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Mises U 2023

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Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian school of economics. Recordings of the lectures and seminars presented at the Mises Institute, 23–29 July 2023.

Why listen

Mises U 2023 is a concentrated lecture-series version of the Mises Institute's Austrian economics program, recorded during its 2023 summer event in Auburn, Alabama. Listeners get classroom-style talks, faculty panels, and debates on markets, money, regulation, socialism, entrepreneurship, and political theory. It is best for people who want a structured introduction to Austrian economics rather than a casual news or interview show.

Episodes

Jul 29, 2023Episode 47
Closing Remarks and Awards Ceremony

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 29 July 2023.

Jul 29, 2023Episode 45
How to Be a Better Writer

A panel featuring members of the Mises Institute editorial staff. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 29 July 2023.

Jul 29, 2023Episode 45
How We Win: Advancing Liberty in Your Career

A Mises Institute staff panel featuring Tho Bishop, Felicia Jones, and Jonathan Newman. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 28 July 2023.

Jul 29, 2023Episode 144
The Anatomy of the State

Ryan and Tho take a close look at Rothbard's timeless takedown of state violence, Anatomy of the State, in this special live edition of Radio Rothbard, recorded at Mises University 2023.  Download Anatomy of the State for free at Mises.org/Anatomy New Radio Rothbard mugs are now available at the Mises Store. Get yours at Mises.org/RothMug  PROMO CODE: RothPod for 20% off

Jul 29, 2023Episode 43
Debate: Is the Non-Aggression Principle Enough to Sustain a Free Society?

A debate between Mises Institute Summer Fellows Anthony Cesario and Connor Mortell. With Dr. Jonathan Newman as moderator. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 29, 2023.

Jul 28, 2023Episode 41
Lessons from Mises and Rothbard on Scholarship

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 28 July 2023.

Jul 28, 2023Episode 40
Faculty Panel: Policy and History

Featuring Per Bylund, Lucas Engelhardt, Karl-Friedrich Israel, Tate Fegley, Shawn Ritenour, and Timothy Terrell. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 28, 2023.

Jul 28, 2023Episode 39
Faculty Panel: Theory and Method

Featuring Mark Thornton, David Gordon, Jeffrey Herbener, Peter Klein, Sandy Klein, Jonathan Newman, and Joseph Salerno.  Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 28, 2023.

Jul 28, 2023Episode 38
Economic Prosperity

“A theory of the trade cycle, if it is not to be mere botching, can only be written as the last chapter or the last chapter but one of a treatise dealing with all economic problems.” —Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk Download the slides from this lecture at Mises.org/MU23_PPT_38. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 28 July 2023.

Jul 28, 2023Episode 37
Energy Economics

Some principles for understanding environmental issues. Can government steer energy use decisions to improve outcomes? Download the slides from this lecture at Mises.org/MU23_PPT_37. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 28 July 2023.

Jul 28, 2023Episode 36
Economic Inequality

Inequality is a good thing in the free market. Economic equality is a disastrous government policy that leads to economic ruin for all—including the poor and workers. Download the slides from this lecture at Mises.org/MU23_PPT_36. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 28 July 2023.

Jul 28, 2023Episode 35
Firms, Managers, and Entrepreneurship

Experienced entrepreneurs are Austrians. Download the slides from this lecture at Mises.org/MU23_PPT_35. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 28 July 2023.

Jul 28, 2023Episode 34
Higher Education in Crisis

Ineffective teaching, the enrollment cliff, stifled academic discourse, and government driving up tuition. Download the slides from this lecture at Mises.org/MU23_PPT_34. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 28 July 2023.

Jul 27, 2023Episode 32
The Rise of State-Controlled Medical Care

Dr. Terrell discusses the impacts of price controls, occupational licensure, the FDA, and more. Download the slides from this lecture at Mises.org/MU23_PPT_32. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 27, 2023.

Jul 27, 2023Episode 31
Bureaucrats in the Deep State

Bureaucrats operate with de facto electoral unaccountability. Download lecture slides at Mises.org/MU23_PPT_31. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 27 July 2023.

Jul 27, 2023Episode 30
Game Theory

Game theory done the wrong way eliminates individual choice. Download lecture slides at Mises.org/MU23_PPT_30. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 27 July 2023.

Jul 27, 2023Episode 28
How the Institute was Founded

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 27 July 2023.

Jul 27, 2023Episode 28
Do Big Data and AI Solve the Socialist Calculation Problem?

“Our civilization is inseparably linked with our methods of economic calculation. It would perish if we were to abandon this most precious intellectual tool of acting.” Download lecture slides at Mises.org/MU23_PPT_28. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 27 July 2023.

Jul 27, 2023Episode 26
Central Banking and Inflation

Some problems with inflation measures, inequality and social mobility, and further implications. Download lecture slides at Mises.org/MU23_PPT_27. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 27 July 2023.

Jul 27, 2023Episode 26
An Austrian Analysis of Covid Vaccines

Public health during the pandemic was anti-science and anti-health. Download lecture slides at Mises.org/MU23_PPT_26. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 27 July 2023.

Jul 26, 2023Episode 25
Life in the Fast Lane

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 26 July 2023.

