Mises U 2024

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, July 28 – August 3, 2024.

Welcome and Opening Remarks

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 28, 2024.Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics, and is the essential training ground for economists who are looking beyond the mainstream.

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Axis of Evil: America’s Three Worst Presidents

"The American academic history profession periodically publishes the rankings of the greatest presidents, and Lincoln and FDR are always there at the top. And Woodrow Wilson used to be at the top, or near the top, until they discovered about three or four years ago that he re-segregated the US military."Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 28, 2024. Includes an introduction by Joseph. T. Salerno.Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics, and is the essential training ground for economists who are looking beyond the mainstream.

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The Birth of the Austrian School

"Menger developed the whole system of economics, and he showed that it was based on subjective value and individual choice based on the principle of marginal utility. He was a creative genius." Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 29, 2024.Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics, and is the essential training ground for economists who are looking beyond the mainstream.

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Subjective Value and Market Prices

"Price theory is the cornerstone of the foundation of economic calculation, and economic calculation is the foundation upon which rests our understanding of the market economy."Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 29, 2024.Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics, and is the essential training ground for economists who are looking beyond the mainstream.

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Praxeology

"The word praxeology can be used in two different ways. One is for a science of human action, as developed by Ludwig von Mises and his successors, principally Murray Rothbard. And the other is for the deductive method used in the science of human action."Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 29, 2024.Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics, and is the essential training ground for economists who are looking beyond the mainstream.

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The Division of Labor and Social Order

"Division of labor really is the market economy."Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 29, 2024.Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics, and is the essential training ground for economists who are looking beyond the mainstream.

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Money

Money, what it is, where it came from, and why it is essential for a just, thriving society and economy.Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 29, 2024.Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics, and is the essential training ground for economists who are looking beyond the mainstream.

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Banking

What do banks do? What is the difference between loan banking and deposit banking?Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 29, 2024.Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics, and is the essential training ground for economists who are looking beyond the mainstream.

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Entrepreneurship

The entrepreneur is the driving force of the whole market system.Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 29, 2024.Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics, and is the essential training ground for economists who are looking beyond the mainstream.

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The Theory of Interest

"The implication of incorporating into our theory of price, the valuations that we engage in as human beings with respect to time."Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 30, 2024.Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics, and is the essential training ground for economists who are looking beyond the mainstream.

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Calculation and Socialism

A modern socialist economy is impossible.Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 30, 2024.Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics, and is the essential training ground for economists who are looking beyond the mainstream.

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Austrian Capital Theory

Capital is the sum of the whole complex of goods destined for acquisition, evaluated in money terms.Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 30, 2024.Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics, and is the essential training ground for economists who are looking beyond the mainstream.

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The Austrian Theory of the Business Cycle

Austrian business cycle theory is the defining feature of Austrian economics.Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 30, 2024.Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics, and is the essential training ground for economists who are looking beyond the mainstream.

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Competition and Monopoly

"This is a core topic for Austrian economists, because we have a particular way of thinking about competition and the absence of competition in the form of monopoly that is a little bit different from the way some other economists approach the problem. And this is a perennially important sort of public policy topic."Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 30, 2024.Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics, and is the essential training ground for economists who are looking beyond the mainstream.

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Minimum Wage

The minimum wage is harmful, racist, sexist, and completely unnecessary.Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 30, 2024.Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics, and is the essential training ground for economists who are looking beyond the mainstream.

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Measurement in Economics

Austrian economists understand how we can apply economic laws and concepts to what we see in the real world.Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 30, 2024.Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics, and is the essential training ground for economists who are looking beyond the mainstream.

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Differences between Mises and Rothbard on Ethical Theory

Is ethics objectively true?Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 31, 2024.Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics, and is the essential training ground for economists who are looking beyond the mainstream.

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Free Trade versus Protectionism

What has been the rhetoric and what has been the reality of trade policy? Where do we stand at this point in time? Why don't trade agreements work? Where should we concentrate our efforts in the future if we want to champion this fight?Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 31, 2024.Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics, and is the essential training ground for economists who are looking beyond the mainstream.

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South Africa’s War against Capitalism

Threats to capitalism, arguments raised against capitalism, and the importance of liberty.Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 31, 2024.Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics, and is the essential training ground for economists who are looking beyond the mainstream.

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Economic Prosperity

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 31, 2024.Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics, and is the essential training ground for economists who are looking beyond the mainstream.

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