Mises University 2025

[TheTexan]

Calculation and Socialism | Joe Salerno
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKpEeQmZxyI
{Mises Media | 23 July 2025}

A modern socialist economy is impossible.

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 22, 2025.

It's a weak argument to me. Prices are helpful in knowing how much to produce, but they certainly aren't required to produce.

All an economy needs to function at minimum, is food, water, and shelter. Dead citizens from any of those can be used as a substitute for prices on what needs to be produced

Inefficient, but possible.

 

[Occam's Banana]

Race and Discrimination | Wanjiru Njoya
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWDfBhobqOw
{Mises Media | 24 July 2025}

Are markets a friend to minorities? Economist Walter Williams thought so, and Wanjiru Njoya explains why. Her lecture cuts through critical race theory dogma to show how liberty, not legislation, lifts up the marginalized.

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 23, 2025.

 

[Occam's Banana]

Growth versus Prosperity | Shawn Ritenour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbuNiTPNZ9w
{Mises Media | 24 July 2025}

Shawn Ritenour critiques mainstream growth models that emphasize abstract inputs like capital accumulation and technological innovation, arguing instead for a human-centered approach rooted in Austrian economics. He emphasizes the foundational roles of entrepreneurship, time preference, the division of labor, and sound monetary institutions in fostering sustainable economic development.

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 23, 2025.

 

[Occam's Banana]

The Political Economy of Policing | Tate Fegley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_r8X6_Kz6Q
{Mises Media | 24 July 2025}

Tate Fegley examines how the structure of state-run police departments—lacking profit-and-loss mechanisms—leads to systemic inefficiencies, distorted incentives, and unaccountable authority within the public sector.

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 23, 2025.

 

[Occam's Banana]

Economic and Social Consequences of Inflation | Karl-Friedrich Israel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5WuSbBgr6U
{Mises Media | 24 July 2025}

Inflation isn’t just about rising prices. It’s a systematic distortion of economic signals, fueling inequality, eroding social mobility, and undermining real growth.

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 23, 2025.

 

[Occam's Banana]

Growth of the Austrian School | Ritenour and Cwik
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYhjpROCBVE
{Mises Media | 25 July 2025}

Paul Cwik and Shawn Ritenour revisit the often-overlooked "forgotten Austrians" who extended Mengerian economics beyond Vienna. From Wicksteed and Fetter to Strigl and Smart, this session highlights how the early Austrian tradition flourished across borders, until it was eclipsed by Walrasian formalism and Anglo-American Marshallianism.

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 24, 2025.

 

[Occam's Banana]

Game Theory | Lucas M. Engelhardt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0w7piU3kuY
{Mises Media | 30 July 2025}

Lucas Engelhardt challenges conventional applications of game theory by integrating the Austrian perspective on entrepreneurship, showing how creative action can resolve apparent economic impasses like the prisoner's dilemma, the tragedy of the commons, and coordination failures.

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 24, 2025.

 

[Occam's Banana]

Modern Monetary Theory | Newman and Murphy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCqKxVuF8yg
{Mises Media | 30 July 2025}

Bob Murphy and Jonathan Newman take on the rising popularity of Modern Monetary Theory and explain why it stands in direct opposition to Austrian economics. Using clips from the documentary Finding the Money, they critique MMT's core assumptions, from government spending and deficit myths to the origins of money itself. They offer historical evidence, economic logic, and biting rebuttals to MMT’s claims, exposing its flaws and clarifying what’s really at stake in today’s monetary debates.

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 24, 2025.

 

[Occam's Banana]

The Covid Fiasco: Reflections Five Years Later | Tom Woods
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzQnUpAYikQ
{Mises Media | 30 July 2025}

Through a detailed, real-time narrative, Tom Woods examines the inconsistencies, unintended consequences, and bureaucratic incentives behind lockdowns, mask mandates, and public health messaging. Supplemented by empirical data and firsthand accounts, the lecture highlights the human and institutional costs of the crisis response, while underscoring the Mises Institute’s principled opposition to prevailing narratives.

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 24, 2025.

 

[Occam's Banana]

What Henry Hazlitt Knew and What You Should Know About Inflation | Bob Murphy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2WsIW1xUNU
{Mises Media | 31 July 2025}

Bob Murphy examines Henry Hazlitt’s treatment of inflation in Economics in One Lesson, highlighting key insights on monetary expansion, Cantillon effects, and the distinction between nominal and real variables. The lecture offers a clear, Austrian perspective on why inflation distorts rather than enriches, and why its consequences are uneven and often misunderstood.

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 24, 2025.

 

[Occam's Banana]

Bureaucrats in the Deep State | Tate Fegley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fL4HthE7mk
{Mises Media | 31 July 2025}

Tate Fegley analyzes the deep state through the lens of Austrian economics, showing how bureaucratic insulation, lack of economic calculation, and political incentives lead to cronyism and inefficiency. Focusing on defense procurement and media influence, he argues that systemic dysfunction—not bad actors—is the primary driver of deep state behavior.

