This one's my baby. My brain child. I conceived it. I nurtured it from a pup. I can't take responsibility for Chad's beautiful visual design, or for the genius of Rothbard's teaching, but it's mine anyway. I couldn't be more proud:
Murray Rothbard's writing always displayed the clarity of a first-rate mind, but it is listening to him teach that reveals the humor, the wit, the sheer fun of experiencing his genius.
Murray N. Rothbard: Economics 101 collects onto one MP3CD (advanced CD players and personal computers) ten hours of lectures and speeches from the early 1970s to the early 1990s.
He is speaking in a small classroom setting, explaining economics from the ground up and systematically in the manner of a classic 101 course on the topic -- but with a revolutionary approach. Free-wheeling, generously pepperred with anecdotes, packed with humor (and the man's own infectious laughter), Murray Rothbard's lectures on free-market economics range from the most basic foundation of supply and demand to the complexities of fractional reserve banking and the business cycle.
Along the way, you will learn what money is and what it is not, where interest and profit come from and what role they play in the conservation of natural resources, what determines labor wages, what happens when wages are set artificially through the intervention of the state, and what role labor unions play in the welfare of those inside and outside the union.
The first seven lectures have been organized so that each one builds on the others, culminating in a two-hour explanation of banking. Lecture eight is a whirlwind summary of Misesian economics -- "Mises in One Lesson" -- and the last track of the disc is an inspiring speech, given shortly after the fall of the Soviet Union, on the future of Austrian economics.
After listening to these ten hours of audio, you will know more real economics than most econ majors.
3 Comments:
Neato! Looks like it would make a good holiday gift.
I can't read while riding the bus to and from work, which is a serious bummer. Now that I have an iPod, I've been beginning to download mp3s from the Mises website and loading them into my iPod. All I've gotta do now is figure out how to set the iPod to shuffle without occasionally having Rothbard or Raico or whomever popping up while jammin' to some tunes.
Mazal Tov! May your "baby" be the inspiration for the great unwashed to join the cause for economic literacy and true individual liberty.
Also, I'd like to thank you for the 'sonogram' you sent me half a year ago, which led me to download and enjoy this series.
My favorite bit: Rothbard on seignorage.
Whats yours?
All I've gotta do now is figure out how to set the iPod to shuffle without occasionally having Rothbard or Raico or whomever popping up while jammin' to some tunes.
Just make a smart playlist which includes all other than your podcast or austrian economics genre, and set your iPod to shuffling mode from within the Settings menu, so that when you use that playlist it won't play it in the same order every time.
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