Price Controls: Case Studies (video)

The Road to Serfdom

Finally, here is an edition of Road to Serfdom that does justice to its monumental status in the history of liberty. It contains a foreword by the editor of the Hayek Collected Works, Bruce Caldwell. Caldwell has added helpful explanatory notes and citation corrections, among other improvements. For this reason, the publisher decided to call this "the definitive edition." It truly is.

This spell-binding book is a classic in the history of liberal ideas. It was singularly responsible for launching an important debate on the relationship between political and economic freedom. It made the author a world-famous intellectual. It set a new standard for what it means to be a dissident intellectual. It warned of a new form of despotism enacted in the name of liberation. And though it appeared in 1944, it continues to have a remarkable impact. No one can consider himself well-schooled in modern political ideas without having absorbed its lessons.

What F.A. Hayek saw, and what most all his contemporaries missed, was that every step away from the free market and toward government planning represented a compromise of human freedom generally and a step toward a form of dictatorship--and this is true in all times and places. He demonstrated this against every claim that government control was really only a means of increasing social well-being. Hayek said that government planning would make society less liveable, more brutal, more despotic. Socialism in all its forms is contrary to freedom.

Nazism, he wrote, is not different in kind from Communism. Further, he showed that the very forms of government that England and America were supposedly fighting abroad were being enacted at home, if under a different guise. Further steps down this road, he said, can only end in the abolition of effective liberty for everyone.

Capitalism, he wrote, is the only system of economics compatible with human dignity, prosperity, and liberty. To the extent we move away from that system, we empower the worst people in society to manage what they do not understand.

The beauty of this book is not only in its analytics but in its style, which is unrelenting and passionate. Even today, the book remains a source of controversy. Socialists who imagine themselves to be against dictatorship cannot abide his argument, and they never stop attempting to refute it.

Misesians might find themselves disappointed that Hayek did not go far enough, and made too many compromises in the course of his argument. Even so, anyone who loves liberty cannot but feel a sense of gratitude that this book exists and remains an important part of the debate today.

The Mises Institute was honored that Hayek served as a founding member of our board of advisers, and is very pleased to offer this book again to a world that desperately needs to hear its message.

Money, Banking and the Federal Reserve

Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson understood "The Monster". But to most Americans today, Federal Reserve is just a name on the dollar bill. They have no idea of what the central bank does to the economy, or to their own economic lives; of how and why it was founded and operates; or of the sound money and banking that could end the statism, inflation, and business cycles that the Fed generates.

Dedicated to Murray N. Rothbard, steeped in American history and Austrian economics, and featuring Ron Paul, Joseph Salerno, Hans Hoppe, and Lew Rockwell, this extraordinary new film is the clearest, most compelling explanation ever offered of the Fed, and why curbing it must be our first priority.

Alan Greenspan is not, we're told, happy about this 42-minute blockbuster. Watch it, and you'll understand why. This is economics and history as they are meant to be: fascinating, informative, and motivating. This movie could change America.

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The Founding of The Federal Reserve

Recorded in Houston, Texas; October 27, 1984. [1:04:58]

The Founding of The Federal Reserve

Recorded in Houston, Texas; October 27, 1984. [1:04:58]

The Biggest Lies about Recessions and War

Mark Thornton talks about the Biggest Lies about Recessions and War, at the Prosperity, War & Depression seminar.

The Myth of US Government Benevolence

Joseph R. Stromberg discusses the Myth of US Government Benevolence at the Prosperity,  War & Depression seminar.

2. The Christian Middle Ages

2. The Christian Middle Ages Various Artists Economic Thought Before Adam Smith

2. The Christian Middle Ages (continued)

2. The Christian Middle Ages (continued) Various Artists Economic Thought Before Adam Smith

1. The First Philosopher-Economists: the Greeks (continued)

1. The First Philosopher-Economists: the Greeks (continued) Various Artists Economic Thought Before Adam Smith

1. The First Philosopher-Economists: the Greeks

1. The First Philosopher-Economists: the Greeks Various Artists Economic Thought Before Adam Smith

Hayek and His Lamentable Contemporaries

The final lecture in a series of six on the History of Economic Thought. [1:07:46]

Mises and Austrian Economics

The fifth in a series of six lectures on the History of Economic Thought. [56:38]

Menger and Böhm-Bawerk

The fourth in a series of six lectures on the History of Economic Thought. [1:11:37]

The Pre-Austrians

The third in a series of six lectures on the History of Economic Thought. [1:11:55]

Ideology and Theories of History

The first in a series of six lectures on the History of Economic Thought. [1:06:34]

The Emergence of Communism

The second in a series of six lectures on the History of Economic Thought. [1:11:47]

Mercantilism as the Economic Aspect of Absolutism

This audio version of the Mises Daily was read by Jeff Riggenbach. Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995) was dean of the Austrian School. He was an economist, economic historian, and libertarian political philosopher.

Jean Bodin: Apex of Absolutist Thought in France

This audio version of the Mises Daily was read by Jeff Riggenbach. Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995) was dean of the Austrian School. He was an economist, economic historian, and libertarian political philosopher.

The Skeptic as Absolutist: Michel de Montaigne

This audio version of the Mises Daily was read by Jeff Riggenbach. Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995) was dean of the Austrian School. He was an economist, economic historian, and libertarian political philosopher.

