This address was originally delivered before the University Club of New York on April 18, 1950. This audio essay is narrated by Gennady Stolyarov, II.
Audio Essays
Narrated version of important essays.
This audio essay is narrated by Gennady Stolyarov, II.
Austrian Economics offers an elegant, logical, and thoroughly causal explanation of how money came to be, again demonstrating the power of the free market to spontaneously organize human activity in meaningful and universally beneficial ways.
The audio version of Leonard Read’s classic essay. Narrated by Floy Lilley.
From Chapter IX of The Bastiat Collection: Volume II: “Harmonies of Political Economy (Book Two)”. Pages 481-505 in the text. Narrated by Brannon King.
Chapter 13 in The Ethics of Money Production. From Part 2, “Inflation,” pages 175-191. Narrated by Floy Lilley.
Taken from Free Market Economics: A Basic Reader, compiled by Bettina Bien Greaves (pp. 227-231). Narrated by Floy Lilley.
From Chapter I of The Bastiat Collection: Volume I. Pages 1-48 in the text. Read by Josiah Schmidt.
Includes a summary by Frank van Dun. Preface by F.A. Hayek. Read by Josiah Schmidt.
“The Candlemakers’ Petition” is a well known satire of protectionism written and published in 1845, as part of Bastiat’s Economic Sophisms. This audio essay is narrated by Gennady Stolyarov, II.
Stolyarov reviews Robert P. Murphy’s The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great Depression and the New Deal (2009).
Originally published in Playboy in March 1969, this essay is narrated by Jeff Riggenbach. Music by Kevin MacLeod.
This essay originally appeared in the Review of Austrian Economics 7, No. 2 (1994), pp. 75–90, as “The Consumption Tax: A Critique”. Narrated by Harold Fritsche . Music by Kevin MacLeod .
Narrated by Harold Fritsche. Music by Kevin MacLeod.
Narrated by Harold Fritsche. Music by Kevin MacLeod.
Butler Shaffer's contribution to libertarian legal theory and an indispensable guide to a vital topic.