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Economy, Society, and History

<p>  </p><h2 class="page-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #38709e; font-family: crimson_text, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 25px; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: top;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiBrHZlo-0j5c8kLM0L9OT2q0UZh_01EoyNkQuAq1Vz71DCIh2qzjvf09WXnCNa0n0EA-mKYjNwGHP97umL3ilclasVz5U9Dyi7yMRYlilaelDqtGxHeWRow-es9v_WJeV6ZW3LDHIAnLQ_ZxsuR6VMXKljcjJcuQXMzgoYQuFzBsXxLT0zhCGWv7t22g" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="330" data-original-width="480" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiBrHZlo-0j5c8kLM0L9OT2q0UZh_01EoyNkQuAq1Vz71DCIh2qzjvf09WXnCNa0n0EA-mKYjNwGHP97umL3ilclasVz5U9Dyi7yMRYlilaelDqtGxHeWRow-es9v_WJeV6ZW3LDHIAnLQ_ZxsuR6VMXKljcjJcuQXMzgoYQuFzBsXxLT0zhCGWv7t22g" width="320" /></a></div><span class="tag-label bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; padding-right: 5px; text-align: left; text-transform: uppercase;">TAGS</span><span style="color: #51585c; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/socialism" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Socialism</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/strategy" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Strategy</a> </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/political-theory" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Political Theory</a> </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/private-property" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Private Property</a> </span></div></h2><section class="group-date-author" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/profile/hans-hermann-hoppe" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; text-decoration: none;">Hans-Hermann Hoppe</a></span></section><div class="field field-name-field-narrator" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div class="label-inline" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: left; font-weight: bold; margin-right: 2px;">Narrator: </div><a href="https://mises.org/profile/paul-strikwerda" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #38709e; text-decoration: none;">Paul Strikwerda</a></div><div class="body-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 12.5px;">In June 2004, Professor Hoppe visited the Mises Institute in Auburn to deliver an ambitious series of lectures titled <a href="https://mises.org/node/55727" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #38709e; text-decoration: none;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Economy, Society, and Histor</em>y</a>.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 12.5px;">This project brings together the core of Hoppe’s lifetime of theoretical work in one vital and cohesive source. Here we find provocative themes developed by Hoppe in the 1980s and 90s, particularly in his essays fou

Sep 23, 2022

Cronyism: Liberty versus Power in Early America, 1607–1849

<p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhaQUVG_tIs3pVoAuv1Hpju2IclT6c05bhEknia2oxVxMbzcTjRKQofrgCjYPatlLeQynGjGKmj141vv2c0alWoexMMqq_idZgWuEYIQa61wegz7TTJihyBOKkNpurCebMJZW2HTPSGIQQKq7fCzTx_vH2BKOvfFjeW8x2YFkkiST7-FNEOhxTB4ZFX9g" style="clear: left; display: inline; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhaQUVG_tIs3pVoAuv1Hpju2IclT6c05bhEknia2oxVxMbzcTjRKQofrgCjYPatlLeQynGjGKmj141vv2c0alWoexMMqq_idZgWuEYIQa61wegz7TTJihyBOKkNpurCebMJZW2HTPSGIQQKq7fCzTx_vH2BKOvfFjeW8x2YFkkiST7-FNEOhxTB4ZFX9g" width="240" /></a></p><br /><p class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin: 0px 0px 12.5px;"><span class="tag-label bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600; padding-right: 5px; text-transform: uppercase;">TAGS</span> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/cronyism-and-corporatism" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Cronyism and Corporatism</a> </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/us-history" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">U.S. History</a> </span></p><p class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin: 0px 0px 12.5px;"><br /></p><section class="group-date-author" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/profile/patrick-newman-0" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; text-decoration: none;">Patrick Newman</a></span></section><div class="body-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 12.5px;"> History is a clash between the forces of liberty and the proponents of power. In <a href="https://mises.org/library/cronyism-liberty-versus-power-early-america-1607-1849" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #38709e; text-decoration: none;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Cronyism</em></a>, Patrick Newman offers a compelling and important narrative on the early days of the American republic, and the rise of a Federal regime that conquers a nation conceived in liberty.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 12.5px;"> Narrated by Scott R. Pollack</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 12.5px;"><br /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 12.5px;"><br /></p><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"><a href="http://mp3.anarchistphilosophies.com/Cronyism.mp3" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: #38709e; background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 6px 10px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: middle; white-space: nowrap;" target="_blank" title="01-Introduction.mp3" type="audio/mpeg; length=23125769">Download audio file</a></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> <a href="https://mises.org/library/cronyism-liberty-versus-power-early-america-1607-1849-audiobook" style="color: #3d85c6; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">READ MORE</a></div></div>

Mar 15, 2022

Democracy: The God That Failed Part 1

<p>  </p><h2 class="page-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #38709e; font-family: crimson_text, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 25px; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: top;"><br /></h2><div class="group-image-wrapper field-group-html-element pull-left" id="slideshow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-right: 20px; width: 240px;"><div class="image border-secondary" style="border-top-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 8px; box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="media media--image" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin-top: 0px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; zoom: 1;"><img alt="Democracy: The God That Failed Audiobook" class="media__element b-lazy b-loaded" data-bio-hit="1" height="" loading="lazy" src="https://cdn.mises.org/styles/slideshow/s3/static-page/img/democracy_hoppe_750x516_20210413.jpg?itok=redI7Gzi" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; min-height: 1px; opacity: 1; vertical-align: middle;" title="Democracy: The God That Failed Audiobook" typeof="foaf:Image" width="240" /></div></div></div><p class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin: 0px 0px 12.5px;"><span class="tag-label bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600; padding-right: 5px; text-transform: uppercase;">TAGS</span> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/world-history" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">World History</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/other-schools-thought" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Other Schools of Thought</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/philosophy-and-methodology" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Philosophy and Methodology</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/political-theory" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Political Theory</a> </span></p><section class="group-date-author" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/profile/hans-hermann-hoppe" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; text-decoration: none;">Hans-Hermann Hoppe</a> </span></section><div class="body-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 12.5px;">This book is a systematic treatment of the historic transformation of the West from limited monarchy to unlimited democracy. Revisionist in nature, it reaches the conclusion that monarchy, with all its failings, is a lesser evil than mass democracy, but outlines deficiencies in both as systems of guarding liberty. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 12.5px;">Narrated by Paul Strikwerda. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 12.5px;"><br /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 12.5px;"><br /></p><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"><a href="http://mp3.anarchistphilosophies.com/democracythegodthatfailed1.mp3" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: #38709e; background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 6px 10px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: middle; white-space: nowrap;" target="_blank" title="01-Introduction.mp3" type="audio/mpeg; length=23125769">Download audio file</a></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5

Jun 26, 2021

Democracy: The God That Failed Part 2

<p>  </p><h2 class="page-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #38709e; font-family: crimson_text, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 25px; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: top;"><br /></h2><div class="group-image-wrapper field-group-html-element pull-left" id="slideshow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-right: 20px; width: 240px;"><div class="image border-secondary" style="border-top-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 8px; box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="media media--image" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin-top: 0px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; zoom: 1;"><img alt="Democracy: The God That Failed Audiobook" class="media__element b-lazy b-loaded" data-bio-hit="1" height="" loading="lazy" src="https://cdn.mises.org/styles/slideshow/s3/static-page/img/democracy_hoppe_750x516_20210413.jpg?itok=redI7Gzi" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; min-height: 1px; opacity: 1; vertical-align: middle;" title="Democracy: The God That Failed Audiobook" typeof="foaf:Image" width="240" /></div></div></div><p class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin: 0px 0px 12.5px;"><span class="tag-label bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600; padding-right: 5px; text-transform: uppercase;">TAGS</span> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/world-history" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">World History</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/other-schools-thought" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Other Schools of Thought</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/philosophy-and-methodology" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Philosophy and Methodology</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/political-theory" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Political Theory</a> </span></p><section class="group-date-author" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/profile/hans-hermann-hoppe" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; text-decoration: none;">Hans-Hermann Hoppe</a> </span></section><div class="body-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 12.5px;">This book is a systematic treatment of the historic transformation of the West from limited monarchy to unlimited democracy. Revisionist in nature, it reaches the conclusion that monarchy, with all its failings, is a lesser evil than mass democracy, but outlines deficiencies in both as systems of guarding liberty. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 12.5px;">Narrated by Paul Strikwerda. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 12.5px;"><br /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 12.5px;"><br /></p><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"><a href="http://mp3.anarchistphilosophies.com/democracythegodthatfailed2.mp3" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: #38709e; background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 6px 10px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: middle; white-space: nowrap;" target="_blank" title="01-Introduction.mp3" type="audio/mpeg; length=23125769">Download audio file</a></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5

Jun 17, 2021

Defending the Undefendable 2

<p> </p><h2 class="page-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #38709e; font-family: crimson_text, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 25px; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: top;"><br /></h2><div class="group-image-wrapper field-group-html-element pull-left" id="slideshow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; float: left !important; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-right: 20px; width: 240px;"><div class="image border-secondary" style="border-top-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 8px; box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="media media--image" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin-top: 0px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; zoom: 1;"><img alt="Defending the Undefendable II audiobook" class="media__element b-lazy b-loaded" data-bio-hit="1" height="" loading="lazy" src="https://cdn.mises.org/styles/slideshow/s3/static-page/img/dtu2-750x516-20210223.jpg?itok=GbMofdjg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; min-height: 1px; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 500ms ease-in-out; vertical-align: middle;" title="Defending the Undefendable II audiobook" typeof="foaf:Image" width="240" /></div></div><br /></div><p class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin: 0px 0px 12.5px;"><span class="tag-label bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600; padding-right: 5px; text-transform: uppercase;">TAGS</span> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/free-markets" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Free Markets</a> </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/monopoly-and-competition" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Monopoly and Competition</a> </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/subjectivism" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Subjectivism</a> </span></p><section class="group-date-author" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/profile/walter-block" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; text-decoration: none;">Walter Block</a></span></section><div class="body-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 12.5px;">The true test of our commitment to personal liberty doesn't come when we permit others to engage in those peaceable, voluntary acts with which we agree. It comes when we permit others to engage in peaceable, voluntary acts we find offensive. Walter Block's <a href="http://mises.org/dtu2" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #38709e; text-decoration: none;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Defending the Undefendable II</em></a> contains thirty chapters defending behavior that is probably offensive to most Americans, and many that are downright illegal. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 12.5px;">This book features a foreword by Ron Paul. Narrated by Patrick Smith.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 12.5px;"><br /></p></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"><a href="http://mp3.anarchistphilosophies.com/DefendingTheUndefendable2.mp3" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: #38709e; background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 6px 10px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: middle; white-space: nowrap;" tar

Apr 5, 2021

Conceived in Liberty, Volume 5: The New Republic: 1784–1791

<h2 class="page-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #38709e; font-family: crimson_text, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 25px; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: top;"> <br /></h2> <div class="group-image-wrapper field-group-html-element pull-left" id="slideshow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; float: left !important; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-right: 20px; width: 240px;"> <div class="image border-secondary" style="border-top-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 8px; box-sizing: border-box;"> <div class="flexslider optionset-node-slideshow flexslider-processed" id="flexslider-1" style="-webkit-box-shadow: none; background-color: transparent; border-bottom-left-radius: 4px; border-bottom-right-radius: 4px; border-top-left-radius: 4px; border-top-right-radius: 4px; border: 0px; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; zoom: 1;"> <div class="flex-viewport" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-height: 2000px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; transition: all 1s ease;"> <ul class="slides" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px); transition-duration: 0s; width: 480px; zoom: 1;"> <li style="-webkit-backface-visibility: hidden; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; float: left; width: 240px;"><img alt="Conceived in Liberty, Volume 5 Audiobook" draggable="false" src="https://cdn.mises.org/styles/slideshow/s3/static-page/img/CIL_5_750x516_20200120.jpg?itok=Ncd9AxCP" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; vertical-align: middle; width: 240px;" title="Conceived in Liberty, Volume 5 Audiobook" typeof="foaf:Image" /></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> <span class="tag-label bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600; padding-right: 5px; text-transform: uppercase;"> TAGS</span>  <span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/us-history" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">U.S. History</a> </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/history-austrian-school-economics" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">History of the Austrian School of Economics</a> </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/political-theory" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Political Theory</a> </span></div> <section class="group-date-author" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/profile/murray-n-rothbard" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; text-decoration: none;">Murray N. Rothbard</a> </span></section><div class="body-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px;"> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> The fifth volume of <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Conceived in Liberty</em> highlights the most important battle of the American project — one that continues to this day — the conflict between those who want to centralize power, and those who choose to stand to defend the American heritage of liberty. </div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> This book features a foreword by Judge Andrew Napolitano, a preface by Dr. Thomas E. Woods, and an introduction by Dr. Patrick Newman. Narrated by Millian Quinteros. </div> </div> <div class="view view-term-landing view-id-term_landing view-display-id-author_box audience author-box view-dom-id-9218ba5e72023396a9904938ee8b0385" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-top: 45px;">

Feb 4, 2020

A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism

<h2 class="page-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #38709e; font-family: crimson_text, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 25px; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: top;"> <br /></h2> <div class="group-image-wrapper field-group-html-element pull-left" id="slideshow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; float: left; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-right: 20px; width: 240px;"> <div class="image border-secondary" style="border-top-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 8px; box-sizing: border-box;"> <div class="flexslider optionset-node-slideshow flexslider-processed" id="flexslider-1" style="-webkit-box-shadow: none; background-color: transparent; border-bottom-left-radius: 4px; border-bottom-right-radius: 4px; border-top-left-radius: 4px; border-top-right-radius: 4px; border: 0px; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; zoom: 1;"> <div class="flex-viewport" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-height: 2000px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; transition: all 1s ease;"> <ul class="slides" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px); transition-duration: 0s; width: 480px; zoom: 1;"> <li style="-webkit-backface-visibility: hidden; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; float: left; width: 240px;"><img alt="A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism Audiobook" draggable="false" src="https://mises-media.s3.amazonaws.com/styles/slideshow/s3/static-page/img/Theory%20of%20Socialism%20and%20Capitalism_Hoppe_750x516.jpg?itok=qpUvFnuo" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; vertical-align: middle; width: 240px;" title="A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism Audiobook" typeof="foaf:Image" /></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> <span class="tag-label bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600; padding-right: 5px; text-transform: uppercase;">TAGS</span>  <span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/calculation-and-knowledge" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Calculation and Knowledge</a> </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/interventionism" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Interventionism</a> </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/political-theory" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Political Theory</a> </span></div> <br /> <section class="group-date-author" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; font-size: 15px;"><span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/profile/hans-hermann-hoppe" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; text-decoration: none;">Hans-Hermann Hoppe</a></span>'s first treatise in English — actually his first book in English — and the one that put him on the map as a social thinker and economist to watch. He argued that there are only two possible archetypes in economic affairs: socialism and capitalism. All systems are combinations of those two types. The capitalist model he defines as pure protection of private property, free association, and exchange — no exceptions. All deviations from that ideal are species of socialism, with public ownership and interference with trade.</section><br /> <div class="body-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; font-size: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px;"> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> Narrated by Jim Vann.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> <br /></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> <a href="http://mp3.anarchistphilosophies.com/atheoryofsocialismandcapitalism.mp3" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: #38709e; background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 6px 10px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: middle; white-space: nowrap;" target="_blank" title="01-Introduction.mp3" type="audio/mpeg; length=23125769">Download audio file</a></div> &

