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Audio Mises Wire
Austrian Perspectives on Social Justice

Audio Mises Wire

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 2, 2025


Many "social justice" advocates claim to appeal to a “higher law,” but they usually refuse to acknowledge economic laws because those laws stand in their way of creating the "just" society.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/austrian-perspectives-social-justice

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Austrian Perspectives on Social Justice

Mises Media

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 2, 2025


Many "social justice" advocates claim to appeal to a “higher law,” but they usually refuse to acknowledge economic laws because those laws stand in their way of creating the "just" society.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/austrian-perspectives-social-justice

Audio Mises Wire
Can Surveys Provide Insight Into the State of the Economy?

Audio Mises Wire

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 28, 2025


Surveys used to gauge optimism or pessimism about the economy may be interesting to read, but unless they are the product of sound and realistic economic theory, they are not economically useful.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/can-surveys-provide-insight-state-economy

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Can Surveys Provide Insight Into the State of the Economy?

Mises Media

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 28, 2025


Surveys used to gauge optimism or pessimism about the economy may be interesting to read, but unless they are the product of sound and realistic economic theory, they are not economically useful.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/can-surveys-provide-insight-state-economy

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How Psychology Is Catching Up with the Reality of Human Action

Audio Mises Wire

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 25, 2025


Modern psychology has been at odds with the praxeology of the Austrian School, as psychologists have tended to see humans as passive and reactive, while Austrians view human action as purposeful. Recent developments in the field might change that narrative.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/how-psychology-catching-reality-human-action

Audio Mises Wire
MMTers Love When Governments Burn Money

Audio Mises Wire

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 25, 2025


Even when MMT advocates are correct that colonial governments at times burned money after receiving it for tax revenues, they still manage to get both the history and the causes wrong. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/mmters-love-when-governments-burn-money

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MMTers Love When Governments Burn Money

Mises Media

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 25, 2025


Even when MMT advocates are correct that colonial governments at times burned money after receiving it for tax revenues, they still manage to get both the history and the causes wrong. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/mmters-love-when-governments-burn-money

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How Psychology Is Catching Up with the Reality of Human Action

Mises Media

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 25, 2025


Modern psychology has been at odds with the praxeology of the Austrian School, as psychologists have tended to see humans as passive and reactive, while Austrians view human action as purposeful. Recent developments in the field might change that narrative.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/how-psychology-catching-reality-human-action

Audio Mises Wire
The Silent Guardian of Liberty: Hans F. Sennholz and the Seed of Mises in America

Audio Mises Wire

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 22, 2025


The biography of Hans F. Sennholz reads like a paradoxical novel—as if the protagonist had journeyed backward through the twentieth century.Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/silent-guardian-liberty-hans-f-sennholz-and-seed-mises-america

Audio Mises Wire
Rethinking Sociology with Mises: A New Austro-Libertarian Framework for Understanding Society

Audio Mises Wire

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 22, 2025


Is Austrian Economics compatible with modern sociology, which is presently dominated by collectivists? However, it is possible to apply praxeology to sociology analysis, and that is where one begins to approach this discipline in a manner that promotes liberty.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/rethinking-sociology-mises-new-austro-libertarian-framework-understanding-society

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Rethinking Sociology with Mises: A New Austro-Libertarian Framework for Understanding Society

Mises Media

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 22, 2025


Is Austrian Economics compatible with modern sociology, which is presently dominated by collectivists? However, it is possible to apply praxeology to sociology analysis, and that is where one begins to approach this discipline in a manner that promotes liberty.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/rethinking-sociology-mises-new-austro-libertarian-framework-understanding-society

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The Silent Guardian of Liberty: Hans F. Sennholz and the Seed of Mises in America

Mises Media

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 22, 2025


The biography of Hans F. Sennholz reads like a paradoxical novel—as if the protagonist had journeyed backward through the twentieth century.Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/silent-guardian-liberty-hans-f-sennholz-and-seed-mises-america

Audio Mises Wire
The Questionable Role of Quantitative Methods in Economics

Audio Mises Wire

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 21, 2025


Austrian economics veers sharply from the economic mainstream over the use of mathematics and quantitative measures. Instead, Austrians build upon irrefutable premises based upon human action.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/questionable-role-quantitative-methods-economics

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The Questionable Role of Quantitative Methods in Economics

Mises Media

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 21, 2025


Austrian economics veers sharply from the economic mainstream over the use of mathematics and quantitative measures. Instead, Austrians build upon irrefutable premises based upon human action.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/questionable-role-quantitative-methods-economics

