Lecture series · recorded 2011
Economics in One Lesson (Houston 2011)
Economics in One Lesson (Houston 2011) is a free lecture series (3 recordings, 1.4 hours) you can stream or download at freecapitalists.org, with 3 speakers.
A one-day seminar for high school students. Recorded in Houston, Texas, on 21 January 2011. Sponsored by Jeremy S. Davis.
U.S. HistoryBooms and BustsThe FedMoney and Banks
Cover painting: survivors search the wreckage the morning after the great hurricane, Galveston, 9 September 1900. See every painting in the art gallery.
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Ben Bernanke: Loose Talk and Loose Money 2011
Spontaneous emergence in the evolution of money was founded on individual action. Government cannot proclaim something to be money. Money is a commodity which is demanded mainly as a medium of exchange. The Federal Reserve Chairman, Bernanke, calls a fall in purchasing power of the dollar by over 95% stable . Interest rates have been pushed to zero. Continual inflation is deliberate and designed. Bernanke pretends he knows what he is doing. Recorded in Houston, Texas, on 21 January 2011. Sponsored by Jeremy S. Davis.
Booms and BustsThe FedMoney and Banks
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Applying Economics to American History 2011
You must know basic economics in order to understand historic events. Human Action is the basic book. Economic laws determine the way people cooperate by exchanging property rights, by dividing their labor, and by subjectively calculating prices.
Austrian Economics OverviewU.S. History
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Why Should We Care About Economic Theory? 2011
Economics offers the knowledge that there exist impenetrable conditions that pen us in and knowledge of conditions under which the human imagination can create miracles. Markets will make lives abundant as long as government stays out of the way. Price fixing, privilege-granting, taxation, Fed fixing of interest rates and other such interventions are all dream crushers by creating market dislocations. Sound money, private property and laissez-faire ideas create middle classes, wealth and miracles. We owe our life’s debt to economic freedom. Recorded at the Economics in One Lesson Conference in Houston, Texas, on 21 January 2011. Sponsored by Jeremy S. Davis.
Austrian Economics Overview
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Recording dates, summaries and topics for 3 of these 3 lectures come from the Mises Institute's page for Economics in One Lesson (Houston 2011), checked 2026-09-27.
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- Is Economics in One Lesson (Houston 2011) free to listen to?
- Yes. All 3 mirrored recordings stream in the browser or download as audio, at no cost and with no signup.
- How long is Economics in One Lesson (Houston 2011)?
- 3 recordings, 1.4 hours in total.
- Who lectures in Economics in One Lesson (Houston 2011)?
- Doug French, Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr., and Robert Higgs.
- When was Economics in One Lesson (Houston 2011) recorded?
- 2011, per the recording dates recovered for this series.
- Is there a transcript of Economics in One Lesson (Houston 2011)?
- Yes. Every lecture in the series has one, 11,867 words in total, free to read on each lecture's page and searchable in the browser.
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