Jul 22, 2019

The Private Production of Defense

<h2 class="page-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #38709e; font-family: crimson_text, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 25px; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: top;"> <br /></h2> <div class="group-image-wrapper field-group-html-element pull-left" id="slideshow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; float: left !important; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-right: 20px; width: 240px;"> <div class="image border-secondary" style="border-top-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 8px; box-sizing: border-box;"> <div class="flexslider optionset-node-slideshow flexslider-processed" id="flexslider-1" style="-webkit-box-shadow: none; background-color: transparent; border-bottom-left-radius: 4px; border-bottom-right-radius: 4px; border-top-left-radius: 4px; border-top-right-radius: 4px; border: 0px; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; zoom: 1;"> <div class="flex-viewport" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-height: 2000px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; transition: all 1s ease;"> <ul class="slides" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px); transition-duration: 0s; width: 480px; zoom: 1;"> <li style="-webkit-backface-visibility: hidden; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; float: left; width: 240px;"><img alt="Hans Hoppe Private Production of Defense" draggable="false" src="https://mises-media.s3.amazonaws.com/styles/slideshow/s3/static-page/img/Private%20Production%20of%20Defense_Hoppe_20190318_750x516.jpg?itok=y66tb5IA" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; vertical-align: middle; width: 240px;" title="Hans Hoppe Private Production of Defense" typeof="foaf:Image" /></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> <span class="tag-label bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600; padding-right: 5px; text-transform: uppercase;">TAGS</span> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/war-and-foreign-policy" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">War and Foreign Policy</a> </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/political-theory" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Political Theory</a> </span></div> <div class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> <a href="https://mises.org/profile/hans-hermann-hoppe" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #00426b; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none;">Hans-Hermann Hoppe</a><span style="caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; font-size: 15px;"> takes on the most difficult subject in economic and political theory: the provision of security. He argues that the service is better provided by free markets than government, while addressing a hundred counter-arguments. Here we have an important updating of an argument rarely made even in the libertarian tradition. </span></div> <div class="body-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px;"> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> Narrated by Jim Vann.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> <br /></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> <a href="http://mp3.anarchistphilosophies.com/theprivateproductionofdefense.mp3" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: #38709e; background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 6px 10px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: middle; white-space: nowrap;" target="_blank" title="01-Introduction.mp3" type="audio/mpeg; length=23125769">Download aud

Jul 12, 2019

The Myth of National Defense Part 1

<div class="post-title-container" style="font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <h3 class="post-title entry-title" style="color: #212121; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 500; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> <br /></h3> </div> <div class="post-body entry-content float-container" id="post-body-2430752739828392557" style="font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px;"> <div class="group-image-wrapper field-group-html-element pull-left" id="slideshow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; float: left !important; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-right: 20px; width: 240px;"> <div class="image border-secondary" style="border-top-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 8px; box-sizing: border-box;"> <div class="flexslider optionset-node-slideshow flexslider-processed" id="flexslider-1" style="-webkit-box-shadow: none; background-color: transparent; border-bottom-left-radius: 4px; border-bottom-right-radius: 4px; border-top-left-radius: 4px; border-top-right-radius: 4px; border: 0px; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; zoom: 1;"> <div class="flex-viewport" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-height: 2000px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; transition: all 1s ease;"> <ul class="slides" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px); transition-duration: 0s; width: 480px; zoom: 1;"> <li style="-webkit-backface-visibility: hidden; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; float: left; width: 240px;"><img alt="The Myth of National Defense Audiobook Hans-Hermann Hoppe" draggable="false" src="https://mises-media.s3.amazonaws.com/styles/slideshow/s3/static-page/img/Myth%20of%20National%20Defense_Hoppe_20190319-750x516.jpg?itok=R0MxyDuP" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: inherit; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 240px;" title="The Myth of National Defense Audiobook Hans-Hermann Hoppe" typeof="foaf:Image" /></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> <span class="tag-label bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600; padding-right: 5px; text-transform: uppercase;"> TAGS</span> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/war-and-foreign-policy" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">War and Foreign Policy</a> </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/interventionism" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Interventionism</a> </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/monopoly-and-competition" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Monopoly and Competition</a> </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/political-theory" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Political Theory</a></span></div> <section class="group-date-author" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-weight: 600; text-transform: uppercase;"> </span><a href="https://mises.org/profile/hans-hermann-hoppe" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; text-decoration: none;">Hans-Hermann Hoppe</a></span></section><div class="body-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px;"> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;">  Need the state to provide national defense? Think again, and get ready for a wild intellectual ride. With eleven chapters by top libertarian scholars on all aspects of defense, this book edited by Hans-Hermann Hoppe represents an ambitious attempt to extend the idea of free enterprise to the provision of security services.</div> <div style="box-s

Jun 26, 2019

The Myth of National Defense Part 2

<div class="post-title-container" style="font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <h3 class="post-title entry-title" style="color: #212121; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 500; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> <br /></h3> </div> <div class="post-body entry-content float-container" id="post-body-2430752739828392557" style="font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px;"> <div class="group-image-wrapper field-group-html-element pull-left" id="slideshow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; float: left !important; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-right: 20px; width: 240px;"> <div class="image border-secondary" style="border-top-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 8px; box-sizing: border-box;"> <div class="flexslider optionset-node-slideshow flexslider-processed" id="flexslider-1" style="-webkit-box-shadow: none; background-color: transparent; border-bottom-left-radius: 4px; border-bottom-right-radius: 4px; border-top-left-radius: 4px; border-top-right-radius: 4px; border: 0px; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; zoom: 1;"> <div class="flex-viewport" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-height: 2000px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; transition: all 1s ease;"> <ul class="slides" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px); transition-duration: 0s; width: 480px; zoom: 1;"> <li style="-webkit-backface-visibility: hidden; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; float: left; width: 240px;"><img alt="The Myth of National Defense Audiobook Hans-Hermann Hoppe" draggable="false" src="https://mises-media.s3.amazonaws.com/styles/slideshow/s3/static-page/img/Myth%20of%20National%20Defense_Hoppe_20190319-750x516.jpg?itok=R0MxyDuP" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: inherit; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 240px;" title="The Myth of National Defense Audiobook Hans-Hermann Hoppe" typeof="foaf:Image" /></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> <span class="tag-label bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600; padding-right: 5px; text-transform: uppercase;"> TAGS</span> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/war-and-foreign-policy" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">War and Foreign Policy</a> </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/interventionism" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Interventionism</a> </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/monopoly-and-competition" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Monopoly and Competition</a> </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/political-theory" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Political Theory</a></span></div> <section class="group-date-author" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-weight: 600; text-transform: uppercase;"> </span><a href="https://mises.org/profile/hans-hermann-hoppe" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; text-decoration: none;">Hans-Hermann Hoppe</a></span></section><div class="body-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px;"> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;">  Need the state to provide national defense? Think again, and get ready for a wild intellectual ride. With eleven chapters by top libertarian scholars on all aspects of defense, this book edited by Hans-Hermann Hoppe represents an ambitious attempt to extend the idea of free enterprise to the provision of security services.</div> <div style="box-s

Jun 18, 2019

Free Private Cities: Making Governments Compete For You

<div> <br /></div> <div> <div class="group-image-wrapper field-group-html-element pull-left" id="slideshow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; float: left !important; font-family: myriad-pro, "helvetica neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-right: 20px; width: 240px;"> <div class="image border-secondary" style="border-top-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 8px; box-sizing: border-box;"> <div class="flexslider optionset-node-slideshow flexslider-processed" id="flexslider-1" style="-webkit-box-shadow: none; background-position: 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 4px; border-bottom-right-radius: 4px; border-top-left-radius: 4px; border-top-right-radius: 4px; border: 0px; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; zoom: 1;"> <div class="flex-viewport" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-height: 2000px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; transition: all 1s ease;"> <ul class="slides" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px); transition-duration: 0s; width: 480px; zoom: 1;"> <li style="-webkit-backface-visibility: hidden; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; float: left; width: 240px;"><img alt="Free Private Cities: Making Governments Compete For You Audiobook" draggable="false" src="https://mises-media.s3.amazonaws.com/styles/slideshow/s3/static-page/img/Free%20Private%20Cities_Gebel_20190211_750x516.jpg?itok=dCxJeOEj" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; vertical-align: middle; width: 240px;" title="Free Private Cities: Making Governments Compete For You Audiobook" typeof="foaf:Image" /></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; font-family: myriad-pro, "helvetica neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> <span class="tag-label bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600; padding-right: 5px; text-transform: uppercase;"> TAGS</span>  <span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/decentralization-and-secession" style="background-position: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Decentralization and Secession</a>, </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/free-markets" style="background-position: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Free Markets</a>, </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/private-property" style="background-position: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Private Property</a> </span></div> <section class="group-date-author" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, "helvetica neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/profile/titus-gebel" style="background-position: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; text-decoration: none;">Titus Gebel</a> </span></section><section class="group-date-author" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, "helvetica neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><br /></section><section class="group-date-author" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, "helvetica neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> <a href="http://mp3.anarchistphilosophies.com/freeprivatecities.mp3" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: #38709e; background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 6px 10px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: middle; white-space: nowrap;" target="_blank" title="01-Introduction.mp3" type="audio/mpeg; length=23125769">Download audio file</a> </div> <div style="box-sizing: b

May 12, 2019

Busting Myths about the State and the Libertarian Alternative

<h2 class="page-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #38709e; font-family: crimson_text, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 25px; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: top;"> <br /></h2> <div class="group-image-wrapper field-group-html-element pull-left" id="slideshow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; float: left !important; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-right: 20px; width: 240px;"> <div class="image border-secondary" style="border-top-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 8px; box-sizing: border-box;"> <div class="flexslider optionset-node-slideshow flexslider-processed" id="flexslider-1" style="-webkit-box-shadow: none; background-color: transparent; border-bottom-left-radius: 4px; border-bottom-right-radius: 4px; border-top-left-radius: 4px; border-top-right-radius: 4px; border: 0px; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; zoom: 1;"> <div class="flex-viewport" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-height: 2000px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; transition: all 1s ease;"> <ul class="slides" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px); transition-duration: 0s; width: 480px; zoom: 1;"> <li style="-webkit-backface-visibility: hidden; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; float: left; width: 240px;"><img alt="Busting Myths About the State_Rofer_750x516_20181204.jpg" draggable="false" src="https://mises-media.s3.amazonaws.com/styles/slideshow/s3/static-page/img/Busting%20Myths%20About%20the%20State_Rofer_750x516_20181204.jpg?itok=tP72wNma" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; vertical-align: middle; width: 240px;" typeof="foaf:Image" /></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> <span class="tag-label bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600; padding-right: 5px; text-transform: uppercase;">TAGS </span> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/big-government" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Big Government</a> </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/free-markets" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Free Markets</a> </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/other-schools-thought" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Other Schools of Thought</a> </span></div> <section class="group-date-author" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/profile/zack-rofer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; text-decoration: none;">Zack Rofer</a> </span></section><div class="body-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px;"> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> There are many popular myths that are used to try to justify the existence of the state, and also many popular myths about libertarianism and the free market. Zack Rofer's work explodes both sets of myths, and is both a primer for those taking a first look at these topics, as well as a tool for libertarians looking to sharpen their advocacy. </div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> Narrated by Jim Vann. </div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> <a href="http://mp3.anarchistphilosophies.com/BustingMythsabouttheStateandtheLibertarianAlternative.mp3" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: #38709e; background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 6px 10px; text-al

Feb 11, 2019

Liberty, Dicta & Force

<h2 class="page-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #38709e; font-family: crimson_text, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 25px; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: top;"> <br /></h2> <div class="group-image-wrapper field-group-html-element pull-left" id="slideshow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; float: left !important; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-right: 20px; width: 240px;"> <div class="image border-secondary" style="border-top-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 8px; box-sizing: border-box;"> <div class="flexslider optionset-node-slideshow flexslider-processed" id="flexslider-1" style="-webkit-box-shadow: none; background-color: transparent; border-bottom-left-radius: 4px; border-bottom-right-radius: 4px; border-top-left-radius: 4px; border-top-right-radius: 4px; border: 0px; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; zoom: 1;"> <div class="flex-viewport" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-height: 2000px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; transition: all 1s ease;"> <ul class="slides" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px); transition-duration: 0s; width: 480px; zoom: 1;"> <li style="-webkit-backface-visibility: hidden; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; float: left; width: 240px;"><img alt="Liberty, Dicta & Force Audiobook" draggable="false" src="https://mises-media.s3.amazonaws.com/styles/slideshow/s3/static-page/img/Liberty%20Dicta%20Force%20audiobook_20181205_750x516.jpg?itok=GO9VZCGF" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; vertical-align: middle; width: 240px;" title="Liberty, Dicta & Force Audiobook" typeof="foaf:Image" /></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> <span class="tag-label bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600; padding-right: 5px; text-transform: uppercase;"> TAGS </span> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/big-government" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Big Government</a> </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/political-theory" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Political Theory</a> </span></div> <section class="group-date-author" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-weight: 600; text-transform: uppercase;"> </span><a href="https://mises.org/profile/louis-e-carabini" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; text-decoration: none;">Louis E. Carabini</a> </span></section><div class="body-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px;"> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> Advancing social ideas that do not demand obedience or compliance requires far more personal patience than simply forcing others to comply via the political ballot box. The widely held idea that dicta and force can serve a useful purpose will eventually fade into backward thinking in the so-called public sector as it has in the private sector. Time, nature, reason, and the human spirit will see to that. Irrespective of good intentions or the approval by consensus, nature's unrelenting feedback will gradually drive ruling political authorities to extinction.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> Narrated by Daniel Bennett.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> <br /></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> <a href="http://mp3.anarchistphilosophies.com/libertydictaforce.mp3" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: #38709e; background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-ra