Audio Mises Wire
The Axiom of Action and the Inescapability of Liberty

Audio Mises Wire

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 18, 2025


Socialists despise individual liberty because they believe that allowing humans to make free choices supposedly leads to selfish and anti-social behavior. However, by denying individual choice, socialists are denying human action itself.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/axiom-action-and-inescapability-liberty

Audio Mises Wire
The Invasion of the Spatializers

Audio Mises Wire

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 18, 2025


Jesús Huerta de Soto has published a series of lectures on Austrian Economics, and Dr. David Gordon in Friday Philosophy reviews his Lectures in Austrian Economics, Volume 1. Dr. Gordon is especially interested in how de Soto deals with time.Original article: https://mises.org/friday-philosophy/invasion-spatializers

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The Axiom of Action and the Inescapability of Liberty

Mises Media

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 18, 2025


Socialists despise individual liberty because they believe that allowing humans to make free choices supposedly leads to selfish and anti-social behavior. However, by denying individual choice, socialists are denying human action itself.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/axiom-action-and-inescapability-liberty

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The Invasion of the Spatializers

Mises Media

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 18, 2025


Jesús Huerta de Soto has published a series of lectures on Austrian Economics, and Dr. David Gordon in Friday Philosophy reviews his Lectures in Austrian Economics, Volume 1. Dr. Gordon is especially interested in how de Soto deals with time.Original article: https://mises.org/friday-philosophy/invasion-spatializers

Audio Mises Wire
Why Mises University Matters

Audio Mises Wire

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2025


Mises University begins Sunday, July 20, and given that misinformation abounds about the economy, it is good to have a forum where students can learn economic truths and stretch their minds.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-mises-university-matters

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Why Mises University Matters

Mises Media

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2025


Mises University begins Sunday, July 20, and given that misinformation abounds about the economy, it is good to have a forum where students can learn economic truths and stretch their minds.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-mises-university-matters

Audio Mises Wire
The Mythology of Methodological Collectivism

Audio Mises Wire

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 8, 2025


A central belief of collectivists is that people think collectively, too. Whether one is a member of a class, religious group, or ethnic group, collectivism holds that each group has distinct interests that determine how individuals in the group think. Mises would have disagreed.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/mythology-methodological-collectivism

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The Mythology of Methodological Collectivism

Mises Media

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 8, 2025


A central belief of collectivists is that people think collectively, too. Whether one is a member of a class, religious group, or ethnic group, collectivism holds that each group has distinct interests that determine how individuals in the group think. Mises would have disagreed.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/mythology-methodological-collectivism

Audio Mises Wire
The Young Rothbard: An Uncomfortable Neoclassical Economist

Audio Mises Wire

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 1, 2025


Speaking at the recent Rothbard Graduate Seminar, Dr. Joseph Salerno traces Murray Rothbard‘s intellectual development while in the economics Ph.D. program at Columbia University. Rothbard was dissatisfied with the popular schools of thought until he discovered Austrian economics.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/young-rothbard-uncomfortable-neoclassical-economist

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The Young Rothbard: An Uncomfortable Neoclassical Economist

Mises Media

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 1, 2025


Speaking at the recent Rothbard Graduate Seminar, Dr. Joseph Salerno traces Murray Rothbard‘s intellectual development while in the economics Ph.D. program at Columbia University. Rothbard was dissatisfied with the popular schools of thought until he discovered Austrian economics.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/young-rothbard-uncomfortable-neoclassical-economist

Audio Mises Wire
Entrepreneurship Can't Be Taught in a College Classroom

Audio Mises Wire

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 21, 2025


College professors have suddenly discovered entrepreneurship and are teaching about it in their classes. However, while it is an interesting subject, one cannot teach someone how to be a successful entrepreneur. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/entrepreneurship-cant-be-taught-college-classroom

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Entrepreneurship Can't Be Taught in a College Classroom

Mises Media

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 21, 2025


College professors have suddenly discovered entrepreneurship and are teaching about it in their classes. However, while it is an interesting subject, one cannot teach someone how to be a successful entrepreneur. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/entrepreneurship-cant-be-taught-college-classroom

Audio Mises Wire
Truth or Consequences

Audio Mises Wire

Play Episode Listen Later May 27, 2025


The transatlantic slave trade from Africa is a well-known chapter in the history of slavery in the Western Hemisphere, but much lesser known is the enslavement of Native Americans. Many of them were shipped to plantations in the Caribbean where they were worked to death.Original article: Truth or Consequences

