Explore every episode of the podcast Mises U 2024

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 28, 2024.

Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics, and is the essential training ground for economists who are looking beyond the mainstream.

"The American academic history profession periodically publishes the rankings of the greatest presidents, and Lincoln and FDR are always there at the top. And Woodrow Wilson used to be at the top, or near the top, until they discovered about three or four years ago that he re-segregated the US military."

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 28, 2024. Includes an introduction by Joseph. T. Salerno.

Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics, and is the essential training ground for economists who are looking beyond the mainstream.

A modern socialist economy is impossible.

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 30, 2024.

Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics, and is the essential training ground for economists who are looking beyond the mainstream.

Capital is the sum of the whole complex of goods destined for acquisition, evaluated in money terms.

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 30, 2024.

Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics, and is the essential training ground for economists who are looking beyond the mainstream.

Austrian business cycle theory is the defining feature of Austrian economics.

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 30, 2024.

Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics, and is the essential training ground for economists who are looking beyond the mainstream.

"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.

Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics, and is the essential training ground for economists who are looking beyond the mainstream.

The minimum wage is harmful, racist, sexist, and completely unnecessary.

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 30, 2024.

Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics, and is the essential training ground for economists who are looking beyond the mainstream.

Austrian economists understand how we can apply economic laws and concepts to what we see in the real world.

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 30, 2024.

Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics, and is the essential training ground for economists who are looking beyond the mainstream.

Is ethics objectively true?

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 31, 2024.

Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics, and is the essential training ground for economists who are looking beyond the mainstream.

What has been the rhetoric and what has been the reality of trade policy? Where do we stand at this point in time? Why don't trade agreements work? Where should we concentrate our efforts in the future if we want to champion this fight?

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 31, 2024.

Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics, and is the essential training ground for economists who are looking beyond the mainstream.

Threats to capitalism, arguments raised against capitalism, and the importance of liberty.

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 31, 2024.

Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics, and is the essential training ground for economists who are looking beyond the mainstream.

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 31, 2024.

Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics, and is the essential training ground for economists who are looking beyond the mainstream.

"Menger developed the whole system of economics, and he showed that it was based on subjective value and individual choice based on the principle of marginal utility. He was a creative genius." 

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 29, 2024.

Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics, and is the essential training ground for economists who are looking beyond the mainstream.

Comparative institutional analysis of both policing provided by government bureaucracies and by private enterprises that can engage in economic calculation.

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 31, 2024.

Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics, and is the essential training ground for economists who are looking beyond the mainstream.

"The market process is cumulative. It builds off of what is. So, if you abolish the regulations, that's going to be better."

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 31, 2024.

Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics, and is the essential training ground for economists who are looking beyond the mainstream.

The task of the economic historian that views government regulation through the lens of cronyism is to uncover the actual motivations—not the stated motivations—behind legislation and reveal who really benefited.

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 31, 2024.

Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics, and is the essential training ground for economists who are looking beyond the mainstream.

The application of Austrian economics to the study of games, video games, and virtual worlds.

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on August 1, 2024.

Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics, and is the essential training ground for economists who are looking beyond the mainstream.

Every game has a structure that involves three elements: you have players, you have strategies, and you have the outcomes.

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on August 1, 2024.

Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics, and is the essential training ground for economists who are looking beyond the mainstream.

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on August 1, 2024.

Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics, and is the essential training ground for economists who are looking beyond the mainstream.

There is no general social benefit from government spending regardless of how it is financed.

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on August 1, 2024.

Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics, and is the essential training ground for economists who are looking beyond the mainstream.

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on August 1, 2024.

Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics, and is the essential training ground for economists who are looking beyond the mainstream.

The analysis of the operations of the military industrial congressional complex can be applied to other types of bureaucracies that have the ability to bestow favors and implement graft.

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on August 1, 2024.

Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics, and is the essential training ground for economists who are looking beyond the mainstream.

People are tempted to think we need government regulation and intervention in product safety.

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on August 1, 2024.

Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics, and is the essential training ground for economists who are looking beyond the mainstream.