Jan 30, 2019

The Betrayal of the American Right

<h2 class="page-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #38709e; font-family: crimson_text, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 25px; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: top;"> <br /></h2> <div class="group-image-wrapper field-group-html-element pull-left" id="slideshow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; float: left !important; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-right: 20px; width: 240px;"> <div class="image border-secondary" style="border-top-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 8px; box-sizing: border-box;"> <div class="flexslider optionset-node-slideshow flexslider-processed" id="flexslider-1" style="-webkit-box-shadow: none; background-color: transparent; border-bottom-left-radius: 4px; border-bottom-right-radius: 4px; border-top-left-radius: 4px; border-top-right-radius: 4px; border: 0px; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; zoom: 1;"> <div class="flex-viewport" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-height: 2000px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; transition: all 1s ease;"> <ul class="slides" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px); transition-duration: 0s; width: 480px; zoom: 1;"> <li style="-webkit-backface-visibility: hidden; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; float: left; width: 240px;"><img alt="The Betrayal of the American Right by Murray N. Rothbard" draggable="false" src="https://mises-media.s3.amazonaws.com/styles/slideshow/s3/static-page/img/Betrayal%20of%20the%20American%20Right_750x516.jpg?itok=LKf7cG36" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; vertical-align: middle; width: 240px;" title="The Betrayal of the American Right by Murray N. Rothbard" typeof="foaf:Image" /></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> <span class="tag-label bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600; padding-right: 5px; text-transform: uppercase;">TAGS </span> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/biographies" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Biographies</a> </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/us-history" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">U.S. History</a> </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/war-and-foreign-policy" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">War and Foreign Policy</a> </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/political-theory" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Political Theory</a></span></div> <section class="group-date-author" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/profile/murray-n-rothbard" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; text-decoration: none;">Murray N. Rothbard</a></span></section><div class="body-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px;"> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> After World War II, the "Old Right" was derailed by an interventionist group of anti-communist crusaders—and Libertarian ideas went by the wayside. Here, Murray Rothbard tells the sorry tale from the inside.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> Narrated by Ian Temple.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> <br /></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> <a href="http://mp3.anarchistphilosophies.com/betrayaloftheamericanright.mp3" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: #38709e; background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-rad

Jan 17, 2019

Education: Free and Compulsory

<h2 class="page-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #38709e; font-family: crimson_text, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 25px; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: top;"> <br /></h2> <div class="group-image-wrapper field-group-html-element pull-left" id="slideshow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; float: left !important; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-right: 20px; width: 240px;"> <div class="image border-secondary" style="border-top-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 8px; box-sizing: border-box;"> <div class="flexslider optionset-node-slideshow flexslider-processed" id="flexslider-1" style="-webkit-box-shadow: none; background-color: transparent; border-bottom-left-radius: 4px; border-bottom-right-radius: 4px; border-top-left-radius: 4px; border-top-right-radius: 4px; border: 0px; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; zoom: 1;"> <div class="flex-viewport" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-height: 2000px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; transition: all 1s ease;"> <ul class="slides" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px); transition-duration: 0s; width: 480px; zoom: 1;"> <li style="-webkit-backface-visibility: hidden; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; float: left; width: 240px;"><img alt="Education: Free and Compulsory" draggable="false" src="https://mises-media.s3.amazonaws.com/styles/slideshow/s3/static-page/img/Education_Rothbard_750x516.jpg?itok=s3Z_Fa0Y" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; vertical-align: middle; width: 240px;" title="Education: Free and Compulsory" typeof="foaf:Image" /></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> <span class="tag-label bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600; padding-right: 5px; text-transform: uppercase;"> TAGS</span>  <span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/education" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Education</a></span></div> <section class="group-date-author" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/profile/murray-n-rothbard" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; text-decoration: none;">Murray N. Rothbard</a></span></section><div class="body-content embedded-media" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px;"> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> <br /></div> <span class="file" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; display: block; margin-bottom: 16px; text-align: center;"></span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> </div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> What is it about today's school system that so many find unsatisfactory? Why have generations of reformers failed to improve the educational system, and, indeed, caused it to degenerate further and further into an ever declining level of mediocrity?</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> In this radical and scholarly monograph, Murray N. Rothbard identifies the crucial feature of our educational system that dooms it to fail: at every level, from financing to attendance, the system relies on compulsion instead of voluntary consent. In contrast, a market-based system of schools would adhere to a purely voluntary ethic, financed with private funds, and administered entirely by private enterprise.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box;"> This audiobook is made available through the generosity of Mr. Tyler Folger. It is narrated by Graham Wright.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box;"> <br /></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box;"> <a href="http://mp3.anarchistphilosophies.com/educationfreeandcompulsory.mp3" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: #38709e; background-image: none; border-bott

Jan 7, 2019

The Progressive Era Part 1

<h2 class="page-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #38709e; font-family: crimson_text, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 25px; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: top;"> The Progressive Era Part 1</h2> <div class="group-image-wrapper field-group-html-element pull-left" id="slideshow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; float: left !important; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-right: 20px; width: 240px;"> <div class="image border-secondary" style="border-top-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 8px; box-sizing: border-box;"> <div class="flexslider optionset-node-slideshow flexslider-processed" id="flexslider-1" style="-webkit-box-shadow: none; background-color: transparent; border-bottom-left-radius: 4px; border-bottom-right-radius: 4px; border-top-left-radius: 4px; border-top-right-radius: 4px; border: 0px; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; zoom: 1;"> <div class="flex-viewport" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-height: 2000px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; transition: all 1s ease;"> <ul class="slides" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px); transition-duration: 0s; width: 480px; zoom: 1;"> <li style="-webkit-backface-visibility: hidden; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; float: left; width: 240px;"><img alt="Progressive Era cover 750x516 v2_1.jpg" draggable="false" src="https://mises-media.s3.amazonaws.com/styles/slideshow/s3/Progressive%20Era%20cover%20750x516%20v2_1.jpg?itok=NRdXzli4" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; vertical-align: middle; width: 240px;" typeof="foaf:Image" /></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> <span class="tag-label bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600; padding-right: 5px; text-transform: uppercase;">TAGS </span> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/bureaucracy-and-regulation" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Bureaucracy and Regulation</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/cronyism-and-corporatism" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Cronyism and Corporatism</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/us-history" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">U.S. History</a></span></div> <br /> <br /> <section class="group-date-author" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span class="date" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; font-weight: 600; text-transform: uppercase;">12/20/2017 </span><span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/profile/murray-n-rothbard" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; text-decoration: none;">Murray N. Rothbard</a></span></section><br /> <div class="body-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px;"> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> Rothbard’s power-elite historical analysis shows how big business, big unions, and big government conspired to cartelize industries in order to further their own interests. Programs and agencies started in the Progressive Era have a destructive legacy that has carried on for a century. </div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> This audiobook is made available through the generosity of Mr. Tyler Folger. Narrated by Graham Wright.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> <a href="http://mp3.anarchistphilosophies.com/progressiveera1.mp3" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: #38709e; background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; cu

Dec 30, 2018

The Progressive Era Part 2

<h2 class="page-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #38709e; font-family: crimson_text, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 25px; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: top;"> The Progressive Era Part 2</h2> <div class="group-image-wrapper field-group-html-element pull-left" id="slideshow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; float: left !important; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-right: 20px; width: 240px;"> <div class="image border-secondary" style="border-top-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 8px; box-sizing: border-box;"> <div class="flexslider optionset-node-slideshow flexslider-processed" id="flexslider-1" style="-webkit-box-shadow: none; background-color: transparent; border-bottom-left-radius: 4px; border-bottom-right-radius: 4px; border-top-left-radius: 4px; border-top-right-radius: 4px; border: 0px; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; zoom: 1;"> <div class="flex-viewport" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-height: 2000px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; transition: all 1s ease;"> <ul class="slides" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px); transition-duration: 0s; width: 480px; zoom: 1;"> <li style="-webkit-backface-visibility: hidden; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; float: left; width: 240px;"><img alt="Progressive Era cover 750x516 v2_1.jpg" draggable="false" src="https://mises-media.s3.amazonaws.com/styles/slideshow/s3/Progressive%20Era%20cover%20750x516%20v2_1.jpg?itok=NRdXzli4" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; vertical-align: middle; width: 240px;" typeof="foaf:Image" /></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> <span class="tag-label bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600; padding-right: 5px; text-transform: uppercase;">TAGS </span> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/bureaucracy-and-regulation" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Bureaucracy and Regulation</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/cronyism-and-corporatism" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Cronyism and Corporatism</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/us-history" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">U.S. History</a></span></div> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <section class="group-date-author" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span class="date" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; font-weight: 600; text-transform: uppercase;">12/20/2017 </span><span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/profile/murray-n-rothbard" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; text-decoration: none;">Murray N. Rothbard</a></span></section><br /> <div class="body-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px;"> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> Rothbard’s power-elite historical analysis shows how big business, big unions, and big government conspired to cartelize industries in order to further their own interests. Programs and agencies started in the Progressive Era have a destructive legacy that has carried on for a century. </div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> This audiobook is made available through the generosity of Mr. Tyler Folger. Narrated by Graham Wright. </div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> <a href="http://mp3.anarchistphilosophies.com/progressiveera2.mp3" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: #38709e; background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; box-

Dec 24, 2018

The Progressive Era Part 3

<h2 class="page-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #38709e; font-family: crimson_text, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 25px; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: top;"> The Progressive Era Part 3</h2> <div class="group-image-wrapper field-group-html-element pull-left" id="slideshow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; float: left; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-right: 20px; width: 240px;"> <div class="image border-secondary" style="border-top-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 8px; box-sizing: border-box;"> <div class="flexslider optionset-node-slideshow flexslider-processed" id="flexslider-1" style="-webkit-box-shadow: none; background-color: transparent; border-bottom-left-radius: 4px; border-bottom-right-radius: 4px; border-top-left-radius: 4px; border-top-right-radius: 4px; border: 0px; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; zoom: 1;"> <div class="flex-viewport" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-height: 2000px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; transition: all 1s ease;"> <ul class="slides" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px); transition-duration: 0s; width: 480px; zoom: 1;"> <li style="-webkit-backface-visibility: hidden; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; float: left; width: 240px;"><img alt="Progressive Era cover 750x516 v2_1.jpg" draggable="false" src="https://mises-media.s3.amazonaws.com/styles/slideshow/s3/Progressive%20Era%20cover%20750x516%20v2_1.jpg?itok=NRdXzli4" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; vertical-align: middle; width: 240px;" typeof="foaf:Image" /></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> <span class="tag-label bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600; padding-right: 5px; text-transform: uppercase;">TAGS </span> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/bureaucracy-and-regulation" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Bureaucracy and Regulation</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/cronyism-and-corporatism" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Cronyism and Corporatism</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/us-history" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">U.S. History</a></span></div> <br /> <section class="group-date-author" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; font-size: 15px;"><span class="date" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; font-weight: 600; text-transform: uppercase;">12/20/2017 </span><span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/profile/murray-n-rothbard" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; text-decoration: none;">Murray N. Rothbard</a></span></section><br /> <div class="body-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; font-size: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px;"> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> Rothbard’s power-elite historical analysis shows how big business, big unions, and big government conspired to cartelize industries in order to further their own interests. Programs and agencies started in the Progressive Era have a destructive legacy that has carried on for a century. </div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> This audiobook is made available through the generosity of Mr. Tyler Folger. Narrated by Graham Wright.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> <a href="http://mp3.anarchistphilosophies.com/progressiveera3.mp3" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: #38709e; background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 6px 10px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: middle; white-space: nowrap;" target="_blank" title="Foreword_The Progressive Era.mp3" type="audio/mpeg; length=17920291">Download audio file</a></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> <a class="" href="https://mises.org/library/progressive-era-3" style=

Dec 17, 2018

The Theory of Money & Credit Part 1

<br /> <h2 class="page-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #38709e; font-family: crimson_text, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 25px; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: top;"> The Theory of Money & Credit Part 1</h2> <div class="group-image-wrapper field-group-html-element pull-left" id="slideshow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; float: left !important; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-right: 20px; width: 240px;"> <div class="image border-secondary" style="border-top-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 8px; box-sizing: border-box;"> <div class="flexslider optionset-node-slideshow flexslider-processed" id="flexslider-1" style="-webkit-box-shadow: none; background-color: transparent; border-bottom-left-radius: 4px; border-bottom-right-radius: 4px; border-top-left-radius: 4px; border-top-right-radius: 4px; border: 0px; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; zoom: 1;"> <div class="flex-viewport" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-height: 2000px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; transition: all 1s ease;"> <ul class="slides" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px); transition-duration: 0s; width: 480px; zoom: 1;"> <li style="-webkit-backface-visibility: hidden; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; float: left; width: 240px;"><img alt="The Theory of Money and Credit by Ludwig von Mises" draggable="false" src="https://mises-media.s3.amazonaws.com/styles/slideshow/s3/static-page/img/The%20Theory%20of%20Money%20and%20Credit_750x516_20171207.jpg?itok=nFRJhRCQ" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; vertical-align: middle; width: 240px;" title="The Theory of Money and Credit by Ludwig von Mises" typeof="foaf:Image" /></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> <span class="tag-label bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600; padding-right: 5px; text-transform: uppercase;">TAGS</span> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/money-and-banks" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Money and Banks</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/monetary-theory" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Monetary Theory</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/money-and-banking" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Money and Banking</a></span></div> <br /> <br /> <section class="group-date-author" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span class="date" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; font-weight: 600; text-transform: uppercase;">12/11/2017 </span><span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/profile/ludwig-von-mises" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; text-decoration: none;">Ludwig von Mises</a></span></section><br /> <div class="body-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px;"> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> Mises wrote this book for the ages, and it remains the most spirited, thorough, and scientifically rigorous treatise on money to ever appear. It made Mises's reputation across Europe and established him as the most important economist of his age.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> Narrated by Jim Vann. This audiobook is also available <a href="https://soundcloud.com/misesmedia/sets/the-theory-of-money-credit" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #38709e; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">on Soundcloud</a> and <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-theory-of-money-credit/id1333224560?mt=2" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #38