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Truth or Consequences

Mises Media

Play Episode Listen Later May 27, 2025


The transatlantic slave trade from Africa is a well-known chapter in the history of slavery in the Western Hemisphere, but much lesser known is the enslavement of Native Americans. Many of them were shipped to plantations in the Caribbean where they were worked to death.Original article: Truth or Consequences

The Human Action Podcast
The Method Behind Real Economic Thinking

The Human Action Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2025


Dr. Jonathan Newman returns to the Human Action Podcast to discuss the relaunch of the Mises Academy—including his new course based on Bob's Lessons for the Young Economist textbook. But this conversation goes much deeper than curriculum. Bob and Jonathan unpack the fundamental question: What is economics, really? They explore how Austrian economics differs from psychology, history, and the natural sciences, why economics is more about understanding than prediction, and how praxeology reveals the logical structure of human choice.The New Mises Academy: Mises.org/HAP498aBob's Lessons for the Young Economist Textbook: Mises.org/HAP498bBob's Lessons for the Young Economist Teacher's Manual: Mises.org/HAP498cThe Mises Institute is giving away 100,000 copies of Murray Rothbard's, What Has Government Done to Our Money? Get your free copy at Mises.org/HAPodFree

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The Method Behind Real Economic Thinking

Mises Media

Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2025


Dr. Jonathan Newman returns to the Human Action Podcast to discuss the relaunch of the Mises Academy—including his new course based on Bob's Lessons for the Young Economist textbook. But this conversation goes much deeper than curriculum. Bob and Jonathan unpack the fundamental question: What is economics, really? They explore how Austrian economics differs from psychology, history, and the natural sciences, why economics is more about understanding than prediction, and how praxeology reveals the logical structure of human choice.The New Mises Academy: Mises.org/HAP498aBob's Lessons for the Young Economist Textbook: Mises.org/HAP498bBob's Lessons for the Young Economist Teacher's Manual: Mises.org/HAP498cThe Mises Institute is giving away 100,000 copies of Murray Rothbard's, What Has Government Done to Our Money? Get your free copy at Mises.org/HAPodFree

Audio Mises Wire
The Poor Man of Nippur and Austrian Economic Principles

Audio Mises Wire

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 31, 2025


The Austrian school recognizes that economic analysis is timeless and the ancient story of “The Poor Man of Nippur” provides an excellent example. From time preference to the structure of production, many of the lessons are contained in this story.Original article: The Poor Man of Nippur and Austrian Economic Principles

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The Poor Man of Nippur and Austrian Economic Principles

Mises Media

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 31, 2025


The Austrian school recognizes that economic analysis is timeless and the ancient story of “The Poor Man of Nippur” provides an excellent example. From time preference to the structure of production, many of the lessons are contained in this story.Original article: The Poor Man of Nippur and Austrian Economic Principles

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The Missing Secret

Mises Media

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 15, 2025


Modern academics are relentless in trying to find any nuances they can from the works of Karl Marx, but they miss the larger issues with his work. Marx was alive and active when the marginalists logically took apart his value theory, but hope springs eternal for Marx‘s supporters.Original article: The Missing Secret

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Another Merit of Medieval Bolognese Canons

Mises Media

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 2, 2025


The Austrian School of economics traces its roots to the School of Salamanca in medieval times. The scholastics of Salamanca, in turn, were influenced by the canon jurists from the University of Bologna, demonstrating the rich and historic roots of Austrian economics.Original article: Another Merit of Medieval Bolognese Canons

Audio Mises Wire
A Critique of Black Box Economics

Audio Mises Wire

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 26, 2024


Mainstream economists today examine economic phenomena from a “black box” perspective in which they look at inputs and outputs without trying to understand causal mechanisms that make the outcomes possible.Original article: A Critique of Black Box Economics

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A Critique of Black Box Economics

Mises Media

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 26, 2024


Mainstream economists today examine economic phenomena from a “black box” perspective in which they look at inputs and outputs without trying to understand causal mechanisms that make the outcomes possible.Original article: A Critique of Black Box Economics

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The Relevance of the Natural Sciences Methods in Economics

Audio Mises Wire

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 18, 2024


Modern academic economics is based upon the methodologies used to study the natural sciences. However, such methodologies are inappropriate to study economics, which must be based upon causal-realism.Original article: The Relevance of the Natural Sciences Methods in Economics

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The Relevance of the Natural Sciences Methods in Economics

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Play Episode Listen Later Dec 18, 2024