Price Controls: Case Studies

Price Controls: Case Studies Joseph T. Salerno Introduction to Austrian Economic Analysis

Price Controls: Case Studies

Price Controls: Case Studies Joseph T. Salerno Introduction to Austrian Economic Analysis

Bank Failures: Then and Now

Bank Failures: Then and Now Various Artists Depression, Monetary Destruction, and the Path to Sound Money

10. The Second Bank of the United States, 1816-1833

From 'A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II'. Read by Matthew Mezinskis.

9. The War of 1812 and Its Aftermath

From 'A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II'. Read by Matthew Mezinskis.

8. The First Bank of the United States, 1791-1811

From 'A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II'. Read by Matthew Mezinskis.

7. The United States: Bimetallic Coinage

From 'A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II'. Read by Matthew Mezinskis.

6. The Bank of North America

From 'A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II'. Read by Matthew Mezinskis.

Giovanni Botero: The First Malthusian

This audio version of the Mises Daily was read by Jeff Riggenbach. Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995) was dean of the Austrian School. He was an economist, economic historian, and libertarian political philosopher.

5. Revolutionary War Finance

From 'A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II'. Read by Matthew Mezinskis.

4. Private Bank Notes

From 'A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II'. Read by Matthew Mezinskis.

3. Government Paper Money

From 'A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II'. Read by Matthew Mezinskis.

1. The History of Money and Banking Before the Twentieth Century

From 'A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II'. Read by Matthew Mezinskis.

Who Was Niccolò Machiavelli?

This audio version of the Mises Daily was read by Jeff Riggenbach. Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995) was dean of the Austrian School. He was an economist, economic historian, and libertarian political philosopher.

Absolutist Thought in Italy

This audio version of the Mises Daily was read by Jeff Riggenbach. Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995) was dean of the Austrian School. He was an economist, economic historian, and libertarian political philosopher.

Religious Radicalism and Absolutist Moderation in 16th-Century France

This audio version of the Mises Daily was read by Jeff Riggenbach. Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995) was dean of the Austrian School. He was an economist, economic historian, and libertarian political philosopher.

Salmasius: High-Water Mark of Early-Modern Interest Theory

This audio version of the Mises Daily was read by Jeff Riggenbach. Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995) was dean of the Austrian School. He was an economist, economic historian, and libertarian political philosopher.

Gold, Peace, and Prosperity

Revised Pocket Edition! The second edition of Gold, Peace, and Prosperity is just 4.25" x .4" x 7 " in size. Truly portable and available at volume discounts. The book has been newly type set and all images updated. This is the perfect handout for education of the gold standard.

The book is a quick read that covers the whole history of monetary destruction, providing information that most people have never heard or thought about. In that sense, it is the perfect conversation starter, and it could inspire more reading and activism for sound money.

We produced this beautiful edition for the broadest distribution - an effort to popularize and universalize the cause of sound money.

Author Ron Paul has been the leading champion of sound money in the Congress. He explains why sound money has meant the gold standard. The monograph is written in the clearest possible terms with the goal of explaining the basics of paper money and its effects of inflation, business cycles, and government growth.

He maps out a plan to bring about a dollar that is as good as gold, one that would be protected against manipulation by government and central bankers. Part of that strategy is the minting of a new gold one but the more far-reaching plan involves a redefinition of the dollar and complete monetary competition. This monograph first appeared in 1981, and it has been in wide distribution ever since. But we've never had an edition this beautiful, this affordable, and this handy.

Second Edition
Foreword by Henry Hazlitt
Preface by Murray Rothbard

Politics and the Power Elite

Presented in Fall 1986 at New York Polytechnic University. Recorded by Hans-Hermann Hoppe.

The Great Cooperation

Presented in Fall 1986 at New York Polytechnic University. Recorded by Hans-Hermann Hoppe.

Woodrow Wilson and World War I

Presented in Fall 1986 at New York Polytechnic University. Recorded by Hans-Hermann Hoppe.

Cartelization of Banking: The Fed

Presented in Fall 1986 at New York Polytechnic University. Recorded by Hans-Hermann Hoppe.

The Progressive Era?

Presented in Fall 1986 at New York Polytechnic University. Recorded by Hans-Hermann Hoppe.

Regulation and Public Utilities

Presented in Fall 1986 at New York Polytechnic University. Recorded by Hans-Hermann Hoppe.

Theodore Roosevelt: Master Reformer

Presented in Fall 1986 at New York Polytechnic University. Recorded by Hans-Hermann Hoppe.

Tariffs, Inflation, Anti-Trust and Cartels

Presented in Fall 1986 at New York Polytechnic University. Recorded by Hans-Hermann Hoppe.

Pietism and the Power Brokers

Presented in Fall 1986 at New York Polytechnic University. Recorded by Hans-Hermann Hoppe.

The Rise and Fall of Monopolies

Presented in Fall 1986 at New York Polytechnic University. Recorded by Hans-Hermann Hoppe.

The Decline of Laissez-Faire

Presented in Fall 1986 at New York Polytechnic University. Recorded by Hans-Hermann Hoppe.

The Railroading of the American People

Presented in Fall 1986 at New York Polytechnic University. Recorded by Hans-Hermann Hoppe.