Human Action Conferencehttp://mises.org/podcasts/human-action-conferenceThe Human Action Conference celebrates the 75th anniversary of Ludwig von Mises’s masterpiece. Hosted in Auburn, Alabama, May 16-18, 2024.enMises InstituteSerialnoHuman Action Conference 2024https://cdn.mises.org/images/2024-05/HumanActionConference_2400_20240505.jpghttp://mises.orgMises Institutemisesmedia@gmail.comWelcome and Opening Remarkshttp://mises.org/podcasts/human-action-conference/welcome-and-opening-remarks01Thomas J. DiLorenzoFri, 17 May 2024 09:45:00 -0500139031Tom DiLorenzo welcomes attendees to the 2024 Human Action Conference. Recorded Friday, 17 May 2024, at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.

]]>no1The National Security Complex: Contemporary Statism on Steroidshttp://mises.org/podcasts/human-action-conference/national-security-complex-contemporary-statism-steroids02David StockmanFri, 17 May 2024 10:00:00 -0500139032"The empire can and should be dismantled. 1949 was a crucial mistake—a pivot point that has led to this massive fiscal and political crisis that we have in America today. This is pretty evident to a lot of us, but it was evident to Mises in 1949, and I think we should have followed his advice."

Presented at the 2024 Human Action Conference on Friday, 17 May 2024, at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.

]]>no2Mises’s Epicurean Ethicshttp://mises.org/podcasts/human-action-conference/misess-epicurean-ethics03David GordonFri, 17 May 2024 10:30:00 -0500139033"These days, Stoicism is very fashionable, and popular books on this subject are easy to find. Ludwig von Mises drew from a different tradition of Greek ethics, Epicureanism."

Presented at the 2024 Human Action Conference on Friday, 17 May 2024, at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.

]]>no3Human Action: The Antidote to Progressivismhttp://mises.org/podcasts/human-action-conference/human-action-antidote-progressivism04Joseph T. SalernoFri, 17 May 2024 10:30:00 -0500139035"Human Action is the foundational work of modern Austrian economics, and that is reason enough for reading it. But there is an equally compelling reason for carefully studying Mises's great treatise. For it is the antidote to the real and immediate threat to human liberty and society, represented by the prevailing social philosophy of progressivism."

Presented at the 2024 Human Action Conference on Friday, 17 May 2024, at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.

]]>no4Mises and Rothbard on Credit Contraction during a Downturnhttp://mises.org/podcasts/human-action-conference/mises-and-rothbard-credit-contraction-during-downturn05Patrick NewmanFri, 17 May 2024 13:00:00 -0500139039"Read the great book of Mises. It's the foundation that all of us have tried to develop and defend: the praxeological edifice of economic theory."

Presented at the 2024 Human Action Conference on Friday, 17 May 2024, at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.

]]>no5Entrepreneurship and Property Rightshttp://mises.org/podcasts/human-action-conference/entrepreneurship-and-property-rights06Peter G. KleinFri, 17 May 2024 13:30:00 -0500139040"It is impossible to eliminate the entrepreneur from the picture of a market economy. So, an entrepreneur is central to our understanding of what a market is."

Presented at the 2024 Human Action Conference on Friday, 17 May 2024, at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.

]]>no6The Law of Association: Foundation of Human Societyhttp://mises.org/podcasts/human-action-conference/law-association-foundation-human-society07Paul F. CwikFri, 17 May 2024 14:15:00 -0500139041"We can build a society that's based on peace and cooperation, and we can create a society that flourishes. That's why the law of association is so important."

Presented at the 2024 Human Action Conference on Friday, 17 May 2024, at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.

]]>no7The Book That Made Me an Economisthttp://mises.org/podcasts/human-action-conference/book-made-me-economist08Shawn RitenourFri, 17 May 2024 14:45:00 -0500139042"One of the great lessons of Mises's Human Action is that the institutions of the free society—private property and sound money—make up the environment enabling economic progress and hence economic flourishing."

Presented at the 2024 Human Action Conference on Friday, 17 May 2024, at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.

]]>no8My Discovery of Human Action and Mises as a Philosopherhttp://mises.org/podcasts/human-action-conference/my-discovery-human-action-and-mises-philosopher09Hans-Hermann HoppeFri, 17 May 2024 15:30:00 -0500139043"Sociology is in constant danger of thinking something is a law that is not a law. And economists frequently think that something is a hypothesis for the viable regularity when it is, in fact, a logically necessary truth. And Mises is a person who can set us right in all of this. and help us avoid these confusions that have invaded most of the social sciences."