Dec 8, 2018

The Theory of Money & Credit Part 2

<h2 class="page-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #38709e; font-family: crimson_text, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 25px; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: top;"> The Theory of Money & Credit Part 2</h2> <div class="group-image-wrapper field-group-html-element pull-left" id="slideshow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; float: left !important; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-right: 20px; width: 240px;"> <div class="image border-secondary" style="border-top-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 8px; box-sizing: border-box;"> <div class="flexslider optionset-node-slideshow flexslider-processed" id="flexslider-1" style="-webkit-box-shadow: none; background-color: transparent; border-bottom-left-radius: 4px; border-bottom-right-radius: 4px; border-top-left-radius: 4px; border-top-right-radius: 4px; border: 0px; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; zoom: 1;"> <div class="flex-viewport" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-height: 2000px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; transition: all 1s ease;"> <ul class="slides" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px); transition-duration: 0s; width: 480px; zoom: 1;"> <li style="-webkit-backface-visibility: hidden; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; float: left; width: 240px;"><img alt="The Theory of Money and Credit by Ludwig von Mises" draggable="false" src="https://mises-media.s3.amazonaws.com/styles/slideshow/s3/static-page/img/The%20Theory%20of%20Money%20and%20Credit_750x516_20171207.jpg?itok=nFRJhRCQ" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; vertical-align: middle; width: 240px;" title="The Theory of Money and Credit by Ludwig von Mises" typeof="foaf:Image" /></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> <span class="tag-label bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600; padding-right: 5px; text-transform: uppercase;">TAGS</span> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/money-and-banks" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Money and Banks</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/monetary-theory" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Monetary Theory</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/money-and-banking" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Money and Banking</a></span></div> <section class="group-date-author" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span class="date" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; font-weight: 600; text-transform: uppercase;">12/11/2017 </span><span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/profile/ludwig-von-mises" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; text-decoration: none;">Ludwig von Mises</a></span></section><div class="body-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px;"> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> Mises wrote this book for the ages, and it remains the most spirited, thorough, and scientifically rigorous treatise on money to ever appear. It made Mises's reputation across Europe and established him as the most important economist of his age.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> Narrated by Jim Vann. This audiobook is also available <a href="https://soundcloud.com/misesmedia/sets/the-theory-of-money-credit" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #38709e; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">on Soundcloud</a> and <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-theory-of-money-credit/id1333224560?mt=2" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #38709e; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">iTu

Dec 1, 2018

The Mises Reader Unabridged Part 1

<h2 class="page-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #38709e; font-family: crimson_text, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 25px; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: top;"> The Mises Reader Unabridged Part 1</h2> <div class="group-image-wrapper field-group-html-element pull-left" id="slideshow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; float: left !important; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-right: 20px; width: 240px;"> <div class="image border-secondary" style="border-top-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 8px; box-sizing: border-box;"> <div class="flexslider optionset-node-slideshow flexslider-processed" id="flexslider-1" style="-webkit-box-shadow: none; background-color: transparent; border-bottom-left-radius: 4px; border-bottom-right-radius: 4px; border-top-left-radius: 4px; border-top-right-radius: 4px; border: 0px; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; zoom: 1;"> <div class="flex-viewport" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-height: 2000px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; transition: all 1s ease;"> <ul class="slides" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px); transition-duration: 0s; width: 480px; zoom: 1;"> <li style="-webkit-backface-visibility: hidden; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; float: left; width: 240px;"><img alt="The Mises Reader_Shawn Ritenour" draggable="false" src="https://mises-media.s3.amazonaws.com/styles/slideshow/s3/static-page/img/Mises%20Reader_750x516_20180410.jpg?itok=ASoZ5KWa" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; vertical-align: middle; width: 240px;" title="The Mises Reader_Shawn Ritenour" typeof="foaf:Image" /></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> <span class="tag-label bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600; padding-right: 5px; text-transform: uppercase;">TAGS</span>  <span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/austrian-economics-overview" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Austrian Economics Overview</a></span></div> <br /> <br /> <section class="group-date-author" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span class="date" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; font-weight: 600; text-transform: uppercase;">04/10/2018 </span><span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/profile/ludwig-von-mises" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; text-decoration: none;">Ludwig von Mises</a></span></section><br /> <div class="body-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px;"> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Mises Reader</em> is intended to give a taste of the many facets of Mises’s thought in a way that accessibly communicates most of his key contributions to the social sciences. It therefore includes excerpts from his larger and more technically demanding works side-by-side with shorter, more introductory articles and lectures. The finished product is sort of an intelligent person’s guide to the work of Ludwig von Mises. It is especially suitable for those with an interest in Mises, but find jumping right into <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Human Action</em>, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Socialism</em>, or <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Theory of Money and Credit</em> rather daunting. The hope is to give the reader a survey of Mises’s insights in a format that nourishes his intellectual soul, while also whetting the appetite for his larger corpus of work. </div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> Narrated by Millian Quinteros. This audio book is made available through the generosity of Mr. Tyler Folger.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12

Nov 24, 2018

The Mises Reader Unabridged Part 2

<h2 class="page-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #38709e; font-family: crimson_text, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 25px; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: top;"> The Mises Reader Unabridged Part 2</h2> <div class="group-image-wrapper field-group-html-element pull-left" id="slideshow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; float: left; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-right: 20px; width: 240px;"> <div class="image border-secondary" style="border-top-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 8px; box-sizing: border-box;"> <div class="flexslider optionset-node-slideshow flexslider-processed" id="flexslider-1" style="-webkit-box-shadow: none; background-color: transparent; border-bottom-left-radius: 4px; border-bottom-right-radius: 4px; border-top-left-radius: 4px; border-top-right-radius: 4px; border: 0px; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; zoom: 1;"> <div class="flex-viewport" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-height: 2000px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; transition: all 1s ease;"> <ul class="slides" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px); transition-duration: 0s; width: 480px; zoom: 1;"> <li style="-webkit-backface-visibility: hidden; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; float: left; width: 240px;"><img alt="The Mises Reader_Shawn Ritenour" draggable="false" src="https://mises-media.s3.amazonaws.com/styles/slideshow/s3/static-page/img/Mises%20Reader_750x516_20180410.jpg?itok=ASoZ5KWa" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; vertical-align: middle; width: 240px;" title="The Mises Reader_Shawn Ritenour" typeof="foaf:Image" /></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> <span class="tag-label bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600; padding-right: 5px; text-transform: uppercase;">TAGS</span>  <span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/austrian-economics-overview" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Austrian Economics Overview</a></span></div> <br /> <br /> <section class="group-date-author" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; font-size: 15px;"><span class="date" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; font-weight: 600; text-transform: uppercase;">04/10/2018 </span><span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/profile/ludwig-von-mises" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; text-decoration: none;">Ludwig von Mises</a></span></section><br /> <div class="body-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; font-size: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px;"> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Mises Reader</em> is intended to give a taste of the many facets of Mises’s thought in a way that accessibly communicates most of his key contributions to the social sciences. It therefore includes excerpts from his larger and more technically demanding works side-by-side with shorter, more introductory articles and lectures. The finished product is sort of an intelligent person’s guide to the work of Ludwig von Mises. It is especially suitable for those with an interest in Mises, but find jumping right into <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Human Action</em>, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Socialism</em>, or <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Theory of Money and Credit</em> rather daunting. The hope is to give the reader a survey of Mises’s insights in a format that nourishes his intellectual soul, while also whetting the appetite for his larger corpus of work. </div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> Narrated by Millian Quinteros. This audio book is made available through the generosity of Mr. Tyler Folger.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> <br /></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> <a href="http://mp3.anarchistphilosophies.com/misesreaderpart2.mp3" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: #38709e; background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; cursor: poin

Nov 17, 2018

The Case for Gold

<h2 class="page-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #38709e; font-family: crimson_text, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 25px; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: top;"> The Case for Gold</h2> <div class="body-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; font-size: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px;"> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> <div class="group-image-wrapper field-group-html-element pull-left" id="slideshow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; float: left !important; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-right: 20px; width: 240px;"> <div class="image border-secondary" style="border-top-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 8px; box-sizing: border-box;"> <div class="flexslider optionset-node-slideshow flexslider-processed" id="flexslider-1" style="-webkit-box-shadow: none; background-color: transparent; border-bottom-left-radius: 4px; border-bottom-right-radius: 4px; border-top-left-radius: 4px; border-top-right-radius: 4px; border: 0px; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; zoom: 1;"> <div class="flex-viewport" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-height: 2000px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; transition: all 1s ease;"> <ul class="slides" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px); transition-duration: 0s; width: 480px; zoom: 1;"> <li style="-webkit-backface-visibility: hidden; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; float: left; width: 240px;"><img alt="The Case for Gold" draggable="false" src="https://mises-media.s3.amazonaws.com/styles/slideshow/s3/static-page/img/The%20Case%20for%20Gold_Paul_20180103_750x516.png?itok=QfCQLA3e" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; vertical-align: middle; width: 240px;" title="The Case for Gold" typeof="foaf:Image" /></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> <span class="tag-label bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600; padding-right: 5px; text-transform: uppercase;">TAGS</span> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/fed" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">The Fed</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/money-and-banks" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Money and Banks</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/gold-standard" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Gold Standard</a></span></div> <section class="group-date-author" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="date" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; font-weight: 600; text-transform: uppercase;">01/04/2018 </span><span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/profile/ron-paul" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; text-decoration: none;">Ron Paul</a></span></section><div class="body-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; padding-bottom: 0px;"> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Case for Gold</em> covers the history of gold in the United States, explains that its breakdown was caused by governments, and explains the merit of having sound money: prices reflect market realities, government stays in check, and the people retain their freedom. </div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> Narrated by Jim Vann.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> <br /></div> </div> </div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> <a href="http://mp3.anarchistphilosophies.com/thecaseforgold.mp3" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: #38709e; background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inli

Nov 9, 2018

The Skyscraper Curse

<h2 class="page-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #38709e; font-family: crimson_text, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 25px; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: top;"> The Skyscraper Curse</h2> <div class="group-image-wrapper field-group-html-element pull-left" id="slideshow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; float: left !important; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-right: 20px; width: 240px;"> <div class="image border-secondary" style="border-top-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 8px; box-sizing: border-box;"> <div class="flexslider optionset-node-slideshow flexslider-processed" id="flexslider-1" style="-webkit-box-shadow: none; background-color: transparent; border-bottom-left-radius: 4px; border-bottom-right-radius: 4px; border-top-left-radius: 4px; border-top-right-radius: 4px; border: 0px; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; zoom: 1;"> <div class="flex-viewport" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-height: 2000px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; transition: all 1s ease;"> <ul class="slides" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px); transition-duration: 0s; width: 480px; zoom: 1;"> <li style="-webkit-backface-visibility: hidden; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; float: left; width: 240px;"><img alt="The Skyscraper Curse by Mark Thornton" draggable="false" src="https://mises-media.s3.amazonaws.com/styles/slideshow/s3/static-page/img/Skyscraper%20Curse_Thornton_750x516_20180809.png?itok=p3qj66NS" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; vertical-align: middle; width: 240px;" title="The Skyscraper Curse by Mark Thornton" typeof="foaf:Image" /></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> <span class="tag-label bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600; padding-right: 5px; text-transform: uppercase;">TAGS</span> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/booms-and-busts" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Booms and Busts</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/fed" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">The Fed</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/us-economy" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">U.S. Economy</a></span></div> <section class="group-date-author" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span class="date" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; font-weight: 600; text-transform: uppercase;">08/09/2018 </span><span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/profile/mark-thornton" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; text-decoration: none;">Mark Thornton</a></span></section><div class="body-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px;"> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> Mark Thornton's definitive work on booms and busts. His now-infamous Skyscraper Index theory draws the connection between loose monetary policy, artificially low interest rates, and vanity construction projects.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> This audiobook is made available through the generosity of Mr. Tyler Folger. Narrated by Graham Wright.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> <br /></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> <a href="http://mp3.anarchistphilosophies.com/theskyscrapercurse.mp3" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: #38709e; background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-size: 13

Nov 2, 2018

Mises in America

<h2 class="page-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #38709e; font-family: crimson_text, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 25px; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: top;"> Mises in America</h2> <div class="group-image-wrapper field-group-html-element pull-left" id="slideshow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; float: left !important; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-right: 20px; width: 240px;"> <div class="image border-secondary" style="border-top-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 8px; box-sizing: border-box;"> <div class="flexslider optionset-node-slideshow flexslider-processed" id="flexslider-1" style="-webkit-box-shadow: none; background-color: transparent; border-bottom-left-radius: 4px; border-bottom-right-radius: 4px; border-top-left-radius: 4px; border-top-right-radius: 4px; border: 0px; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; zoom: 1;"> <div class="flex-viewport" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-height: 2000px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; transition: all 1s ease;"> <ul class="slides" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px); transition-duration: 0s; width: 480px; zoom: 1;"> <li style="-webkit-backface-visibility: hidden; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; float: left; width: 240px;"><img alt="Mises in America" draggable="false" src="https://mises-media.s3.amazonaws.com/styles/slideshow/s3/static-page/img/Mises%20in%20America_750x516_20180419.jpg?itok=ajZPsj08" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; vertical-align: middle; width: 240px;" title="Mises in America" typeof="foaf:Image" /></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> <span class="tag-label bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600; padding-right: 5px; text-transform: uppercase;">TAGS</span> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/biographies" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Biographies</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/history-austrian-school-economics" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">History of the Austrian School of Economics</a></span></div> <section class="group-date-author" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span class="date" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; font-weight: 600; text-transform: uppercase;">04/20/2018 </span><span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/profile/william-h-peterson" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; text-decoration: none;">William H. Peterson</a></span></section><div class="body-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px;"> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> The great essayist and economist pens a tribute to his colleague and teacher. Dr. Peterson knew Dr. Mises well. Both were professors at New York University. In this monograph, he describes his temperament and personality as well as his scholarly contributions — all in Peterson's legendary style. It is a fascinating portrait and moving tribute to a master.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box;"> Narrated by Jim Vann. Text version is available <a href="https://mises.org/library/mises-america-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #38709e; text-decoration: none;">here</a>.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box;"> <br /></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box;"> <a href="http://mp3.anarchistphilosophies.com/misesinamerica.mp3" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: #38709e; background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-size:

Oct 26, 2018

Science, Technology, and Government

<h2 class="page-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #38709e; font-family: crimson_text, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 25px; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: top;"> Science, Technology, and Government</h2> <div class="group-image-wrapper field-group-html-element pull-left" id="slideshow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; float: left !important; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-right: 20px; width: 240px;"> <div class="image border-secondary" style="border-top-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 8px; box-sizing: border-box;"> <div class="flexslider flexslider-processed" id="flexslider-1" style="-webkit-box-shadow: none; background-color: transparent; border-bottom-left-radius: 4px; border-bottom-right-radius: 4px; border-top-left-radius: 4px; border-top-right-radius: 4px; border: 0px; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; zoom: 1;"> <div class="flex-viewport" style="-webkit-transition: all 1s ease; box-sizing: border-box; max-height: 2000px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; transition: all 1s ease;"> <ul class="slides" style="-webkit-transition: 0s; box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px); transition: 0s; width: 480px; zoom: 1;"> <li style="-webkit-backface-visibility: hidden; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; float: left; width: 240px;"><img draggable="false" src="https://mises.org/sites/default/files/styles/slideshow/public/static-page/img/Science%2C%20Technology%2C%20and%20Government_Rothbard_750x516.jpg?itok=EAgVGs_Y" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; vertical-align: middle; width: 240px;" typeof="foaf:Image" /></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> <span class="tag-label bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600; padding-right: 5px; text-transform: uppercase;">TAGS</span> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/big-government" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; text-decoration: none;">Big Government</a> </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/free-markets" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; text-decoration: none;">Free Markets</a> </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/interventionism" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; text-decoration: none;">Interventionism</a></span></div> <section class="group-date-author" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/profile/murray-n-rothbard" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; text-decoration: none;">Murray N. Rothbard</a></span></section><div class="body-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px;"> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> In this brilliant monograph Rothbard deftly turns the tables on the supporters of big government and their mandate for control of research and development in all areas of the hard sciences.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> Narrated by Millian Quinteros. This audio book is made available through the generosity of Mr. Tyler Folger. Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> <br /></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> <a href="http://mp3.anarchistphilosophies.com/sciencetechnologygovernment.mp3" style="background-color: #38709e; background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 6px 10px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: middle; white-space: nowrap;" title="stg00_Preface.mp3" type="audio/mpeg; length=7215705">Download audio file</a></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box;

Sep 19, 2016

Omnipotent Government Part 1

<h2 class="page-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #38709e; font-family: crimson_text, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 25px; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 0px 16px; position: relative; vertical-align: top;"> Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War</h2> <div class="group-image-wrapper field-group-html-element pull-left" id="slideshow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; float: left !important; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-right: 20px; width: 240px;"> <div class="image border-secondary" style="border-top-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 8px; box-sizing: border-box;"> <div class="flexslider flexslider-processed" id="flexslider-1" style="-webkit-box-shadow: none; background-color: transparent; border-bottom-left-radius: 4px; border-bottom-right-radius: 4px; border-top-left-radius: 4px; border-top-right-radius: 4px; border: 0px; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; zoom: 1;"> <div class="flex-viewport" style="-webkit-transition: all 1s ease; box-sizing: border-box; max-height: 2000px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; transition: all 1s ease;"> <ul class="slides" style="-webkit-transition: 0s; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px); transition: 0s; width: 480px; zoom: 1;"> <li style="-webkit-backface-visibility: hidden; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; float: left; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; width: 240px;"><img alt="Omnipotent Government by Ludwig von Mises" draggable="false" src="https://mises.org/sites/default/files/styles/slideshow/public/static-page/img/Omnipotent%20Government_Mises_750x516_20160803.jpg?itok=gccSFLY9" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; padding: 5px; vertical-align: middle; width: 240px;" title="Omnipotent Government by Ludwig von Mises" typeof="foaf:Image" /></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> <span class="tag-label bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600; padding-right: 5px; text-transform: uppercase;">TAGS</span> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/war-and-foreign-policy" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; text-decoration: none;">War and Foreign Policy</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/world-history" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; text-decoration: none;">World History</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/political-theory" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; text-decoration: none;">Political Theory</a></span></div> <section class="group-date-author" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span class="date" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; font-weight: 600; text-transform: uppercase;">08/03/2016 </span><span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/profile/ludwig-von-mises" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; text-decoration: none;">Ludwig von Mises</a></span></section><div class="body-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px;"> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Omnipotent Government</em> was published in 1944, when the battle against Nazism held the world’s attention. How had this terrible system gained power? Mises considers and rejects several explanations popular at the time he wrote, such as inherent defects in the German national character. Instead, Mises looks to the rise of a malignant ideology, which he terms <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">etatism</em>.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> This audio book is made available through the generosity of Mr. Tyler Folger. Narrated by Millian Quinteros.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> <br /></div> <div style="box-sizing: border

Sep 5, 2016

Omnipotent Government Part 2

<h2 class="page-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #38709e; font-family: crimson_text, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 25px; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 0px 16px; position: relative; vertical-align: top;"> Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War</h2> <div class="group-image-wrapper field-group-html-element pull-left" id="slideshow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; float: left !important; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-right: 20px; width: 240px;"> <div class="image border-secondary" style="border-top-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 8px; box-sizing: border-box;"> <div class="flexslider flexslider-processed" id="flexslider-1" style="-webkit-box-shadow: none; background-color: transparent; border-bottom-left-radius: 4px; border-bottom-right-radius: 4px; border-top-left-radius: 4px; border-top-right-radius: 4px; border: 0px; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; zoom: 1;"> <div class="flex-viewport" style="-webkit-transition: all 1s ease; box-sizing: border-box; max-height: 2000px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; transition: all 1s ease;"> <ul class="slides" style="-webkit-transition: 0s; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px); transition: 0s; width: 480px; zoom: 1;"> <li style="-webkit-backface-visibility: hidden; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; float: left; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; width: 240px;"><img alt="Omnipotent Government by Ludwig von Mises" draggable="false" src="https://mises.org/sites/default/files/styles/slideshow/public/static-page/img/Omnipotent%20Government_Mises_750x516_20160803.jpg?itok=gccSFLY9" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; padding: 5px; vertical-align: middle; width: 240px;" title="Omnipotent Government by Ludwig von Mises" typeof="foaf:Image" /></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> <span class="tag-label bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600; padding-right: 5px; text-transform: uppercase;">TAGS</span> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/war-and-foreign-policy" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; text-decoration: none;">War and Foreign Policy</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/world-history" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; text-decoration: none;">World History</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/political-theory" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; text-decoration: none;">Political Theory</a></span></div> <section class="group-date-author" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span class="date" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; font-weight: 600; text-transform: uppercase;">08/03/2016 </span><span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/profile/ludwig-von-mises" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; text-decoration: none;">Ludwig von Mises</a></span></section><div class="body-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px;"> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Omnipotent Government</em> was published in 1944, when the battle against Nazism held the world’s attention. How had this terrible system gained power? Mises considers and rejects several explanations popular at the time he wrote, such as inherent defects in the German national character. Instead, Mises looks to the rise of a malignant ideology, which he terms <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">etatism</em>.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> This audio book is made available through the generosity of Mr. Tyler Folger. Narrated by Millian Quinteros.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> <br /></div> <div style="box-sizing: border

Aug 29, 2016

Omnipotent Government Part 3

<h2 class="page-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #38709e; font-family: crimson_text, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 25px; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: top;"> Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War</h2> <div class="group-image-wrapper field-group-html-element pull-left" id="slideshow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; float: left !important; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-right: 20px; width: 240px;"> <div class="image border-secondary" style="border-top-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 8px; box-sizing: border-box;"> <div class="flexslider flexslider-processed" id="flexslider-1" style="-webkit-box-shadow: none; background-color: transparent; border-bottom-left-radius: 4px; border-bottom-right-radius: 4px; border-top-left-radius: 4px; border-top-right-radius: 4px; border: 0px; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; zoom: 1;"> <div class="flex-viewport" style="-webkit-transition: all 1s ease; box-sizing: border-box; max-height: 2000px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; transition: all 1s ease;"> <ul class="slides" style="-webkit-transition: 0s; box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px); transition: 0s; width: 480px; zoom: 1;"> <li style="-webkit-backface-visibility: hidden; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; float: left; width: 240px;"><img alt="Omnipotent Government by Ludwig von Mises" draggable="false" src="https://mises.org/sites/default/files/styles/slideshow/public/static-page/img/Omnipotent%20Government_Mises_750x516_20160803.jpg?itok=gccSFLY9" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; vertical-align: middle; width: 240px;" title="Omnipotent Government by Ludwig von Mises" typeof="foaf:Image" /></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> <span class="tag-label bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600; padding-right: 5px; text-transform: uppercase;">TAGS</span> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/war-and-foreign-policy" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; text-decoration: none;">War and Foreign Policy</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/world-history" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; text-decoration: none;">World History</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/political-theory" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; text-decoration: none;">Political Theory</a></span></div> <section class="group-date-author" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span class="date" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; font-weight: 600; text-transform: uppercase;">08/03/2016 </span><span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/profile/ludwig-von-mises" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; text-decoration: none;">Ludwig von Mises</a></span></section><div class="body-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px;"> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Omnipotent Government</em> was published in 1944, when the battle against Nazism held the world’s attention. How had this terrible system gained power? Mises considers and rejects several explanations popular at the time he wrote, such as inherent defects in the German national character. Instead, Mises looks to the rise of a malignant ideology, which he terms <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">etatism</em>.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> This audio book is made available through the generosity of Mr. Tyler Folger. Narrated by Millian Quinteros.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> <br /></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> <span style="background-color: white;"> </span><a href="http://mp3.anarchistphilosophies.com/OmnipotentGovernment3.mp3" style="background-co

Aug 22, 2016

Pearl Harbor: The Seeds and Fruits of Infamy Part 1

<div class="group-image-wrapper field-group-html-element pull-left" id="slideshow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; float: left; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-right: 20px; width: 240px;"> <div class="image border-secondary" style="border-top-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 8px; box-sizing: border-box;"> <div class="flexslider flexslider-processed" id="flexslider-1" style="-webkit-box-shadow: none; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 4px; border-bottom-right-radius: 4px; border-top-left-radius: 4px; border-top-right-radius: 4px; border: 0px; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; zoom: 1;"> <div class="flex-viewport" style="-webkit-transition: all 1s ease; box-sizing: border-box; max-height: 2000px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; transition: all 1s ease;"> <ul class="slides" style="-webkit-transition: 0s; box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px); transition: 0s; width: 480px; zoom: 1;"> <li style="-webkit-backface-visibility: hidden; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; float: left; width: 240px;"><img draggable="false" src="https://mises.org/sites/default/files/styles/slideshow/public/static-page/img/Pearl%20Harbor_Greaves_750x516_20151230.jpg?itok=PmGqZwqf" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; vertical-align: middle; width: 240px;" typeof="foaf:Image" /></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2 class="teaser-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; font-family: crimson_text, georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 23px; line-height: 1.1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"> <a href="https://mises.org/library/pearl-harbor-seeds-and-fruits-infamy-0" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #38709e; text-decoration: none;">Pearl Harbor: The Seeds and Fruits of Infamy</a> Part 1</h2> <div> <br /></div> <div class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> <span class="tag-label bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600; padding-right: 5px; text-transform: uppercase;">TAGS</span> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/us-history" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; text-decoration: none;">U.S. History</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/war-and-foreign-policy" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; text-decoration: none;">War and Foreign Policy</a></span></div> <br /> <section class="group-date-author" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; font-size: 15px;"><span class="date" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; font-weight: 600; text-transform: uppercase;">12/30/2015</span><span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/profile/percy-l-greaves-jr" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; text-decoration: none;">Percy L. Greaves, Jr.</a></span></section><br /> <div class="body-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; font-size: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px;"> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> <i style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 27.7778px;">Pearl Harbor: The Seeds and Fruits of Infamy</i><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 27.7778px;"> by Percy Greaves, Jr. (1906-1984), published for the first time in 2010, blows the top off a 70-year cover-up, reporting for the first time on long-suppressed interviews, documents, and corroborated evidence.</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 27.7778px;">Greaves provides comprehensive coverage of the history of U.S. and Japanese relations, the actions of the Roosevelt administration, the attack and the response on the ground, the investigations and cover-ups that began almost immediately and continue to this day.</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> Narrated by Millian Quinteros. This audio book is made available through the generosity of Mr. Tyler Folger.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> <a href="http://mp3.anarchistphilosophies.com/pearlharbor1.mp3" style="background-color: #38709e; background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-color: rgb(56, 112, 15

Aug 15, 2016

Pearl Harbor: The Seeds and Fruits of Infamy Part 2

<div class="group-image-wrapper field-group-html-element pull-left" id="slideshow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; float: left !important; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-right: 20px; width: 240px;"> <div class="image border-secondary" style="border-top-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 8px; box-sizing: border-box;"> <div class="flexslider flexslider-processed" id="flexslider-1" style="-webkit-box-shadow: none; background-color: transparent; border-bottom-left-radius: 4px; border-bottom-right-radius: 4px; border-top-left-radius: 4px; border-top-right-radius: 4px; border: 0px; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; zoom: 1;"> <div class="flex-viewport" style="-webkit-transition: all 1s ease; box-sizing: border-box; max-height: 2000px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; transition: all 1s ease;"> <ul class="slides" style="-webkit-transition: 0s; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px); transition: 0s; width: 480px; zoom: 1;"> <li style="-webkit-backface-visibility: hidden; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; float: left; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; width: 240px;"><img draggable="false" src="https://mises.org/sites/default/files/styles/slideshow/public/static-page/img/Pearl%20Harbor_Greaves_750x516_20151230.jpg?itok=PmGqZwqf" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; padding: 5px; vertical-align: middle; width: 240px;" typeof="foaf:Image" /></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2 class="teaser-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; font-family: crimson_text, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 23px; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: top;"> <a href="https://mises.org/library/pearl-harbor-seeds-and-fruits-infamy-0" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #38709e; text-decoration: none;">Pearl Harbor: The Seeds and Fruits of Infamy</a> Part 2</h2> <div style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px;"> <br /></div> <div class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> <span class="tag-label bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600; padding-right: 5px; text-transform: uppercase;">TAGS</span> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/us-history" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; text-decoration: none;">U.S. History</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/war-and-foreign-policy" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; text-decoration: none;">War and Foreign Policy</a></span></div> <section class="group-date-author" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span class="date" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; font-weight: 600; text-transform: uppercase;">12/30/2015</span><span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/profile/percy-l-greaves-jr" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; text-decoration: none;">Percy L. Greaves, Jr.</a></span></section><div class="body-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px;"> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> <i style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 27.7778px;">Pearl Harbor: The Seeds and Fruits of Infamy</i><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 27.7778px;"> by Percy Greaves, Jr. (1906-1984), published for the first time in 2010, blows the top off a 70-year cover-up, reporting for the first time on long-suppressed interviews, documents, and corroborated evidence.</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 27.7778px;">Greaves provides comprehensive coverage of the history of U.S. and Japanese relations, the actions of the Roosevelt administration, the attack and the response on the ground, the investigations and cover-ups that began almost immediately and continue to this day.</span>&