Jul 26, 2023Episode 24
The Ten Men Who Made the West

Download lecture slides at Mises.org/MU23_PPT_24. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 26 July 2023.

Jul 26, 2023Episode 23
The Unseen Costs of Regulation

Few people understand how destructive regulations are. Download lecture slides at Mises.org/MU23_PPT_23. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 26 July 2023.

Jul 26, 2023Episode 22
The Political Economy of Policing

Moving policing outside of the realm of economic calculation contributes to many of the problems we see. Download lecture slides at Mises.org/MU23_PPT_22. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 26 July 2023.

Jul 26, 2023Episode 21
Free Trade vs. Protectionism

Free trade allows for maximizing the total number of mutually beneficial exchangers and promotes economic progress. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 26 July 2023.

Jul 26, 2023Episode 20
Wokeness and Big Tech

Do woke tech firms have monopoly power? Download lecture slides at Mises.org/MU23_PPT_20. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 26 July 2023.

Jul 26, 2023Episode 19
Critique of Neoclassical Economics

The differences between the Austrian school and the mainstream begin at the most fundamental level: method (logic vs. empiricism) and the goal of economic science (understanding vs. prediction). Download lecture slides at Mises.org/MU23_PPT_19.  Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 26 July 2023.

Jul 26, 2023Episode 18
Cronyism in America: How the AMA Cartelized the Medical Profession

In the Progressive Era (1897 to 1929) the American Medical Association made an effort to restrict the supply of doctors. Download lecture slides at Mises.org/MU23_PPT_18.  Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 26 July 2023.

Jul 25, 2023Episode 17
Measurement in Economics

Karl-Friedrich Israel discusses modern econometrics, utility and welfare economics, and econometrics as a set of descriptive tools. Download lecture slides at Mises.org/MU23_PPT_17. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 25 July 2023.

Jul 25, 2023Episode 16
Minimum Wage

There is no clear basis in economics, ethics, efficiency, or fairness for Minimum Wage Laws. The minimum wage works the way it was intended one hundred years ago. Download lecture slides at Mises.org/MU23_PPT_16. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 25 July 2023.

Jul 25, 2023Episode 15
Competition and Monopoly

Government attempts to limit “monopoly power” cannot improve well-being. Download lecture slides at Mises.org/MU23_PPT_15. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 25 July 2023.

Jul 25, 2023Episode 14
The Austrian Theory of the Business Cycle

What is a business cycle? Download lectures slides at Mises.org/MU23_PPT_14. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 25 July 2023.

Jul 25, 2023Episode 13
Austrian Capital Theory

Capital is the starting point of economic calculation. Download lecture slides at Mises.org/MU23_PPT_13. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 25 July 2023.

Jul 25, 2023Episode 12
Calculation and Socialism

In 1920, Ludwig von Mises destroyed the intellectual foundations of the case for socialist central planning. Download lecture slides at Mises.org/MU23_PPT_12. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 25 July 2023.

Jul 25, 2023Episode 11
The Theory of Interest

Time is an irreversible flux. Each moment has a unique place in the sequence of moments of time with respect to action. Download lecture slides at Mises.org/MU23_PPT_11. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 25 July 2023.

Jul 24, 2023Episode 10
The Pentagon and Me: Curiosity vs. the State

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 24 July 2023.

Jul 24, 2023Episode 9
Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship is a general feature of the market economy. Download lectures slides at Mises.org/MU23_PPT_09. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 24 July 2023.

Jul 24, 2023Episode 7
Money

"We would not expect money to be paper, national, or under the control of any entity." Download the slides from this lecture at Mises.org/MU22_PPT_07. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 24 July 2023.

Jul 24, 2023Episode 8
Banking

Loan banking versus deposit banking, how deposit banking affects the money supply, how free banking limits credit expansion, the money multiplier process, and more. Download the slides from this lecture at Mises.org/MU23_PPT_08. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 24 July 2023.

Jul 24, 2023Episode 6
The Division of Labor and Social Order

"The free market and the division of labor does not promote hyper-atomized individuals. It creates social harmony and community." Download the slides from this lecture at Mises.org/MU23_PPT_06. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 24 July 2023.

Jul 24, 2023Episode 5
Praxeology

Praxeology is the method of economics. Download the slides from this lecture at Mises.org/MU23_PPT_05. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 24 July 2023.

Jul 24, 2023Episode 4
Subjective Value and Market Prices

This concept of economic calculation is really the foundation of all economic theory, and price theory is the cornerstone of economic calculation. Download lectures slides at Mises.org/MU23_PPT_04. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 24 July 2022.

Jul 24, 2023Episode 3
The Birth of the Austrian School

Menger discovered much more than the principle of marginal utility—he created an entire system of economics based on subjective value and individual choice. Download lecture slides at Mises.org/MU23_PPT_03. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 24 July 2022.

Jul 24, 2023Episode 2
Reflections on Method: The Proper Study of Man

"I am speaking to you tonight from my emotional home in Austria to you guys in my intellectual home in Auburn." Includes an introduction by Joe Salerno. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 23 July 2023.

Jul 24, 2023Episode 1
Welcome and Opening Remarks

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 23 July 2023.

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