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A Libertarian Critique of Intellectual Property

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 11, 2014


In this monograph, Butler Shaffer addresses an important question that has aroused much interest among libertarians: What is the status of intellectual property? Are patents and copyrights legitimate? This is a major contribution to libertarian legal theory and an indispensable guide to a vital topic.Narrated by Clay Barnett. Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com).

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Repudiating the National Debt

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 19, 2012


Narrated by Harold Fritsche. Music by Kevin MacLeod.

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The Health Plan's Devilish Principles

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2012


Narrated by Harold Fritsche. Music by Kevin MacLeod.

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Seeing the Unseen

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 3, 2012


Narrated by Harold Fritsche. Music by Kevin MacLeod.

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The Truth About Taxes

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 2, 2012


This essay originally appeared in the Review of Austrian Economics 7, No. 2 (1994), pp. 75–90, as "The Consumption Tax: A Critique". Narrated by Harold Fritsche. Music by Kevin MacLeod.

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The Death of Politics

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 7, 2012


Originally published in Playboy in March 1969, this essay is narrated by Jeff Riggenbach. Music by Kevin MacLeod.

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Dispelling Popular Great Depression Myths

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 18, 2009


Stolyarov reviews Robert P. Murphy’s The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great Depression and the New Deal (2009).

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The Candlemakers' Petition

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 10, 2009


"The Candlemakers' Petition" is a well known satire of protectionism written and published in 1845, as part of Bastiat's Economic Sophisms. This audio essay is narrated by Gennady Stolyarov, II.

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Methodological Individualism

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 3, 2009


Includes a summary by Frank van Dun. Preface by F.A. Hayek. Read by Josiah Schmidt.

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That Which Is Seen, and That Which Is Not Seen

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 1, 2009


From Chapter I of The Bastiat Collection: Volume I. Pages 1-48 in the text. Read by Josiah Schmidt.

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The Cultural and Spiritual Legacy of Fiat Inflation

Play Episode Listen Later May 7, 2009


Chapter 13 in The Ethics of Money Production. From Part 2, "Inflation," pages 175-191. Narrated by Floy Lilley.

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Not Yours to Give

Play Episode Listen Later May 7, 2009


Taken from Free Market Economics: A Basic Reader, compiled by Bettina Bien Greaves (pp. 227-231). Narrated by Floy Lilley.

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Private and Public Services

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 30, 2009


From Chapter IX of The Bastiat Collection: Volume II: "Harmonies of Political Economy (Book Two)". Pages 481-505 in the text. Narrated by Brannon King.

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I, Pencil

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 1, 2009


The audio version of Leonard Read's classic essay. Narrated by Floy Lilley.

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Austrian School Arguments on the Free-Market Origin of Money

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 25, 2008


Austrian Economics offers an elegant, logical, and thoroughly causal explanation of how money came to be, again demonstrating the power of the free market to spontaneously organize human activity in meaningful and universally beneficial ways.

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The Historical Setting of the Austrian School of Economics

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 27, 2008


This audio essay is narrated by Gennady Stolyarov, II.

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Middle-of-the-Road Policy Leads to Socialism

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 27, 2008


This address was originally delivered before the University Club of New York on April 18, 1950. This audio essay is narrated by Gennady Stolyarov, II.

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