Aug 8, 2016

Pearl Harbor: The Seeds and Fruits of Infamy Part 3

<div class="group-image-wrapper field-group-html-element pull-left" id="slideshow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; float: left !important; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-right: 20px; width: 240px;"> <div class="image border-secondary" style="border-top-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 8px; box-sizing: border-box;"> <div class="flexslider flexslider-processed" id="flexslider-1" style="-webkit-box-shadow: none; background-color: transparent; border-bottom-left-radius: 4px; border-bottom-right-radius: 4px; border-top-left-radius: 4px; border-top-right-radius: 4px; border: 0px; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; zoom: 1;"> <div class="flex-viewport" style="-webkit-transition: all 1s ease; box-sizing: border-box; max-height: 2000px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; transition: all 1s ease;"> <ul class="slides" style="-webkit-transition: 0s; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px); transition: 0s; width: 480px; zoom: 1;"> <li style="-webkit-backface-visibility: hidden; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; float: left; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; width: 240px;"><img draggable="false" src="https://mises.org/sites/default/files/styles/slideshow/public/static-page/img/Pearl%20Harbor_Greaves_750x516_20151230.jpg?itok=PmGqZwqf" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; padding: 5px; vertical-align: middle; width: 240px;" typeof="foaf:Image" /></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2 class="teaser-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; font-family: crimson_text, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 23px; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: top;"> <a href="https://mises.org/library/pearl-harbor-seeds-and-fruits-infamy-0" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #38709e; text-decoration: none;">Pearl Harbor: The Seeds and Fruits of Infamy</a> Part 3</h2> <div style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px;"> <br /></div> <div class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> <span class="tag-label bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600; padding-right: 5px; text-transform: uppercase;">TAGS</span> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/us-history" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; text-decoration: none;">U.S. History</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/war-and-foreign-policy" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; text-decoration: none;">War and Foreign Policy</a></span></div> <section class="group-date-author" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span class="date" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; font-weight: 600; text-transform: uppercase;">12/30/2015</span><span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/profile/percy-l-greaves-jr" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; text-decoration: none;">Percy L. Greaves, Jr.</a></span></section><div class="body-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px;"> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> <i style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 27.7778px;">Pearl Harbor: The Seeds and Fruits of Infamy</i><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 27.7778px;"> by Percy Greaves, Jr. (1906-1984), published for the first time in 2010, blows the top off a 70-year cover-up, reporting for the first time on long-suppressed interviews, documents, and corroborated evidence.</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 27.7778px;">Greaves provides comprehensive coverage of the history of U.S. and Japanese relations, the actions of the Roosevelt administration, the attack and the response on the ground, the investigations and cover-ups that began almost immediately and continue to this day.</span>&

Aug 2, 2016

From Aristocracy to Monarchy to Democracy

<div class="group-left col-xs-3 col-xs-3 col-xs-3" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: left; color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; position: relative; width: 144.5px;"> <div class="image img-responsive border-secondary" style="border-top-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 8px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin-top: 5px; max-width: 100%;"> <img alt="From Aristocracy to Monarchy to Democracy by Hans-Hermann Hoppe" height="165" src="https://mises.org/sites/default/files/styles/list_teaser/public/static-page/img/From-Aristocracy-to-Monarchy-to-Democracy_Hoppe_20150217_750x516.jpg?itok=2qV6ePJn" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 124.5px;" title="From Aristocracy to Monarchy to Democracy by Hans-Hermann Hoppe" typeof="foaf:Image" width="240" /></div> <div class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; font-size: 11px; padding-top: 5px;"> <span class="tag-label bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600; padding-right: 5px; text-transform: uppercase;">TAGS</span> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/big-government" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; text-decoration: none;">Big Government</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/world-history" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; text-decoration: none;">World History</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/political-theory" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; text-decoration: none;">Political Theory</a></span></div> </div> <div class="group-right col-xs-9 col-xs-9" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; position: relative; width: 433.5px;"> <h2 class="teaser-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; font-family: crimson_text, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 23px; line-height: 1.1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"> <a href="https://mises.org/library/aristocracy-monarchy-democracy-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #38709e; text-decoration: none;">From Aristocracy to Monarchy to Democracy</a></h2> <div class="group-date-author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> <span class="date" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; font-weight: 600; text-transform: uppercase;">FEBRUARY 17, 2015</span><span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/profile/hans-hermann-hoppe" rel="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; text-decoration: none;">Hans-Hermann Hoppe</a></span></div> Hoppers eye-opening monograph will revolutionize the way you view society and the state...</div> <div class="group-right col-xs-9 col-xs-9" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; position: relative; width: 433.5px;"> <br /></div> <div class="group-right col-xs-9 col-xs-9" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; position: relative; width: 433.5px;"> <a href="http://mp3.anarchistphilosophies.com/fromaristocracytomonarchy.mp3" style="background-color: #38709e; background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 6px 10px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: middle; white-space: nowrap;" title="Aristocracy-Monarchy-Democracy_Hoppe.mp3" type="audio/mpeg; length=30774116">Download audio file</a><br /> <div class="read-more" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-size: 14px; text-transform: uppercase;"> <a class="" href="https://mises.org/library/aristocracy-monarchy-democracy-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; text-decoration: none;">READ MORE</a></div> </div>

Jul 31, 2016

A Libertarian Critique of Intellectual Property

<div class="group-left col-xs-4 col-xs-4 col-xs-4" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: left; color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; position: relative; width: 192.65625px;"> <div class="image img-responsive border-secondary" style="border-top-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 8px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin-top: 5px; max-width: 100%;"> <img alt="A Libertarian Critique of Intellectual Property by Butler Shaffer" height="165" src="https://mises.org/sites/default/files/styles/list_teaser/public/static-page/img/A%20Libertarian%20Critique%20of%20Intellectual%20Property_Shaffer_20141030.jpg?itok=sqcl7o3n" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px; vertical-align: middle; width: 172.65625px;" title="A Libertarian Critique of Intellectual Property by Butler Shaffer" typeof="foaf:Image" width="240" /></div> <div class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; font-size: 11px; padding-top: 5px;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/legal-system" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; text-decoration: none;">Legal System</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/private-property" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; text-decoration: none;">Private Property</a></span></div> </div> <div class="group-right col-xs-8 col-xs-8" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; position: relative; width: 385.328125px;"> <h2 class="teaser-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; font-family: crimson_text, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 23px; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 0px 12.5px; position: relative; vertical-align: top;"> <a href="https://mises.org/library/libertarian-critique-intellectual-property-0" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #38709e; text-decoration: none;">A Libertarian Critique of Intellectual Property</a></h2> <br /> <section class="group-date-author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="date" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; font-weight: 600; text-transform: uppercase;">JUNE 11, 2014 </span><span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/profile/butler-shaffer" rel="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; text-decoration: none;">Butler Shaffer</a></span></span></section><br /> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> 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.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> Narrated by Clay Barnett. Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com).</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> <span style="text-align: center;"><br /></span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> <span style="text-align: center;"> </span><a href="http://mp3.anarchistphilosophies.com/LibertarianCritiqueIP.mp3" style="background-color: #38709e; background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 6px 10px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: middle; white-space: nowrap;" title="A Libertarian Critique of Intellectual Property.mp3" type="audio/mpeg; length=28517068">Download audio file</a></div> <div class="read-more" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-size: 13px; text-transform: uppercase;"> <a href="https://mises.org/library/libertarian-critique-intellectual-property-0" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none;">READ MORE</a></div>

Nov 12, 2015

Repudiating the National Debt

<div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-4139484088183993986" itemprop="description articleBody" style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 570px;"> <div class="group-left col-xs-4 col-xs-4 col-xs-4" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: left; color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; position: relative; width: 147.984375px;"> <div class="image img-responsive border-secondary" style="border-top-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 8px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin-top: 5px; max-width: 100%;"> <img alt="Audio Essay" height="165" src="https://mises.org/sites/default/files/styles/list_teaser/public/static-page/img/Audio%20Essays.jpg?itok=GQHT22ZQ" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px; vertical-align: middle; width: 127.984375px;" title="Audio Essay" typeof="foaf:Image" width="240" /></div> <div class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; font-size: 11px; padding-top: 5px;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/big-government" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; text-decoration: none;">Big Government</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/taxes-and-spending" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; text-decoration: none;">Taxes and Spending</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/us-economy" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; text-decoration: none;">U.S. Economy</a></span></div> </div> <div class="group-right col-xs-8 col-xs-8" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; position: relative; width: 296px;"> <h2 class="teaser-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; font-family: crimson_text, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 23px; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 0px 12.5px; position: relative; vertical-align: top;"> <a href="https://mises.org/library/repudiating-national-debt-0" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #38709e; text-decoration: none;">Repudiating the National Debt</a></h2> <br /> <section class="group-date-author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="date" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; font-weight: 600; text-transform: uppercase;">JULY 19, 2012 </span><span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/profile/murray-n-rothbard" rel="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; text-decoration: none;">Murray N. Rothbard</a></span></span></section>Narrated by Harold Fritsche. Music by Kevin MacLeod.</div> <div class="group-right col-xs-8 col-xs-8" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; position: relative; width: 296px;"> <br /></div> <div class="group-right col-xs-8 col-xs-8" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; position: relative; width: 296px;"> <a href="http://mp3.anarchistphilosophies.com/repudiatingnationaldebt.mp3" style="background-color: #38709e; background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 6px 10px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: middle; white-space: nowrap;" title="Repudiating the National Debt Murray N Rothbard.mp3" type="audio/mpeg; length=13843765">Download audio file</a><br /> <div class="read-more" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-size: 13px; text-transform: uppercase;"> <a href="https://mises.org/library/repudiating-national-debt-0" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; font-size: 13px; text-decor

Nov 12, 2015

The Health Plan's Devilish Principles

<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; position: relative;"> <a href="http://misesaudiobooks.blogspot.com/2015/11/the-health-plans-devilish-principles.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">The Health Plan's Devilish Principles</a></h3> <div class="post-header" style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"> <div class="post-header-line-1"> </div> </div> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1895304642410790720" itemprop="description articleBody" style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 570px;"> <div class="group-left col-xs-4 col-xs-4 col-xs-4" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: left; color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; position: relative; width: 147.984375px;"> <div class="image img-responsive border-secondary" style="border-top-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 8px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin-top: 5px; max-width: 100%;"> <img alt="Audio Essay" height="165" src="https://mises.org/sites/default/files/styles/list_teaser/public/static-page/img/Audio%20Essays.jpg?itok=GQHT22ZQ" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px; vertical-align: middle; width: 127.984375px;" title="Audio Essay" typeof="foaf:Image" width="240" /></div> <div class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; font-size: 11px; padding-top: 5px;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/big-government" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; text-decoration: none;">Big Government</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/health" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; text-decoration: none;">Health</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/interventionism" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; text-decoration: none;">Interventionism</a></span></div> </div> <div class="group-right col-xs-8 col-xs-8" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; position: relative; width: 296px;"> <h2 class="teaser-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; font-family: crimson_text, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 23px; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 0px 12.5px; position: relative; vertical-align: top;"> <a href="https://mises.org/library/health-plans-devilish-principles" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #38709e; text-decoration: none;">The Health Plan's Devilish Principles</a></h2> <br /> <section class="group-date-author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="date" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; font-weight: 600; text-transform: uppercase;">JULY 17, 2012 </span><span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/profile/murray-n-rothbard" rel="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; text-decoration: none;">Murray N. Rothbard</a></span></span></section>Narrated by Harold Fritsche. Music by Kevin MacLeod.</div> <div class="group-right col-xs-8 col-xs-8" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; position: relative; width: 296px;"> <br /></div> <div class="group-right col-xs-8 col-xs-8" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; position: relative; width: 296px;"> <a href="http://mp3.anarchistphilosophies.com/healthplans.mp3" style="background-color: #38709e; background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); bor

Nov 12, 2015

The Truth About Taxes

<div class="group-left col-xs-4 col-xs-4 col-xs-4" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: left; color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; position: relative; width: 147.984375px;"> <div class="image img-responsive border-secondary" style="border-top-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 8px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin-top: 5px; max-width: 100%;"> <img alt="Audio Essay" height="165" src="https://mises.org/sites/default/files/styles/list_teaser/public/static-page/img/Audio%20Essays.jpg?itok=GQHT22ZQ" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px; vertical-align: middle; width: 127.984375px;" title="Audio Essay" typeof="foaf:Image" width="240" /></div> <div class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; font-size: 11px; padding-top: 5px;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/taxes-and-spending" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; text-decoration: none;">Taxes and Spending</a></span></div> </div> <div class="group-right col-xs-8 col-xs-8" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; position: relative; width: 296px;"> <h2 class="teaser-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; font-family: crimson_text, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 23px; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 0px 12.5px; position: relative; vertical-align: top;"> <a href="https://mises.org/library/truth-about-taxes" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #38709e; text-decoration: none;">The Truth About Taxes</a></h2> <br /> <section class="group-date-author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="date" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; font-weight: 600; text-transform: uppercase;">JULY 2, 2012 </span><span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/profile/murray-n-rothbard" rel="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; text-decoration: none;">Murray N. Rothbard</a></span></span></section><br /> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> This essay originally appeared in the <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Review of Austrian Economics</em> 7, No. 2 (1994), pp. 75–90, as "The Consumption Tax: A Critique". <span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 25.0000514984131px;">Narrated by Harold </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.66667;">Fritsche</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 25.0000514984131px;">. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.66667;">Music by Kevin </span>MacLeod<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.66667;">.</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> <br /></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> <a href="http://mp3.anarchistphilosophies.com/truthabouttaxes.mp3" style="background-color: #38709e; background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 6px 10px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: middle; white-space: nowrap;" title="The Truth About Taxes Murray N Rothbard.mp3" type="audio/mpeg; length=19175407">Download audio file</a></div> <div class="read-more" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-size: 13px; text-transform: uppercase;"> <a href="https://mises.org/library/truth-about-taxes" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none;">READ MORE</a></div> </div>

