Lecture series · recorded 2007
The 25th Anniversary Celebration
The 25th Anniversary Celebration is a free lecture series (21 recordings, 7.5 hours) you can stream or download at freecapitalists.org, with 19 speakers.
The Mises Institute will gather in New York, with special guests Ron Paul and Judge Andrew Napolitano, to celebrate our 25th anniversary, discuss the legacy of Mises, his students such as Murray Rothbard, and the movement Mises inspired. We will also celebrate the release of the long-awaited and definitive biography of Ludwig von Mises by Jörg Guido Hülsmann. 12–13 October 2007, New York, NY.
Big GovernmentEducationMedia and CultureBiographiesWorld HistoryThe FedMoney and BanksLegal SystemWar and Foreign Policy
Cover painting: Japanese American children with identity tags wait for the removal bus, Hayward, California, May 1942. See every painting in the art gallery.
20 of 21 lectures mirrored; the rest are still syncing.
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Welcome 2007
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Civil Liberties in Wartime 2007
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2007 Schlarbaum Award for Lifetime Defense of Liberty 2007
Presented to Robert Higgs by Gary Schlarbaum at the Mises Institute’s 25th Anniversary Celebration, 12 October 2007, in New York City.
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The Song that Is Irresistible: How the State Leads People to Their Own Destruction 2007
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The Most Illiberal Living Thinkers 2007
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Misesian Economics in Truly Private Schools 2007
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Austrian Economics Then and Now 2007
Delivered at the Mises Institute’s 25th Anniversary Celebration, 13 October 2007, in New York City.
Austrian Economics OverviewPhilosophy and MethodologyBiographies
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The Firm as the Engine of Social Change 2007
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The Mises Institute and the Techno-Revolution 2007
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Changing the World 2007
Introduction by Lew Rockwell. Delivered at the Mises Institute’s 25th Anniversary Celebration, 13 October 2007, in New York City.
Philosophy and MethodologyPolitical TheoryWorld History
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Rothbard and Big Tent Libertarianism 2007
Delivered at the Mises Institute’s 25th Anniversary Celebration, 13 October 2007, in New York City.
Austrian Economics OverviewPhilosophy and MethodologyPolitical TheoryBiographies
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Rothbard's Protest Against Left and Right 2007
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Mises as Radical: Retrospective on Rothbard's Thesis 2007
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Mises as Inspiration 2007
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The State, the Intellectuals, and the Role of Anti-Intellectual-Intellectuals 2007
Delivered at the Mises Institute's 25th Anniversary Celebration, 13 October 2007, in New York City.
Philosophy and MethodologyPolitical TheoryBig Government
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Mises's Liberalism Revisited 2007
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A Personal History of the Mises Institute 2007
Delivered at the Mises Institute's 25th Anniversary Celebration, 13 October 2007, in New York City.
History of the Austrian School of EconomicsBiographies
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Mises Around the World 2007
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The First and Next 25 Years 2007
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Speakers
Andrew Napolitano, David Gordon, David Leo Veksler, Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Jeffrey A. Tucker, Jeffrey M. Herbener, John V. Denson, Joseph T. Salerno, Jörg Guido Hülsmann, Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr., Mark Thornton, Peter G. Klein, Ralph Raico, Robert Higgs, Roderick T. Long, Ron Paul, Thomas E. Woods, Jr., Thomas J. DiLorenzo, Walter Block.
Recording dates, summaries and topics for 20 of these 21 lectures come from the Mises Institute's page for The 25th Anniversary Celebration, checked 2026-09-27.
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- Is The 25th Anniversary Celebration free to listen to?
- Yes. All 20 mirrored recordings stream in the browser or download as audio, at no cost and with no signup.
- How long is The 25th Anniversary Celebration?
- 21 recordings, 7.5 hours in total.
- Who lectures in The 25th Anniversary Celebration?
- Andrew Napolitano, David Gordon, David Leo Veksler, Hans-Hermann Hoppe, and 15 others.
- When was The 25th Anniversary Celebration recorded?
- 2007, per the recording dates recovered for this series.
- Is there a transcript of The 25th Anniversary Celebration?
- Yes. Every lecture in the series has one, 62,487 words in total, free to read on each lecture's page and searchable in the browser.
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