- Daniel Fernández — Liberty in Europe with the Bitcoin Couple
Daniel Fernández Méndez is a lecturer in economics at Francisco Marroquín University in Guatemala and is Director of UFM Market Trends, an economics/finance newsletter. He is a PhD candidate in economics at King Juan Carlos University, and is a former Mises Institute summer fellow. We will discuss his recent research on the Cyprus crisis.
- Scotch and Scholars - Richard Ebeling
This week's guest is Richard M. Ebeling, on to talk with Mike about his new book Monetary Central Planning and the State. It's currently rocking the #2 spot in the Political Freedom category on Amazon.com.
How deep does the Keynesian infection of the modern economy go?
How can we get to monetary freedom?
Join in, have fun, and find out.
- Dr. Rahim Taghizadegan — Liberty in Europe with the Bitcoin Couple
Dr. Rahim Taghizadegan is a distinguished scholar at the Institut für Wertewirtschaft in Vienna, Austria, which has recently been relaunched as “Scholarium.” We will discuss the Scholarium’s study program based on the Austrian School. Additionally, we will discuss the original Austrian School and the modern Viennese perception, which differs a bit from the US. Finally, Dr. Taghizadegan will highlight his efforts to bring Austrian economics back to Austria.
- Rothbard U Livestream - Day 3 Afternoon
Rothbard U is a multi-day collection of lectures, courses, and engaged discourse about the Austrian school of economics, led by dynamic thinkers such as David Howden, Glenn Fox, Walter Block, Shawn Ritenour, and Pierre Desrochers.
This livestream is exclusive to Liberty.me members. Chat is internal to Liberty.me members only. See below for the schedule of events for today.
Saturday 7/18 Afternoon
13:00-14:00
Austrian business cycle theory, Howden
14:15-15:15
Economic calculation and socialism, Fox
15:30-16:30
Austrian vs. Chicago Schools, Block
17:00-18:00
Dinner and closing ceremony
- Rothbard U Livestream - Day 2 Afternoon
Rothbard U is a multi-day collection of lectures, courses, and engaged discourse about the Austrian school of economics, led by dynamic thinkers such as David Howden, Glenn Fox, Walter Block, Shawn Ritenour, and Pierre Desrochers.
This livestream is exclusive to Liberty.me members. Chat is internal to Liberty.me members only. See below for the schedule of events for today.
Friday 7/17 Evening
13:00-14:00
The Ethics of Liberty, French
14:15-15:45
Capital and Production, Fox
16:00-17:00
Banking, free and 100-percent reserve, Howden
17:00-18:00
Panel Discussion and Q&A, Block, French, Fox, Howden
- Rothbard U Livestream - Day 1 Afternoon
Rothbard U is a multi-day collection of lectures, courses, and engaged discourse about the Austrian school of economics, led by dynamic thinkers such as David Howden, Glenn Fox, Walter Block, Shawn Ritenour, and Pierre Desrochers.
This livestream is exclusive to Liberty.me members. Chat is internal to Liberty.me members only. See below for the schedule of events for today.
Thursday 7/16 Afternoon
13:00-14:00
Subjectivity and price determination, Fox
14:15-15:45
Time Preference and interest rate determination, Howden
16:00-17:00
A historical perspective on the Austrian school, French
17:00-18:00
Panel Discussion and Q&A, Block, French, Fox, Howden
- Jeffrey Tucker – Liberty Classics: Economics of Illusion
Join Jeffrey Tucker for another show about the world's best liberty literature! This week he'll be chatting about Economics of Illusion by L. Albert Hahn.
The beautiful thing about Hahn’s book is how liberating it is. Keynesian economics was refuted before it began? Yes indeed. This one point stands the whole history of ideas of the 20th century on its head. The widely held view, then and now, is that Keynes’s economics were the “new economics”; nothing like this theory had ever been advanced and he was a singular mind in the history of ideas. But Hahn actually shows that he did nothing but regurgitate old fallacies and apply new terminological razzle-dazzle to them.
- Rothbard U Livestream - Day 3 Morning
Rothbard U is a multi-day collection of lectures, courses, and engaged discourse about the Austrian school of economics, led by dynamic thinkers such as David Howden, Glenn Fox, Walter Block, Shawn Ritenour, and Pierre Desrochers.
This livestream is exclusive to Liberty.me members. Chat is internal to Liberty.me members only. See below for the schedule of events for today.
Saturday 7/18 Morning
09:30-10:30
A Stock-taking of Austrian microeconomics, and some critiques of the mainstream, Block
10:45-11:45
Money, French
- Rothbard U Livestream - Day 2 Morning
Rothbard U is a multi-day collection of lectures, courses, and engaged discourse about the Austrian school of economics, led by dynamic thinkers such as David Howden, Glenn Fox, Walter Block, Shawn Ritenour, and Pierre Desrochers.
This livestream is exclusive to Liberty.me members. Chat is internal to Liberty.me members only. See below for the schedule of events for today.
Friday 7/17 Morning
09:30-10:30
Competition and Monopolies, Block
10:45-11:45
Production and the firm, Fox
- Rothbard U Livestream - Day 1 Morning
Rothbard U is a multi-day collection of lectures, courses, and engaged discourse about the Austrian school of economics, led by dynamic thinkers such as David Howden, Glenn Fox, Walter Block, Shawn Ritenour, and Pierre Desrochers.
This livestream is exclusive to Liberty.me members. Chat is internal to Liberty.me members only. See below for the schedule of events for today.
Thursday 7/16 Morning
09:30-10:30
Praxeology and the Method of Austrian Economists, Block
- Jeffrey Tucker – Liberty Classics: The Use of Knowledge in Society
Join Jeffrey Tucker for another exciting installment of his Liberty Classics series! This week, he'll be chatting about F. A. Hayek's The Use of Knowledge in Society.
