podcast manifesto: the final chapter

On May 12th, 14 weeks ago today, we announced the "For a New Liberty Podcast" -- an audiobook version of Rothbard's manifesto, as read by the great Jeff Riggenbach. We've done a chapter a week all summer, and as of today, you can download the entire audiobook, gratis, from the Mises Institute.

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Audio is a powerful tool for ideological outreach. And free audio makes the outreach that much easier. Download the 16 files (introduction plus 15 chapters), burn them to disc (MP3CD) and give them out to your friends and relatives, your co-workers, your favorite fence-sitters.

Again: This is the book that made me a Rothbardian. I read the first half online, sitting at my desk until sunrise. I bought the book to read the second half in the woods of West Virginia.

(And how smart of the Institute to make the ebook available for free! Book sales increase from making books like these freely available.)

FaNL made me a Rothbardian, but my interest in Austrian economics came earlier, from an audiobook: Economics in One Lesson (also read by Riggenbach). My original copy cost over fifty bucks. The Mises Institute now sells an MP3 version for half as much. Yes, that's still more than twice as much as the print version, but while I've gotten a couple of friends to read a print copy of For a New Liberty, I was able to get twice as many to listen to Economics in One Lesson.

Now we have both books available in both formats.

This is the libertarian audio revolution. Spread the word.