Individual Lectures

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The Skyscraper Curse

Booms and BustsMoney and BanksMoney and Banking

09/10/2015Audio/Video
Thirteen powerpoint slides lead you through Dr. Thornton's presentation. There exist strong correlations between either the announcement or the completion of the world's tallest building and GDP, but it is not held that you can accurately forecast a recession or financial panic by this...

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Ending the War on Drugs

Free MarketsLegal SystemU.S. EconomyEntrepreneurship

02/21/2015Audio/Video
Legalizing recreational marijuana has begun. Marijuana for medical use is already legalized in twenty states. Marijuana is not a gateway drug as it has been viewed for almost one hundred years. Begin to be more afraid of government and current legal drugs, like prescriptions. Legal free markets in...

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Nullification: An Overview

U.S. HistoryPolitical Theory

10/08/2014Audio/Video
Thomas E. Woods, Jr. presented this sample lecture from the Mises Academy's latest online course, "Nullification: A Jeffersonian Bulwark Against Tyranny" on 16 November 2010...

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Production and the Market Process

Global EconomyCapital and Interest TheoryProduction Theory

10/08/2014Audio/Video
In this course, Robert Murphy, author of the study guide to Murray Rothbard's masterpiece, 'Man, Economy, and State', will guide you through the chapters in which the market economy can finally be seen as an integrated system...

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Debate: Government Spending Can Play an Important Role in Boosting Economic Growth

Taxes and SpendingU.S. EconomyPhilosophy and MethodologyPolitical Theory

10/08/2014Audio/Video
The great debate between Keynesians and Austrians enters the digital age with the Mises Academy's first ever online formal debate, between economists Karl Smith (Assistant Professor of Public Economics and Government at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) and Robert P. Murphy (...

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The Spanish Scholastics

07/31/2014Audio/Video
Professor Jesús Huerta de Soto reviews the important legacy of the leading thinkers of the School of Salamanca, the Spanish intellectual forerunners of the Austrian School of Economics.

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2013 Mises Entrepreneurship Award

BiographiesThe Entrepreneur

06/06/2013Audio/Video
Presented to Mr. Henry Getz. Includes remarks by Peter Klein and Lew Rockwell. Recorded at the Mises Institute on 5 June 2013.

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The Great Deformation

Big GovernmentBooms and BustsFinancial MarketsFree MarketsU.S. Economy

05/23/2013Audio/Video
The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America Stockman makes clear that the facile left-right distinction of US politics obscures a deeper crisis of capitalism that spans the breadth of the American economic and political landscape

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Drugs: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

Big GovernmentHealthInterventionism

10/26/2012Audio/Video
Sponsored by the Auburn University Economics Club, this talk was presented at the Mises Institute on 1 October 2012.

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What is Money?

Money and Banks

06/21/2012Audio/Video
Delivered at the Mises Institute on 21 June 2012.

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