The Use of Knowledge in Society is an essay that sums up the insights of a lifetime. It is a template for a worldview. It is a source of unlimited amounts of study and reflection. It is an insight that explains vast amounts of the world around us. It is a flash of brilliance, a revelation that millions have missed, a paradigm for understanding the past and future. It is a rebuke to intellectuals from time immemorial and a new way of thinking for true intellectuals of the future. No single essay by Hayek is more important. “The Use of Knowledge in Society” is all that and more.
- New Hampshire Austrian Economics Group - The Depression of 1907
The New Hampshire Austrian Economics Group will be discussing the Depression of 1907, and reviewing several short texts on the episode. The Depression of 1907 is seldom explored in as much detail as the Great Depression, or even smaller recessions such as the Dot Com Bust. But it plays an important role in history: This depression was used as an excuse for the nationalization of bank notes in the US i.e. the creation of the Fed as central bank.
READINGS:
PDF pages 241-244 "A History of Money and Banking in the United States" by Murray Rothbard (Link)
"The Great Depression According to Milton Friedman" by Ivan Pongracic (Link)
"Encyclopedia of American Recessions and Depression" The Panic of 1907 (Link)
- Austrian Economics: Free State Style #1
The Austrian Economics Group will meet again in Portsmouth, NH, on February 10 to discuss the similarities and differences between Austrian economists Ludwig Lachmann and Israel Kirzner in regard to equilibrium. We will read Karen Vaughn's paper "The Problem of Order in Austrian Economics: Kirzner vs. Lachmann" and Chapter 9 of "Wresting with Time" by Currie and Steedman.
All Liberty.me members are invited to join in from their homes during this LIVE event!
- Liberty Classics: Essentials of Economics by Faustino Ballvé
The enduring power of this book is due to the enduring power of economic logic. If it is done well, it applies in all times and places. And this book does economics extremely well. In times when economics is subject to vast political manipulation, when people have abused the science to push political agendas contrary to everything economics stands for, this book stands out as a clear, objective, and rational statement of the core of what economics teaches.
Join us Sunday, December 14th at 8pm EST for Liberty Classics, as Jeffrey Tucker guides you, week by week, through 25 of the most important works in the classical liberal and libertarian tradition, all of which are available free with your subscription to Liberty.me!
- CYCLE: Defending the Undefendable… for a Profit with Walter Block
Walter Block, Author, Economist, and Austrian School Legal Theorist, takes time out of his nearly continuous writing schedule to talk about the non-aggression principle. Defending the black market, prostitutes, pimps, blackmailers, and gypsy cab drivers.
- The Man of the Century: Mises and His Works, Session #9
The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science was Mises’s final work in a career that stretches back to the early 20th century. He urges a completely new direction in economics, away from positivism and planning and toward a humane social science and laissez faire economics. Jeffrey Tucker discusses the erudition of this book, its many surprises, and sums up his 9-session series on the central books in the Misesian literary legacy. Join him Thursday, November 20th at 2:30pm ET!
- The Man of the Century: Mises and His Works, Session #7
If you were going to name the single greatest book in the social sciences from the 20th century, it would be Mises’s Human Action. Jeffrey Tucker discusses the history of how it came to be written and its main themes. Human Action is a book that you can never stop reading. No matter how many times you read it and reference it, there always seems to be more to discover. Join Jeffrey for a discussion of this book and its legacy Thursday, October 30th at 2:30pm ET!
- Sci-Fi Economics with Lucas Engelhardt
Science Fiction has long been a favorite genre for liberty-lovers. But can it teach Economics? Enter "Sci-Fi Economics," a four-part original course from Liberty.me LIVE. Instead of assigned (suggested) readings, we'll have "assigned watchings" from your favorite sci-fi TV shows. Professor Lucas Engelhardt, himself a connoisseur of science fiction, will be your guide.
This week will begin with "Treachery, Faith, and the Great River," Season 7 Episode 6 of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, available free from CBS.com, by subscription through Hulu, Amazon Prime Instant Video, and Netflix, and for digital purchase from Apple TV and Vudu. Prof. Engelhart will use this episode to discuss the role of money and discuss the relationship between praxeology and fiction Monday, October 13th at 9pm EDT, only on Liberty.me LIVE!
Update: Thanks to an epic glitch with the recording, we'll be reprising session #1 October 13th, so if you missed it, head on over!
- The Crisis of 2008 with Steve Horwitz
Was the financial crisis a result of the unfettered free market, or did government intervention play a role in creating the Great Recession? Economist Steve Horwitz discusses the economic crisis of 2008 and the Austrian theory of the business cycle. Join Horwitz Tuesday, August 19th at 8pm EDT!
- Economic Fallacies, Session #1 with Robert Murphy
Forget everything you've heard about capitalism. It often gets a bad rap today, but economist Robert Murphy begs to differ. In this brilliant and concise introduction to free market economics, Murphy dispels some common myths about capitalism.
Join Dr. Murphy for this four-session course following the track of his book, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism, July 28th, August 11th, August 17th, and August 24th at 9:30pm EDT!
- Living Economics with Pete Boettke
Why are certain nations rich and others poor? What increases quality of life and what destroys it? What brings humans out of their natural state of impoverishment? Economics can give us the answers to these questions and more. Join Prof. Peter Boettke of George Mason University to learn about the history and gain a deeper understanding of economics Wednesday, July 23rd at 8pm EDT!
- RU - Austrian vs. Chicago Schools: Walter Block
Liberty.me's exclusive live stream of Rothbard University happens here -- join Walter Block, David Howden, Glenn Fox, Doug French, and Alfred Wirth for three full days of superb instruction in Austrian Economics, July 17th-19th on Liberty.me U!