"Price theory is the cornerstone of the foundation of economic calculation, and economic calculation is the foundation upon which rests our understanding of the market economy."

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 29, 2024.

Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics, and is the essential training ground for economists who are looking beyond the mainstream.

"Malinformation is information which may be true, but causes the receiver, the recipient of that malinformation, to become more distrustful of the government. I guarantee that you all have heard a bucket load of malinformation over the last couple of days."

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on August 1, 2024.

Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics, and is the essential training ground for economists who are looking beyond the mainstream.

"How do you run a business? How do you see things in the marketplace as an Austrian compared to others? Is there anything we can learn from Austrian economics?"

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on August 2, 2024.

Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics, and is the essential training ground for economists who are looking beyond the mainstream.

A brief overview of how we can look at economic and environmental issues with an Austrian perspective. 

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on August 2, 2024.

Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics, and is the essential training ground for economists who are looking beyond the mainstream.

"Even those who look upon the inequality of wealth and incomes as a deplorable thing, cannot deny that it makes for progressing capital accumulation. And it is additional capital accumulation alone that brings about technological improvement, rising wage rates, and a higher standard of living." —Ludwig von Mises, Human Action

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on August 2, 2024.

Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics, and is the essential training ground for economists who are looking beyond the mainstream.

"You go to college not so much because of the educational characteristics, and maybe not just because of the signaling, but maybe because it's just a lot of fun."

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on August 2, 2024.

Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics, and is the essential training ground for economists who are looking beyond the mainstream.

"Look up the Mises Institute and you'll find the answer."

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on August 2, 2024.

Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics, and is the essential training ground for economists who are looking beyond the mainstream.

"Rothbard always worked with great enthusiasm and joy despite the many obstacles he faced. The reason why his spirits never dampened is because he had optimism, which he said may be very long-range. He didn't merely believe the possibility of eventual victory. but implied that given a fairly safe set of assumptions, the triumph of liberty was practically inevitable."

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on August 2, 2024.

Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics, and is the essential training ground for economists who are looking beyond the mainstream.

"There are different ways that we can take what we've learned here at Mises U and apply it."

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on August 3, 2024.

Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics, and is the essential training ground for economists who are looking beyond the mainstream.

"Self-determination, imperialism, and secession are three ways of looking at the same object. Because, as we will see, the tradition of self-determination is closely connected to the issue of secession, and also its opposite then, imperialism and colonialism."

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on August 3, 2024.

Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics, and is the essential training ground for economists who are looking beyond the mainstream.

"Murray Rothbard used this term debamboozle, because the idea is that the state and all of its minions—the media, the universities—they're all in the business of bamboozling the public—confusing the public into thinking the state is benevolent and omnipotent and wonderful."

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on August 3, 2024.

Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics, and is the essential training ground for economists who are looking beyond the mainstream.

"The word praxeology can be used in two different ways. One is for a science of human action, as developed by Ludwig von Mises and his successors, principally Murray Rothbard. And the other is for the deductive method used in the science of human action."

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 29, 2024.

Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics, and is the essential training ground for economists who are looking beyond the mainstream.

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on August 3, 2024.

Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics, and is the essential training ground for economists who are looking beyond the mainstream.

"Division of labor really is the market economy."

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 29, 2024.

Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics, and is the essential training ground for economists who are looking beyond the mainstream.

Money, what it is, where it came from, and why it is essential for a just, thriving society and economy.

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 29, 2024.

Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics, and is the essential training ground for economists who are looking beyond the mainstream.

What do banks do? What is the difference between loan banking and deposit banking?

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 29, 2024.

Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics, and is the essential training ground for economists who are looking beyond the mainstream.

The entrepreneur is the driving force of the whole market system.

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 29, 2024.

Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics, and is the essential training ground for economists who are looking beyond the mainstream.

"The implication of incorporating into our theory of price, the valuations that we engage in as human beings with respect to time."

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 30, 2024.

Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics, and is the essential training ground for economists who are looking beyond the mainstream.