Presented at the 2024 Human Action Conference on Friday, 17 May 2024, at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.

]]>no9The Challenge of Praxeological Realismhttp://mises.org/podcasts/human-action-conference/challenge-praxeological-realism10Jörg Guido HülsmannSat, 18 May 2024 10:00:00 -0500139053"Like most of us in this room, I have never met Ludwig von Mises in person. I first encountered his ideas some 20 years after his passing. In what follows, I will first describe this encounter. And then I will zoom in on his book, Human Action, and explain why it embodies the research paradigm of praxeological realism and also what the challenges related to it are."

Presented at the 2024 Human Action Conference on Saturday, 18 May 2024, at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.

]]>no10Human Action: Foundations for the Modern Austrian Schoolhttp://mises.org/podcasts/human-action-conference/human-action-foundations-modern-austrian-school11Randall G. HolcombeSat, 18 May 2024 10:30:00 -0500139054"When Human Action first appeared, its distinctive Austrian school approach was already considered a closed chapter in the history of economic thought. So, Human Action and Mises' New York University seminar had a huge impact. It's the reason that we're here today. It's the reason that we have a modern Austrian school."

Presented at the 2024 Human Action Conference on Saturday, 18 May 2024, at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.

]]>no11Reading, Teaching, and Quoting Miseshttp://mises.org/podcasts/human-action-conference/reading-teaching-and-quoting-mises012Mark ThorntonSat, 18 May 2024 11:15:00 -0500139055"Those first 300 pages are rather difficult. And they're difficult for a variety of different reasons for both professional economists as well as just regular people. Regular people wonder, what are all these insane criticisms that Mises is spending so much time addressing? And the professional economist wants to know, why doesn't he get on to regular economics? I'm going to talk about that a little differently here today."

Presented at the 2024 Human Action Conference on Saturday, 18 May 2024, at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.

]]>no12Dualism and Calculation: What Mises Taught Me about Economics and Capitalismhttp://mises.org/podcasts/human-action-conference/dualism-and-calculation-what-mises-taught-me-about-economics-and-capitalism013Robert P. MurphySat, 18 May 2024 13:00:00 -0500139056"I've read Human Action cover to cover at least seven times, I think, and every time I come back to it, I'm just more blown away by how smart Mises is."

Presented at the 2024 Human Action Conference on Saturday, 18 May 2024, at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.

]]>no13Human Action, the Way Forwardhttp://mises.org/podcasts/human-action-conference/human-action-way-forward013Jeffrey M. HerbenerSat, 18 May 2024 13:30:00 -0500139057"Mainstream modeling in macroeconomics has not been a way forward."

Presented at the 2024 Human Action Conference on Saturday, 18 May 2024, at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.

]]>no14Calculation and Environmental Policy: Lessons from Human Actionhttp://mises.org/podcasts/human-action-conference/calculation-and-environmental-policy-lessons-human-action013Timothy D. TerrellSat, 18 May 2024 14:15:00 -0500139058"In writing Human Action, Mises did not devote much space to a direct discussion of environmental policy. But, as I went through the book with an eye toward material related to environmental issues, I saw some comments from Mises that show that his advances in economic calculation, his thoughts on conservation, his understanding of the function of private property, and his remarks on interest group politics are all applicable to today's debates on environmental policy."

Presented at the 2024 Human Action Conference on Saturday, 18 May 2024, at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.

]]>no15There’s Many a Slip ’twixt Cup and Liphttp://mises.org/podcasts/human-action-conference/theres-many-slip-twixt-cup-and-lip013Jonathan NewmanSat, 18 May 2024 14:45:00 -0500139059"Ludwig von Mises was a true genius and we can certainly see that on display in his magnum opus, Human Action. The book is cohesive, thorough, and systematic and yet each sentence, paragraph, and page is pregnant with opportunities for scholars to expand and clarify."

Presented at the 2024 Human Action Conference on Saturday, 18 May 2024, at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.

]]>no16How Human Action Guided My Teaching and Research Careerhttp://mises.org/podcasts/human-action-conference/how-human-action-guided-my-teaching-and-research-career013Thomas J. DiLorenzoSat, 18 May 2024 15:30:00 -0500139060"If you have Austrian Economics and libertarian theory in your educational background, you look at history very differently.

Presented at the 2024 Human Action Conference on Saturday, 18 May 2024, at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.

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