Nov 12, 2015

Seeing the Unseen

<div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-5504942135755796252" itemprop="description articleBody" style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 570px;"> <div class="group-left col-xs-4 col-xs-4 col-xs-4" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: left; color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; position: relative; width: 147.984375px;"> <div class="image img-responsive border-secondary" style="border-top-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 8px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin-top: 5px; max-width: 100%;"> <img alt="Audio Essay" height="165" src="https://mises.org/sites/default/files/styles/list_teaser/public/static-page/img/Audio%20Essays.jpg?itok=GQHT22ZQ" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px; vertical-align: middle; width: 127.984375px;" title="Audio Essay" typeof="foaf:Image" width="240" /></div> <div class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; font-size: 11px; padding-top: 5px;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/free-markets" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; text-decoration: none;">Free Markets</a></span></div> </div> <div class="group-right col-xs-8 col-xs-8" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; position: relative; width: 296px;"> <h2 class="teaser-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; font-family: crimson_text, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 23px; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 0px 12.5px; position: relative; vertical-align: top;"> <a href="https://mises.org/library/seeing-unseen" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #38709e; text-decoration: none;">Seeing the Unseen</a></h2> <br /> <section class="group-date-author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="date" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; font-weight: 600; text-transform: uppercase;">JULY 3, 2012 </span><span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/profile/llewellyn-h-rockwell-jr" rel="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; text-decoration: none;">Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.</a></span></span></section>Narrated by Harold Fritsche. Music by Kevin MacLeod.</div> <div class="group-right col-xs-8 col-xs-8" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; position: relative; width: 296px;"> <br /></div> <div class="group-right col-xs-8 col-xs-8" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; position: relative; width: 296px;"> <a href="http://mp3.anarchistphilosophies.com/seeingtheunseen.mp3" style="background-color: #38709e; background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 6px 10px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: middle; white-space: nowrap;" title="Seeing the Unseen Llewellyn H Rockwell Jr.mp3" type="audio/mpeg; length=5166823">Download audio file</a><br /> <div class="read-more" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-size: 13px; text-transform: uppercase;"> <a href="https://mises.org/library/seeing-unseen" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none;">READ MORE</a></div> </div> </div>

Nov 12, 2015

The Death of Politics

<div class="group-left col-xs-4 col-xs-4 col-xs-4" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: left; color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; position: relative; width: 147.984375px;"> <div class="image img-responsive border-secondary" style="border-top-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 8px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin-top: 5px; max-width: 100%;"> <img alt="Audio Essay" height="165" src="https://mises.org/sites/default/files/styles/list_teaser/public/static-page/img/Audio%20Essays_0.jpg?itok=-812IG_-" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px; vertical-align: middle; width: 127.984375px;" title="Audio Essay" typeof="foaf:Image" width="240" /></div> <div class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; font-size: 11px; padding-top: 5px;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/political-theory" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; text-decoration: none;">Political Theory</a></span></div> </div> <div class="group-right col-xs-8 col-xs-8" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; position: relative; width: 296px;"> <h2 class="teaser-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; font-family: crimson_text, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 23px; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 0px 12.5px; position: relative; vertical-align: top;"> <a href="https://mises.org/library/death-politics-0" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #38709e; text-decoration: none;">The Death of Politics</a></h2> <br /> <section class="group-date-author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="date" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; font-weight: 600; text-transform: uppercase;">MARCH 7, 2012 </span><span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/profile/karl-hess" rel="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; text-decoration: none;">Karl Hess</a></span></span></section>Originally published in Playboy in March 1969, this essay is narrated by Jeff Riggenbach. Music by Kevin MacLeod.</div> <div class="group-right col-xs-8 col-xs-8" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; position: relative; width: 296px;"> <br /></div> <div class="group-right col-xs-8 col-xs-8" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; position: relative; width: 296px;"> </div> <div class="group-right col-xs-8 col-xs-8" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; position: relative; width: 296px;"> <br /></div> <div class="group-right col-xs-8 col-xs-8" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; position: relative; width: 296px;"> <br /></div> <div class="group-right col-xs-8 col-xs-8" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; position: relative; width: 296px;"> <a href="http://mp3.anarchistphilosophies.com/deathofpolitics.mp3" style="background-color: #38709e; background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 6px 10px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: middle; white-space: nowrap;" title="The Death of Politics Karl Hess.mp3" type="audio/mp

Nov 12, 2015

The Candlemakers' Petition

<div class="group-left col-xs-4 col-xs-4 col-xs-4" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: left; color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; position: relative; width: 147.984375px;"> <div class="image img-responsive border-secondary" style="border-top-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 8px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin-top: 5px; max-width: 100%;"> <img alt="Audio Essay" height="165" src="https://mises.org/sites/default/files/styles/list_teaser/public/static-page/img/Audio%20Essays.jpg?itok=GQHT22ZQ" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px; vertical-align: middle; width: 127.984375px;" title="Audio Essay" typeof="foaf:Image" width="240" /></div> <div class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; font-size: 11px; padding-top: 5px;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/free-markets" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; text-decoration: none;">Free Markets</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/media-and-culture" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; text-decoration: none;">Media and Culture</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/interventionism" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; text-decoration: none;">Interventionism</a></span></div> </div> <div class="group-right col-xs-8 col-xs-8" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; position: relative; width: 296px;"> <h2 class="teaser-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; font-family: crimson_text, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 23px; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 0px 12.5px; position: relative; vertical-align: top;"> <a href="https://mises.org/library/candlemakers-petition-0" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #38709e; text-decoration: none;">The Candlemakers' Petition</a></h2> <br /> <section class="group-date-author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="date" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; font-weight: 600; text-transform: uppercase;">NOVEMBER 10, 2009 </span><span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/profile/claude-fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric-bastiat" rel="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; text-decoration: none;">Claude Frédéric Bastiat</a></span></span></section>"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.</div> <div class="group-right col-xs-8 col-xs-8" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; position: relative; width: 296px;"> <br /></div> <div class="group-right col-xs-8 col-xs-8" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; position: relative; width: 296px;"> <br /></div> <div class="group-right col-xs-8 col-xs-8" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; position: relative; width: 296px;"> <br /></div> <div class="group-right col-xs-8 col-xs-8" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; position: relative; width: 296px;"> <br /></div> <div class="group-right col-xs-8 col-xs-8" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; position: relative; width: 296px;"> <a href="http://mp3.

Nov 12, 2015

Dispelling Popular Great Depression Myths

<div class="group-left col-xs-4 col-xs-4 col-xs-4" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: left; color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; position: relative; width: 147.984375px;"> <div class="image img-responsive border-secondary" style="border-top-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 8px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin-top: 5px; max-width: 100%;"> <img alt="Audio Essay" height="165" src="https://mises.org/sites/default/files/styles/list_teaser/public/static-page/img/Audio%20Essays_0.jpg?itok=-812IG_-" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px; vertical-align: middle; width: 127.984375px;" title="Audio Essay" typeof="foaf:Image" width="240" /></div> <div class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; font-size: 11px; padding-top: 5px;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/booms-and-busts" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; text-decoration: none;">Booms and Busts</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/media-and-culture" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; text-decoration: none;">Media and Culture</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/us-history" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; text-decoration: none;">U.S. History</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/austrian-economics-overview" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; text-decoration: none;">Austrian Economics Overview</a></span></div> </div> <div class="group-right col-xs-8 col-xs-8" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; position: relative; width: 296px;"> <h2 class="teaser-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; font-family: crimson_text, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 23px; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 0px 12.5px; position: relative; vertical-align: top;"> <a href="https://mises.org/library/dispelling-popular-great-depression-myths" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #38709e; text-decoration: none;">Dispelling Popular Great Depression Myths</a></h2> <br /> <section class="group-date-author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="date" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; font-weight: 600; text-transform: uppercase;">NOVEMBER 18, 2009 </span><span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/profile/gennady-stolyarov-ii" rel="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; text-decoration: none;">Gennady Stolyarov II</a></span></span></section><br /> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> Stolyarov reviews Robert P. Murphy’s <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great Depression and the New Deal</em> (2009).</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> <br /></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"> <a href="http://mp3.anarchistphilosophies.com/greatdepression.mp3" style="background-color: #38709e; background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 6px 10px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: middle; white-space: nowrap;" title="Dispelling Popular Great Depression Myths Gennady Stolyarov II.mp3" type="audio/mpeg; length=1851398">Download audio file</a></div> <div class="read-more" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-size: 13px; text-transform: uppercase;"> <a href="https://mises.org/library/dispelling-popular-great-depression-myths" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none;">READ MORE</a></div> </div>

Nov 12, 2015

That Which Is Seen, and That Which Is Not Seen

<div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-5326351766542805829" itemprop="description articleBody" style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 570px;"> <div class="group-left col-xs-4 col-xs-4 col-xs-4" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: left; color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; position: relative; width: 147.984375px;"> <div class="image img-responsive border-secondary" style="border-top-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 8px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin-top: 5px; max-width: 100%;"> <img alt="Audio Essay" height="165" src="https://mises.org/sites/default/files/styles/list_teaser/public/static-page/img/Audio%20Essays.jpg?itok=GQHT22ZQ" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px; vertical-align: middle; width: 127.984375px;" title="Audio Essay" typeof="foaf:Image" width="240" /></div> <div class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; font-size: 11px; padding-top: 5px;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/free-markets" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; text-decoration: none;">Free Markets</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/austrian-economics-overview" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; text-decoration: none;">Austrian Economics Overview</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/political-theory" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; text-decoration: none;">Political Theory</a></span></div> </div> <div class="group-right col-xs-8 col-xs-8" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; position: relative; width: 296px;"> <h2 class="teaser-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; font-family: crimson_text, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 23px; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 0px 12.5px; position: relative; vertical-align: top;"> <a href="https://mises.org/library/which-seen-and-which-not-seen-0" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #38709e; text-decoration: none;">That Which Is Seen, and That Which Is Not Seen</a></h2> <br /> <section class="group-date-author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="date" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; font-weight: 600; text-transform: uppercase;">SEPTEMBER 1, 2009 </span><span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/profile/claude-fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric-bastiat" rel="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; text-decoration: none;">Claude Frédéric Bastiat</a></span></span></section>From Chapter I of The Bastiat Collection: Volume I . Pages 1-48 in the text. Read by Josiah Schmidt.</div> <div class="group-right col-xs-8 col-xs-8" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; position: relative; width: 296px;"> <br /></div> <div class="group-right col-xs-8 col-xs-8" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; position: relative; width: 296px;"> <br /></div> <div class="group-right col-xs-8 col-xs-8" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; position: relative; width: 296px;"> <br /></div> <div class="group-right col-xs-8 col-xs-8" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; position: relative; width: 296px;"> <a href="http://mp3.anarchistphilosophies.com/thatwhichisseen.mp3" style="background-color: #38709e; background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-col

Nov 12, 2015

The Cultural and Spiritual Legacy of Fiat Inflation

<h2 class="teaser-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; font-family: crimson_text, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 23px; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 0px 12.5px; position: relative; vertical-align: top;"> <div class="group-left col-xs-4 col-xs-4 col-xs-4" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: left; color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; position: relative; width: 147.984375px;"> <div class="image img-responsive border-secondary" style="border-top-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 8px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin-top: 5px; max-width: 100%;"> <img alt="Audio Essay" height="165" src="https://mises.org/sites/default/files/styles/list_teaser/public/static-page/img/Audio%20Essays.jpg?itok=GQHT22ZQ" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px; vertical-align: middle; width: 127.984375px;" title="Audio Essay" typeof="foaf:Image" width="240" /></div> <div class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; font-size: 11px; padding-top: 5px;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/money-and-banks" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; text-decoration: none;">Money and Banks</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/austrian-economics-overview" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; text-decoration: none;">Austrian Economics Overview</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/money-and-banking" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; text-decoration: none;">Money and Banking</a></span></div> </div> </h2> <h2 class="teaser-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; font-family: crimson_text, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 23px; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 0px 12.5px; position: relative; vertical-align: top;"> <a href="https://mises.org/library/cultural-and-spiritual-legacy-fiat-inflation-0" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #38709e; text-decoration: none;">The Cultural and Spiritual Legacy of Fiat Inflation</a></h2> <h2 class="teaser-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; font-family: crimson_text, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 23px; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 0px 12.5px; position: relative; vertical-align: top;"> <div class="group-right col-xs-8 col-xs-8" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; position: relative; width: 296px;"> <br /> <section class="group-date-author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="date" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; font-weight: 600; text-transform: uppercase;">MAY 7, 2009</span><span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/profile/j%C3%B6rg-guido-h%C3%BClsmann" rel="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; text-decoration: none;">Jörg Guido Hülsmann</a></span></span></section>Chapter 13 in The Ethics of Money Production . From Part 2, "Inflation," pages 175-191. Narrated by Floy Lilley.</div> <div class="group-right col-xs-8 col-xs-8" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; position: relative; width: 296px;"> <br /></div> <div class="group-right col-xs-8 col-xs-8" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; position: relative; width: 296px;"> <a href="http://mp3.anarchistphilosophies.com/theculturalandspiritual.mp3" style="background-color: #38709e; background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-size: 13px; line-height:

