I got a late start today, but I was able to squeeze in a couple of lectures from two of my favorite speakers, David Gordon and Tom Woods. Enjoy! Lecture 1 – Apriorism and Positivsm in the Social Sciences Gordon begins by noting that Mises believed that economics can contribute to epistemology, that is, the study of how we know. Mises argued that economics uses a different method to arrive at general laws from that which is used in the physical... Read more

Lecture 1 – The Austrian Theory of the Business Cycle by Roger Garrison Lecture 2 – Environmental and Resource Economics by Tim Terrell Lecture 3 – The Opioid Epidemic by Mark Thornton Lecture 4 – Fake Economic News by Walter Block Lecture 5 – Hayek and Keynes: Head to Head by Roger Garrison Lecture 6 – Minimum Wage by Mark Thornton Lecture 1 – The Austrian Theory of the Business Cycle by Roger Garrison Here we go! I’ve seen this lecture... Read more

Today is the beginning of concurrent lectures so I had some options but these are sessions I settled on. I skipped note-taking on a Jeff Herbener lecture about banking since that’s going to overlap with Roger Garrison’s talks later this week on the business cycle and Hayek and Keynes, which I will discuss here. Peter Klein had some fascinating comments on the minimum wage and monopsony (a market situation in which there is only one buyer – usually for labor)... Read more

This is the first full day of Mises U 2017 and it’s reserved for these 7 essential lectures. Recorded versions of these lectures from past Mises events are probably available on YouTube. (note: I was unable to view Peter Klein’s lecture as I work from home and had a customer appointment): Lecture 1 – The Birth of the Austrian School by Joe Salerno Lecture 2 – Subjective Value and Market Prices by Jeff Herbener Lecture 3 – Praxeology: The Method of Economics... Read more

Thanks for joining me for this series of posts on Mises University 2017. If you missed my first post where explain what this is all about, it’s here. I hope you learn something from this – something about economics, history, and political-economy – something about an uncommon, but very old perspective, a way of thinking about human action and social order with which you may disagree, but also may not fully understand. I am admittedly a sympathetic reviewer, but I nonetheless... Read more

When I was an undergrad at Huntington University, the highlight of my summers was the week-long conference-style Mises University program at the Ludwig von Mises Institute down in Auburn, Alabama, right next to the campus of Auburn University. I attended in 2007, 08, and 09, and I traveled down there a fourth time in 2010 for the Rothbard Graduate Seminar (here I am quoted in this 2008 review). The social atmosphere was tremendous and I have very fond memories of my time... Read more