Join the Mises Institute as we welcome more than 130 students from all over the world to our Auburn campus! Mises U 2014 is a full week of Austrian scholarship that can’t be found anywhere else on the planet.
Coming tonight at 8:00 PM EST (7:00 PM Central Time), Tom Woods will give the opening lecture for Mises University. Join us online to see Woods in live streaming video. All live streams can be found here.
Then, join Judge Andrew Napolitano, Tom Woods, Walter Block, Bob Murphy, Robert Higgs, Tom DiLorenzo, and many other scholars throughout the week for numerous lectures on economics, law, history, and philosophy.
Here are just a few highlights from the schedule:
- Tom Woods: “Four Things the State is Not.”
- Walter Block: “The Case for Privatization of Everything.”
- Judge Andrew Napolitano: “The Constitution and the Free Market.”
- Guido Hülsmann: “The Cultural Consequences of Fiat Money.”
The live streams are all free, but if you’d like to participate more actively in Virtual Mises Univesity as a student, you can enroll here for $20.
Click the lecture titles below at the scheduled times to watch the live webcasts on YouTube.
July 20–26, 2014 • Mises Institute
• All times are central daylight time except where noted.
For the full PDF schedule including non-webcast sessions, click here.
Sunday July 20
7:00 p.m. Welcome, Jeff Deist
7:15 p.m. Faculty Introductions, Joseph Salerno
8:00–9:00 p.m. The Role of Austrian Economics in the Liberty Movement. Woods
Monday July 21
9:00–10:00 a.m. The Birth of the Austrian School. Salerno
10:15–11:15 a.m. Subjective Value and Market Prices. Hülsmann
11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Praxeology: The Method of Economics. Gordon
1:30–2:30 p.m. The Division of Labor and Social Order. Herbener
2:45–3:45 p.m. Money. Engelhardt
4:00–5:00 p.m. Austrian Capital Theory. Garrison
6:00 p.m. An Evening with Judge Napolitano
Tuesday July 22
9:00–10:00 a.m. Entrepreneurship. Klein
10:15–11:15 a.m. Calculation and Socialism. Salerno
11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. An Austrian Critique of Mainstream Economics. Block
1:30–2:30 p.m. Monopoly, Competition, and Antitrust. DiLorenzo
2:45–3:45 p.m. The Place of Finance and Financial Markets in a Free Society. Hülsmann
4:00–5:00 p.m. The Economics of Fractional Reserve Banking. Herbener
Wednesday July 23
9:00–10:00 a.m. The Austrian Theory of the Business Cycle. Garrison
10:15-11:15 a.m. Everyday Logic of Economics. Gordon
11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Concurrent Sessions
Contemporary Challenges to Austrian Economics. Murphy
The Time Preference Theory of Interest & Its Critics. Herbener
1:30–2:30 p.m. Hayek and Keynes: Head to Head. Garrison
2:45–3:45 p.m. FDA and Consumer Welfare. Higgs
4:00–5:00 p.m. Concurrent Sessions:
Contrasting Views of the Great Depression. Murphy
Environmental and Resource Economics. Terrell
Thursday July 24
9:00–10:00 a.m. How War Leads to Big Government. Higgs
10:15–11:15 a.m. The Case for Privatization—of Everything. Block
11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. The Robber Barons and the Progressive Era. Woods
1:30–2:30 p.m. The Corrupt Origins of Central Banking in America. DiLorenzo
2:45–3:45 p.m. Concurrent Sessions
Energy Policy. Murphy
Prediction and the Business Cycle. Thornton
4:00–5:00 p.m. Four Things the State is Not. Woods
Friday July 25
9:00–10:00 a.m. Common Objections to Capitalism. Terrell
10:15–11:15 a.m. Hayek and Friedman: Head to Head. Garrison
11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Concurrent Sessions
Gold Standards: True and False. Salerno
Economics of Tariffs and Smuggling. Thornton
1:30–2:30 p.m. Concurrent Sessions
Anti-Market Mythology. DiLorenzo
Economics of Science and Technology. Klein
2:45–3:45 p.m. Concurrent Sessions
Issues in the Economics of Medical Care. Terrell
Errors, Business Cycles, and Government Stimulus. Engelhardt
4:00–4:45 p.m. Faculty Panels
Theory and Method: Engelhardt, Garrison, Gordon, Herbener, Klein, Salerno
Policy and History: Block, DiLorenzo, Murphy, Terrell, Thornton, Woods
Saturday July 26
9:00–10:00 a.m. Concurrent Sessions
Theory and History. Gordon
Applications of Austrian Economics to Business and Management. Klein
10:15–11:15 a.m. Concurrent Sessions
The Cultural Consequences of Fiat Money. Hülsmann
Game Theory. Engelhardt
11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Concurrent Sessions
Political Entrepreneurship & the Economics of Wealth Destruction. DiLorenzo
The Economics of the Drug War. Thornton
1:30–2:30 p.m. Closing Lecture: My Years in the Austro-Liberty Movement. Block
