Free Markets

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 24 July 2014.

Left alone, the market always allocates resources to the highest bidder i.e., to their most highly valued uses and through this process of investment and reinvestment, capital is accumulated and the marginal productivity of labor increases. Thus when the market remains free, wages and living standards are seen to continually increase as well.

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 21 July 2014.

In this interview, Peter Klein and Nicolai Foss discuss new ways to study entrepreneurship.

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Robert Blumen talks with the Mises Institute with a about the Austrian School’s growing influence among investors.

Walter Block’s new book Toward a Libertarian Society covers a wide variety of topics from the death penalty to secession, and from war to macroeconomics.