Modern academic economics is based upon the methodologies used to study the natural sciences. However, such methodologies are inappropriate to study economics, which must be based upon causal-realism.Original article: The Relevance of the Natural Sciences Methods in Economics

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Assumptions in Economics and in the Real World

Audio Mises Wire

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 15, 2024


Mainstream economists often base their analysis upon assumptions that do not square with reality. Austrian economics, on the other hand, is built upon realistic assumptions and the acknowledgement that good economics must reflect human action.Original article: Assumptions in Economics and in the Real World

Audio Mises Wire
The Battle on Lake Geneva—Mises vs. the Statists at Mont Pelerin

Audio Mises Wire

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 15, 2024


The original Mont Pelerin Society meeting in 1947 featured Ludwig von Mises, whose warnings about the dangers of socialism and totalitarianism had gone unheeded. In the wreckage of World War II, the truth of his message should have been obvious. It wasn't.Original article: The Battle on Lake Geneva—Mises vs. the Statists at Mont Pelerin

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Wanted: Critics of Austrian Economics

Audio Mises Wire

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 15, 2024


Austrian economics today needs critics. It doesn‘t need the critics (like Paul Krugman) who cannot give valid and accurate criticisms, but rather people who actually understand the concepts upon which Austrian thinking is built provide a real challenge.Original article: Wanted: Critics of Austrian Economics

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The Battle on Lake Geneva—Mises vs. the Statists at Mont Pelerin

Mises Media

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 15, 2024


The original Mont Pelerin Society meeting in 1947 featured Ludwig von Mises, whose warnings about the dangers of socialism and totalitarianism had gone unheeded. In the wreckage of World War II, the truth of his message should have been obvious. It wasn't.Original article: The Battle on Lake Geneva—Mises vs. the Statists at Mont Pelerin

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Assumptions in Economics and in the Real World

Mises Media

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 15, 2024


Mainstream economists often base their analysis upon assumptions that do not square with reality. Austrian economics, on the other hand, is built upon realistic assumptions and the acknowledgement that good economics must reflect human action.Original article: Assumptions in Economics and in the Real World

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Wanted: Critics of Austrian Economics

Mises Media

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 15, 2024


Austrian economics today needs critics. It doesn‘t need the critics (like Paul Krugman) who cannot give valid and accurate criticisms, but rather people who actually understand the concepts upon which Austrian thinking is built provide a real challenge.Original article: Wanted: Critics of Austrian Economics

Audio Mises Wire
Entrepreneurial Profit Follows Good Decisions, Not Exploitation

Audio Mises Wire

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 9, 2024


Employing the Labor Theory of Value, Marx claimed that entrepreneurial profits arise from exploitation of workers. In reality, entrepreneurs earn profits when they correctly gauge markets. Exploitation has nothing to do with it.Original article: Entrepreneurial Profit Follows Good Decisions, Not Exploitation

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Entrepreneurial Profit Follows Good Decisions, Not Exploitation

Mises Media

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 9, 2024


Employing the Labor Theory of Value, Marx claimed that entrepreneurial profits arise from exploitation of workers. In reality, entrepreneurs earn profits when they correctly gauge markets. Exploitation has nothing to do with it.Original article: Entrepreneurial Profit Follows Good Decisions, Not Exploitation

Audio Mises Wire
Why People Pay Higher Prices for Some Goods Relative to Others

Audio Mises Wire

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 19, 2024


One of the important points made by Carl Menger in his 1871 Principles is that people ordinally rank their preferences, valuing some things more than others. While this seems to be a common-sense principle, it actually has important implications for economic theory.Original article: Why People Pay Higher Prices for Some Goods Relative to Others

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Answering the Confused Critics of Austrian Economics

Audio Mises Wire

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 19, 2024


There are numerous critics of the Austrian School of economics, but when their disparagements are closely examined, the so-called experts themselves are wrong. Austrians can do a better job of setting the record straight.Original article: Answering the Confused Critics of Austrian Economics

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Answering the Confused Critics of Austrian Economics

Mises Media

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 19, 2024


There are numerous critics of the Austrian School of economics, but when their disparagements are closely examined, the so-called experts themselves are wrong. Austrians can do a better job of setting the record straight.Original article: Answering the Confused Critics of Austrian Economics

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Why People Pay Higher Prices for Some Goods Relative to Others

Mises Media

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 19, 2024


One of the important points made by Carl Menger in his 1871 Principles is that people ordinally rank their preferences, valuing some things more than others. While this seems to be a common-sense principle, it actually has important implications for economic theory.Original article: Why People Pay Higher Prices for Some Goods Relative to Others