The political entrepreneur succeeds by using the implicit violence of government to cripple his competitors and harm consumers. The market entrepreneur, on the other hand, makes his fortune by providing consumers with products they need at prices they can afford. This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon. Narrated by
This is the greatest public health fiasco in the history of the world, and the media has distorted it so badly, that much of the general public is celebrating villains and hissing at heroes. And, even — perversely enough — celebrating the destruction of their own lives and their children’s lives. Presented at the Symposium with Ron Paul on
A panel featuring Jeff Deist, Daniel McAdams, and Tom Woods. Presented at the Symposium with Ron Paul on Saturday, 7 November 2020, in Angleton, Texas.
We’ve reached the end of Human Action ! Tom Woods joins the podcast to discuss Part Seven , “ The Place of Economics in Society ,” and it’s a show you don’t want to miss. Woods and host Jeff Deist enjoy an engaging and far-ranging discussion of the book’s place in history, Mises’s frustration with economics co-opting the methods of physical
Includes an introduction by Jeff Deist. Ludwig von Mises and his work remain incredibly prescient and relevant today. The world needs his voice more than ever, and our speakers celebrate Mises as a supremely vital thinker well-suited for today’s challenges. Recorded in Los Angeles, California, on October 26, 2019. [ All lectures from the
[From the 2020 Supporters Summit , presented at the historic Jekyll Island Club Resort on Jekyll Island, Georgia, on October 9, 2020.] Today I’m going to talk to you about what’s been going on in our country for over half a year now, not just in the United States, but around the world. Some of this we all know, but we’ve been getting, let’s say,
Listen to the Audio Mises Wire version of this article. Those of us who get drawn, often against our better judgment, into Internet debates soon discover that the case against the market economy in the popular mind boils down to a few major claims. Here I intend to dissect one of them: under the unhampered market we’d be at the mercy of
[From the 2020 Supporters Summit , presented at the historic Jekyll Island Club Resort on Jekyll Island, Georgia, on October 9, 2020. Read and see the full lecture .] This is the intellectual level of the conversation [around covid-19]: You just want people do die. How do you talk to somebody like that? So, in order to do that, I’m going to
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