Federal Reserve Act come about?4:22
• How did World War I affect the world's reliance on the gold standard?2:59
• Why are so many free market advocates suspicious of banks?0:59
• Why is investment banking particularly resented?1:38
• How does US foreign policy relate to US banking?1:11
• Why did America get into World War I?3:47
• What is fractional reserve banking?1:15
• Why do cartels fall apart?1:52
• What are the roots of monopoly in America?3:38
• Explain the current alliance between government and intellectuals2:14

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• Preface15:52

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• I. Introduction3:35
• II. Money in a Free Society1:18:10
• III. Government Meddling With Money1:06:03
• IV. The Monetary Breakdown of the West44:13
• The Case for a 100% Gold Dollar, Part 152:52
• The Case for a 100% Gold Dollar, Part 253:34