Nov 12, 2015

Methodological Individualism

<div class="group-left col-xs-4 col-xs-4 col-xs-4" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: left; color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; position: relative; width: 147.984375px;"> <div class="image img-responsive border-secondary" style="border-top-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 8px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin-top: 5px; max-width: 100%;"> <img alt="Audio Essay" height="165" src="https://mises.org/sites/default/files/styles/list_teaser/public/static-page/img/Audio%20Essays_0.jpg?itok=-812IG_-" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px; vertical-align: middle; width: 127.984375px;" title="Audio Essay" typeof="foaf:Image" width="240" /></div> <div class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; font-size: 11px; padding-top: 5px;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/austrian-economics-overview" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; text-decoration: none;">Austrian Economics Overview</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/philosophy-and-methodology" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; text-decoration: none;">Philosophy and Methodology</a></span></div> </div> <div class="group-right col-xs-8 col-xs-8" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; position: relative; width: 296px;"> <h2 class="teaser-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; font-family: crimson_text, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 23px; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 0px 12.5px; position: relative; vertical-align: top;"> <a href="https://mises.org/library/methodological-individualism-0" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #38709e; text-decoration: none;">Methodological Individualism</a></h2> <br /> <section class="group-date-author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="date" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; font-weight: 600; text-transform: uppercase;">OCTOBER 3, 2009 </span><span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/profile/joseph-schumpeter" rel="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; text-decoration: none;">Joseph Schumpeter</a></span></span></section>Includes a summary by Frank van Dun. Preface by F.A. Hayek. Read by Josiah Schmidt.</div> <div class="group-right col-xs-8 col-xs-8" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; position: relative; width: 296px;"> <br /></div> <div class="group-right col-xs-8 col-xs-8" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; position: relative; width: 296px;"> <a href="http://mp3.anarchistphilosophies.com/methodologicalindividualism.mp3" style="background-color: #38709e; background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 6px 10px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: middle; white-space: nowrap;" title="Methodological Individualism Joseph Schumpeter.mp3" type="audio/mpeg; length=9356204">Download audio file</a><br /> <div class="read-more" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-size: 13px; text-transform: uppercase;"> <a href="https://mises.org/library/methodological-individualism-0" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none;">READ MORE</a></div> </div>

Nov 12, 2015

I, Pencil

<div class="group-left col-xs-4 col-xs-4 col-xs-4" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: left; color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; position: relative; width: 147.984375px;"> <div class="image img-responsive border-secondary" style="border-top-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 8px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin-top: 5px; max-width: 100%;"> <img alt="Audio Essay" height="165" src="https://mises.org/sites/default/files/styles/list_teaser/public/static-page/img/Audio%20Essays_0.jpg?itok=-812IG_-" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px; vertical-align: middle; width: 127.984375px;" title="Audio Essay" typeof="foaf:Image" width="240" /></div> <div class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; font-size: 11px; padding-top: 5px;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/free-markets" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; text-decoration: none;">Free Markets</a></span></div> </div> <div class="group-right col-xs-8 col-xs-8" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; position: relative; width: 296px;"> <h2 class="teaser-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; font-family: crimson_text, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 23px; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 0px 12.5px; position: relative; vertical-align: top;"> <a href="https://mises.org/library/i-pencil-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #38709e; text-decoration: none;">I, Pencil</a></h2> <br /> <section class="group-date-author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="date" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; font-weight: 600; text-transform: uppercase;">APRIL 1, 2009 </span><span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/profile/leonard-e-read" rel="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; text-decoration: none;">Leonard E. Read</a></span></span></section>The audio version of Leonard Read's classic essay. Narrated by Floy Lilley.</div> <div class="group-right col-xs-8 col-xs-8" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; position: relative; width: 296px;"> <br /></div> <div class="group-right col-xs-8 col-xs-8" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; position: relative; width: 296px;"> <a href="http://mp3.anarchistphilosophies.com/ipencil.mp3" style="background-color: #38709e; background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 6px 10px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: middle; white-space: nowrap;" title="I, Pencil Leonard E Read.mp3" type="audio/mpeg; length=3958266">Download audio file</a><br /> <div class="read-more" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-size: 13px; text-transform: uppercase;"> <a href="https://mises.org/library/i-pencil-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none;">READ MORE</a></div> </div>

Nov 12, 2015

Private and Public Services

<div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-2573134850295837680" itemprop="description articleBody" style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 570px;"> <div class="group-left col-xs-4 col-xs-4 col-xs-4" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: left; color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; position: relative; width: 147.984375px;"> <div class="image img-responsive border-secondary" style="border-top-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 8px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin-top: 5px; max-width: 100%;"> <img alt="Audio Essay" height="165" src="https://mises.org/sites/default/files/styles/list_teaser/public/static-page/img/Audio%20Essays.jpg?itok=GQHT22ZQ" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px; vertical-align: middle; width: 127.984375px;" title="Audio Essay" typeof="foaf:Image" width="240" /></div> <div class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; font-size: 11px; padding-top: 5px;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/free-markets" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; text-decoration: none;">Free Markets</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/austrian-economics-overview" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; text-decoration: none;">Austrian Economics Overview</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/political-theory" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; text-decoration: none;">Political Theory</a></span></div> </div> <div class="group-right col-xs-8 col-xs-8" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; position: relative; width: 296px;"> <h2 class="teaser-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; font-family: crimson_text, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 23px; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 0px 12.5px; position: relative; vertical-align: top;"> <a href="https://mises.org/library/private-and-public-services" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #38709e; text-decoration: none;">Private and Public Services</a></h2> <br /> <br /> <section class="group-date-author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="date" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; font-weight: 600; text-transform: uppercase;">APRIL 30, 2009 </span><span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/profile/claude-fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric-bastiat" rel="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; text-decoration: none;">Claude Frédéric Bastiat</a></span></span></section>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.</div> <div class="group-right col-xs-8 col-xs-8" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; position: relative; width: 296px;"> <br /></div> <div class="group-right col-xs-8 col-xs-8" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; position: relative; width: 296px;"> <br /></div> <div class="group-right col-xs-8 col-xs-8" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; position: relative; width: 296px;"> <a href="http://mp3.anarchistphilosophies.com/privateandpublic.mp3" style="background-color: #38709e; background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 6px 10px; text-align: center; text-

Nov 12, 2015

Not Yours to Give

<div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-7535713886110934599" itemprop="description articleBody" style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 570px;"> <div class="group-left col-xs-4 col-xs-4 col-xs-4" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: left; color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; position: relative; width: 147.984375px;"> <div class="image img-responsive border-secondary" style="border-top-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 8px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin-top: 5px; max-width: 100%;"> <img alt="Audio Essay" height="165" src="https://mises.org/sites/default/files/styles/list_teaser/public/static-page/img/Audio%20Essays_0.jpg?itok=-812IG_-" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px; vertical-align: middle; width: 127.984375px;" title="Audio Essay" typeof="foaf:Image" width="240" /></div> <div class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; font-size: 11px; padding-top: 5px;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/legal-system" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; text-decoration: none;">Legal System</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/political-theory" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; text-decoration: none;">Political Theory</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/private-property" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; text-decoration: none;">Private Property</a></span></div> </div> <div class="group-right col-xs-8 col-xs-8" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; position: relative; width: 296px;"> <h2 class="teaser-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; font-family: crimson_text, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 23px; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 0px 12.5px; position: relative; vertical-align: top;"> <a href="https://mises.org/library/not-yours-give" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #38709e; text-decoration: none;">Not Yours to Give</a></h2> <br /> <section class="group-date-author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="date" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; font-weight: 600; text-transform: uppercase;">MAY 7, 2009 </span><span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/profile/david-crockett" rel="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; text-decoration: none;">David Crockett</a></span></span></section>Taken from Free Market Economics: A Basic Reader , compiled by Bettina Bien Greaves (pp. 227-231). Narrated by Floy Lilley.</div> <div class="group-right col-xs-8 col-xs-8" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; position: relative; width: 296px;"> <br /></div> <div class="group-right col-xs-8 col-xs-8" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; position: relative; width: 296px;"> <a href="http://mp3.anarchistphilosophies.com/notyours.mp3" style="background-color: #38709e; background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 6px 10px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: middle; white-space: nowrap;" title="Not Yours to Give David Crockett.mp3" type="audio/mpeg; length=4672866">Download audio file</a><br /> <div class="read-more" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-size: 13px; text-transform: uppercase;"> <a href="https://mises.org/library/not-yours-give" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; font-size: 1

Nov 12, 2015

Middle-of-the-Road Policy Leads to Socialism

<div class="group-left col-xs-4 col-xs-4 col-xs-4" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: left; color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; position: relative; width: 147.984375px;"> <div class="image img-responsive border-secondary" style="border-top-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 8px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin-top: 5px; max-width: 100%;"> <img alt="Audio Essay" height="165" src="https://mises.org/sites/default/files/styles/list_teaser/public/static-page/img/Audio%20Essays.jpg?itok=GQHT22ZQ" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px; vertical-align: middle; width: 127.984375px;" title="Audio Essay" typeof="foaf:Image" width="240" /></div> <div class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; font-size: 11px; padding-top: 5px;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/austrian-economics-overview" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; text-decoration: none;">Austrian Economics Overview</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/political-theory" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; text-decoration: none;">Political Theory</a></span></div> </div> <div class="group-right col-xs-8 col-xs-8" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; position: relative; width: 296px;"> <h2 class="teaser-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; font-family: crimson_text, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 23px; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 0px 12.5px; position: relative; vertical-align: top;"> <a href="https://mises.org/library/middle-road-policy-leads-socialism-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #38709e; text-decoration: none;">Middle-of-the-Road Policy Leads to Socialism</a></h2> <br /> <section class="group-date-author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="date" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; font-weight: 600; text-transform: uppercase;">JUNE 27, 2008 </span><span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/profile/ludwig-von-mises" rel="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; text-decoration: none;">Ludwig von Mises</a></span></span></section>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.</div> <div class="group-right col-xs-8 col-xs-8" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; position: relative; width: 296px;"> <br /></div> <div class="group-right col-xs-8 col-xs-8" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; position: relative; width: 296px;"> <br /></div> <div class="group-right col-xs-8 col-xs-8" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; position: relative; width: 296px;"> <a href="http://mp3.anarchistphilosophies.com/middleoftheroad.mp3" style="background-color: #38709e; background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 6px 10px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: middle; white-space: nowrap;" title="Middle-of-the-Road Policy Leads to Socialism Ludwig von Mises.mp3" type="audio/mpeg; length=7087661">Download audio file</a><br /> <div class="read-more" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-size: 13px; text-transform: uppercase;"> <a href="https://mises.org/library/middle-road-policy-leads-social

Nov 12, 2015

Austrian School Arguments on the Free-Market Origin of Money

<div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-3249907538254348257" itemprop="description articleBody" style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 570px;"> <div class="group-left col-xs-4 col-xs-4 col-xs-4" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: left; color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; position: relative; width: 147.984375px;"> <div class="image img-responsive border-secondary" style="border-top-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 8px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin-top: 5px; max-width: 100%;"> <img alt="Audio Essay" height="165" src="https://mises.org/sites/default/files/styles/list_teaser/public/static-page/img/Audio%20Essays_0.jpg?itok=-812IG_-" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px; vertical-align: middle; width: 127.984375px;" title="Audio Essay" typeof="foaf:Image" width="240" /></div> <div class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; font-size: 11px; padding-top: 5px;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/monetary-theory" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; text-decoration: none;">Monetary Theory</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/money-and-banking" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; text-decoration: none;">Money and Banking</a></span></div> </div> <div class="group-right col-xs-8 col-xs-8" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; position: relative; width: 296px;"> <h2 class="teaser-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; font-family: crimson_text, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 23px; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 0px 12.5px; position: relative; vertical-align: top;"> <a href="https://mises.org/library/austrian-school-arguments-free-market-origin-money" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #38709e; text-decoration: none;">Austrian School Arguments on the Free-Market Origin of Money</a></h2> <br /> <section class="group-date-author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="date" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; font-weight: 600; text-transform: uppercase;">AUGUST 25, 2008 </span><span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/profile/gennady-stolyarov-ii" rel="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; text-decoration: none;">Gennady Stolyarov II</a></span></span></section>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.</div> <div class="group-right col-xs-8 col-xs-8" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; position: relative; width: 296px;"> <br /></div> <div class="group-right col-xs-8 col-xs-8" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; position: relative; width: 296px;"> <br /></div> <div class="group-right col-xs-8 col-xs-8" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; position: relative; width: 296px;"> <br /></div> <div class="group-right col-xs-8 col-xs-8" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; position: relative; width: 296px;"> <br /></div> <div class="group-right col-xs-8 col-xs-8" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; position:

Nov 12, 2015

The Historical Setting of the Austrian School of Economics

<div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-8842427091943326648" itemprop="description articleBody" style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 570px;"> <div class="group-left col-xs-4 col-xs-4 col-xs-4" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: left; color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; position: relative; width: 147.984375px;"> <div class="image img-responsive border-secondary" style="border-top-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 8px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin-top: 5px; max-width: 100%;"> <img alt="Audio Essay" height="165" src="https://mises.org/sites/default/files/styles/list_teaser/public/static-page/img/Audio%20Essays.jpg?itok=GQHT22ZQ" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px; vertical-align: middle; width: 127.984375px;" title="Audio Essay" typeof="foaf:Image" width="240" /></div> <div class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; font-size: 11px; padding-top: 5px;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/austrian-economics-overview" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; text-decoration: none;">Austrian Economics Overview</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/history-austrian-school-economics" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; text-decoration: none;">History of the Austrian School of Economics</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/other-schools-thought" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #788086; text-decoration: none;">Other Schools of Thought</a></span></div> </div> <div class="group-right col-xs-8 col-xs-8" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; position: relative; width: 296px;"> <h2 class="teaser-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; font-family: crimson_text, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 23px; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 0px 12.5px; position: relative; vertical-align: top;"> <a href="https://mises.org/library/historical-setting-austrian-school-economics-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #38709e; text-decoration: none;">The Historical Setting of the Austrian School of Economics</a></h2> <br /> <section class="group-date-author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="date" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; font-weight: 600; text-transform: uppercase;">JUNE 27, 2008 </span><span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/profile/ludwig-von-mises" rel="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; text-decoration: none;">Ludwig von Mises</a></span></span></section>This audio essay is narrated by Gennady Stolyarov, II.</div> <div class="group-right col-xs-8 col-xs-8" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; position: relative; width: 296px;"> <br /></div> <div class="group-right col-xs-8 col-xs-8" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; position: relative; width: 296px;"> <a href="http://mp3.anarchistphilosophies.com/thehistoricalsetting.mp3" style="background-color: #38709e; background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 6px 10px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: middle; white-space: nowrap;" title="The Historical Setting of the Austrian School of Economics Ludwig von Mises.mp3" type="audio/mpeg; length=15372717">Download audio file</a><br /> <div class="read-more" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; fo

Nov 12, 2015