Keynes loved the pyramids. The attempt to rehabilitate the reputation of the pyramid project is part of a larger cultural effort to prop up the respectability of government in general and the nation-state in particular, writes Paul A. Cantor. This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Joel Sams.
Audio Mises Daily
Audio recordings of Mises Daily articles.
What they don’t understand: aggregation, relative prices, interest rates, capital structure, money pumping, and regime uncertainty, writes Robert Higgs. This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Colin Hussey.
A recorded mini lecture and video display purported to explain this mysterious phenomenon (mysterious to the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street, anyway). I knew that I was going to hear either a self-critical explanation or, more likely, some hogwash. Hogwash won, hands down, writes Patrick Barron...
I use the term “liberal” without irony or contempt, for the liberal tradition in the true sense was devoted to freeing people from the shackles of the state, writes Ron Paul. This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Steven Ng.
We cannot eat money. We cannot wear money. We cannot live in money. Money can’t buy you love, writes Shawn Ritenour. This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Keith Hocker.
The balanced budget passed away definitely in 1911, not to return again until a revolution had swept from the people of Italy their freedom, writes John T. Flynn (1882–1964). This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Nathaniel Foote.
Menger went on to accomplish a radical break with tradition: a thoroughly individualistic view of humanity and of the world, writes Eugen-Maria Schulak and Herbert Unterköfler. This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Paul Strikwerda.
If it is true that prices are signals which enable us to adapt our activities to unknown events and demands, it is evidently nonsense to believe that we can control prices, writes Friedrich A. Hayek (1899–1992). This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Nathaniel Foote.
Often the dispersion of a fortune starts already in the lifetime of the businessman when his buoyancy, energy, and resourcefulness become weakened, writes Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973). This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Keith Hocker.
I happened to sit down next to a man last week who has been my benefactor for my entire life and the large part of his, and yet we had never met. In fact, though he has been serving me faithfully for three decades, looking after my well-being and trying to improve my standard of living, he didn’t...
According to Mises, socialism would be bound to fail not because of morality but because of insuperable intellectual difficulties, writes Eugen-Maria Schulak and Herbert Unterköfler. This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Paul Strikwerda.
If we were to take the greatest economists from all ages and judge them on the basis of their theoretical rigor, their influence on economic education, and their impact in support of the free-market economy, then Frédéric Bastiat would be at the top of the list, writes Mark Thornton. This audio...
In the U.S., an almost unsurmountable gulf separates “society” from the intellectuals, writes Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973). This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Colin Hussey.
They think they are doing battle with capitalism and corporate greed; I say it is a pure and beautiful example of a market exchange, writes Stefano R. Mugnaini. This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Brad O’Connell.
If you want to know Thoreau, you had better pass up the diagnosticians and get down to reading Thoreau himself, writes Frank Chodorov (1887–1966). This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Steven Ng.
It is generally accepted that a government can enslave the citizens — unless it is a democratic government. Mistake! This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Colin Hussey.
It’s difficult to say “Bush School of Government and Public Service” aloud without gagging, writes Robert Higgs. This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Steven Ng.
Professor Block is a handsome fellow. But he is not likely to appear on the catwalk anytime soon, writes Ben O’Neill. This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Colin Hussey.
The illusion of wartime prosperity is rooted in how national income was calculated and in how the statistics were compiled, writes Art Carden. This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Keith Hocker.
From the 18th century to our own time, the liberal tradition has stood firmly against war, based both on principle and on the reality of how and why wars begin, and also the wicked damage they do to society. The excuses for wars mask the underlying reason for them, writes Ralph Raico. This audio...
