The Austrian School in a nutshell

The greatest resource on the Internet for market anarchists/education junkies is the Mises Institute’s website. Joseph Salerno hadn’t even finished the first day of his five-day, ten-lecture seminar at Auburn University this past week, and the site was already offering free, downloadable MP3 files from it. The entire seminar, The Austrian School of Economics: Revisionist History and Contemporary Theory, is now available.

Salerno, professor of economics at Pace University and editor of The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, discusses the French Liberal School, Menger, Böhm-Bawerk, Mises, Rothbard, monopoly price theory, Keynes and the “new economics” of fascism, the Chicago School’s failings, the gold standard, and everything in between. This seminar is more than two centuries of meaty free market theory and history stuffed into about 15 hours. I’ve only listened to the first two lectures so far, but I can attest it’s terrific.

You can find the free downloads right here.