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 24, 2025.

 

[Occam's Banana]

Money for Nothing: How Higher Ed Became Scammy | Timothy D. Terrell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOEvVRw6M98
{Mises Media | 31 July 2025}

Tim Terrell offers a critical examination of higher education’s economic structure, exploring how federal subsidies, credential inflation, and misaligned incentives have driven rising costs and declining academic rigor. Drawing on Austrian insights, he questions whether universities still serve their educational mission, or have become consumption-driven institutions shaped by bureaucratic interests and distorted signals.

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 24, 2025.

 

[Occam's Banana]

Economics of Interventionism | Lucas Engelhardt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN45N4DMzLw
{Mises Media | 01 August 2025}

Lucas Engelhardt explores the economics of interventionism, tracing Ludwig von Mises’s core argument that state interference in markets is both self-defeating and inherently unstable. Building on insights from Rothbard, Ikeda, and Higgs, Engelhardt examines why interventionism persists despite its failures, and whether we are, in fact, on the road to socialism or stuck in a stable middle ground.

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 25, 2025.

 

[Occam's Banana]

Environmental Conservation | Timothy D. Terrell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnWT3tOyz0c
{Mises Media | 01 August 2025}

Timothy Terrell challenges the mainstream view that markets fail to protect the environment, arguing instead that government intervention often distorts land use, fuels cronyism, and undermines conservation. Drawing on Austrian insights, historical examples, and striking contrasts in land management outcomes, Terrell makes the case for property rights and market-based stewardship as the true path to sustainability.

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 25, 2025.

 

[Occam's Banana]

Economic Inequality | Mark Thornton
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKAUJBmEg-s
{Mises Media | 06 August 2025}

Is economic inequality really the crisis it's made out to be, or is it a misunderstood feature of a healthy, free market society? Mark Thornton dismantles the modern obsession with equality, exposing the statist assumptions behind popular narratives and showing how capital accumulation, entrepreneurship, and individual differences drive prosperity. This is the Austrian answer to egalitarian myths.

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 25, 2025.

 

[Occam's Banana]

Equilibrium Illusions | Jonathan Newman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxbYifk4rMo
{Mises Media | 06 August 2025}

Jonathan Newman challenges mainstream interpretations of equilibrium, showing how Austrian economics replaces static models with a dynamic, step-by-step view of market coordination. Drawing on Mises, Rothbard, and Salerno, he explains how real-world prices emerge from individual choices and imperfect knowledge, not from abstract supply-demand curves or idealized conditions

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 25, 2025.

 

[Occam's Banana]

Faculty Panel: Policy and History
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y8XX0OhTO8
{Mises Media | 06 August 2025}

What's the best historical example of a truly libertarian society—and what’s the biggest obstacle facing liberty today? In this faculty panel, Mises Institute scholars answer tough questions on taxation, constitutional limits, fractional reserve banking, and the controversial issues of assisted suicide and anti-discrimination laws.

Featuring Tom DiLorenzo, Patrick Newman, Bob Murphy, Sandy Klein, David Howden, Timothy Terrell, and Mark Thornton.

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 25, 2025.

 

[Occam's Banana]

Faculty Panel: Theory and Method
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_6b-2qjjHU
{Mises Media | 06 August 2025}

What’s the real foundation of a free and prosperous society—state control or individual liberty? In this faculty panel, leading Austrian economists challenge mainstream economic dogmas, from monopoly myths and interventionism to the paradox of tolerance and the future of money. Audience questions explore of ethics, property rights, methodology, human capital, and the limits of state power. This is the Austrian answer to today’s economic controversies.

Featuring Paul Cwik, Lucas Engelhardt, David Gordon, Jeffrey Herbener, Shawn Ritenour, and Joe Salerno.

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 25, 2025.

 

[Occam's Banana]

Debate: Higher Tariff Taxes Will Create Prosperity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYpYn1LlMmg
{Mises Media | 07 August 2025}

Hosted live at Mises Unviversity 2025, Spencer Morrison, author of Reshore: How Tariffs Will Bring Our Jobs Home, faces off with economist Murray Sabrin over the economic merits and pitfalls of tariffs. Morrison argues that strategic tariffs protect national industries, foster innovation, and maintain economic independence, while Sabrin counters that free trade and economic freedom consistently deliver greater prosperity and peace. Both debaters examine historical evidence, current economic policy, and practical implications of interventionism versus open markets, providing a nuanced discussion on one of economics' enduring controversies.

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 25, 2025.

 

[Occam's Banana]

Why We Need Austrian Economics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6r0vPIs6l6o
{Mises Media | 08 August 2025}

Economist Joseph Salerno, an expert on the Austrian School, money, and methodology, joins us to talk about what makes the Austrian School of economics different.

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