Lecture series · recorded 2011
Why Austrian Economics Matters (Chicago 2011)
Why Austrian Economics Matters (Chicago 2011) is a free lecture series (4 recordings, 1.9 hours) you can stream or download at freecapitalists.org, with 4 speakers.
A one-day seminar for high school students. Recorded in Chicago, Illinois, on 8 April 2011. Sponsored by Jeremy S. Davis.
Media and Culture
Cover painting: fire hoses turn on job-seekers at Ford's Highland Park gates, Five Dollar Day, January 1914. See every painting in the art gallery.
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The Division of Labor and Finding Your Niche 2011
Society is built upon each person doing what they do best. Developed economies have very specialized skills. This division of labor allows us each to do what we do best. We can create ourselves.
Austrian Economics Overview
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Why Minimum Wage is Keeping You from Getting a Job 2011
A job seeker may not have the skill set that is worth $7/hour minimum wage. The minimum wage law keeps that individual from being employed.
Austrian Economics OverviewInterventionism
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Silver Circle: The Independent Film and Graphic Novel 2011
The Federal Reserve and its unsound fiat money allow us to do things we should not be doing. Silver Circle is an animated, feature-length, independent film created by Pasha Roberts. The plot is about a group of Rebels that take on the Federal Reserve in 2019.
Media and Culture
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Socialism: Utopia and Reality 2011
A defector from the Soviet Union, Yuri Maltsev knows that socialism is not better than communism.Intellectuals love socialism because they imagine themselves holding power. Communism, a utopia created by Marx, was intended to be classless with no money.
Other Schools of Thought
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Doug French, Pasha Roberts, Walter Block, Yuri N. Maltsev.
Recording dates, summaries and topics for 4 of these 4 lectures come from the Mises Institute's page for Why Austrian Economics Matters (Chicago 2011), checked 2026-07-23.
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- Is Why Austrian Economics Matters (Chicago 2011) free to listen to?
- Yes. All 4 mirrored recordings stream in the browser or download as audio, at no cost and with no signup.
- How long is Why Austrian Economics Matters (Chicago 2011)?
- 4 recordings, 1.9 hours in total.
- Who lectures in Why Austrian Economics Matters (Chicago 2011)?
- Doug French, Pasha Roberts, Walter Block, and Yuri N. Maltsev.
- When was Why Austrian Economics Matters (Chicago 2011) recorded?
- 2011, per the recording dates recovered for this series.
- Is there a transcript of Why Austrian Economics Matters (Chicago 2011)?
- Yes. Every lecture in the series has one, 16,048 words in total, free to read on each lecture's page and searchable in the browser.
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