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<p>&nbsp;</p><h2 class="page-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #38709e; font-family: crimson_text, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 25px; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: top;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgndveQuXaG0H8O0vb0lxdNST9a7F6JQ8tPRMBYnlVkgsF7O0shBnOKTJrJ4WFd6yIMT_FtqdHUxfTFZUMDh16YNhouKnXZkaJ4ArM2GE7UbP7FWD4PUnL4PolfZlg518bmK_JDRy2hlZibCi9UYNKqT5IiWu6FkqMXf9DVHe_H0nB7OysXLaeuNCf3aQ" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="330" data-original-width="480" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgndveQuXaG0H8O0vb0lxdNST9a7F6JQ8tPRMBYnlVkgsF7O0shBnOKTJrJ4WFd6yIMT_FtqdHUxfTFZUMDh16YNhouKnXZkaJ4ArM2GE7UbP7FWD4PUnL4PolfZlg518bmK_JDRy2hlZibCi9UYNKqT5IiWu6FkqMXf9DVHe_H0nB7OysXLaeuNCf3aQ" width="320" /></a></div></h2><p class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin: 0px 0px 12.5px;"><span class="tag-label bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600; padding-right: 5px; text-transform: uppercase;">TAGS</span>&nbsp;<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/socialism" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Socialism</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/strategy" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Strategy</a>&nbsp;</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/political-theory" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Political Theory</a>&nbsp;</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/private-property" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Private Property</a>&nbsp;</span></p><section class="group-date-author" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/profile/hans-hermann-hoppe" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; text-decoration: none;">Hans-Hermann Hoppe</a></span></section><div class="field field-name-field-narrator" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div class="label-inline" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: left; font-weight: bold; margin-right: 2px;">Narrator:&nbsp;</div><a href="https://mises.org/profile/paul-strikwerda" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #38709e; text-decoration: none;">Paul Strikwerda</a></div><div class="body-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 12.5px;">In June 2004, Professor Hoppe visited the Mises Institute in Auburn to deliver an ambitious series of lectures titled&nbsp;<a href="https://mises.org/node/55727" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #38709e; text-decoration: none;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Economy, Society, and Histor</em>y</a>.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 12.5px;">This project brings together the core of Hoppe’s lifetime of theoretical work in one vital and cohesive source. Here we find provocative themes developed by Hoppe in the 1980s and 90s, particularly in his essays found in&nbsp;<a href="https://mises.org/library/theory-socialism-and-capitalism-0" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #38709e; text-decoration: none;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism</em></a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://mises.org/library/economics-and-ethics-private-property-0" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #38709e; text-decoration: none;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Economics and Ethics of Private Property</em></a>. We also find his devastating critique of democracy, made famous in his seminal book&nbsp;<a href="https://mises.org/library/democracy-god-failed-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #38709e; text-decoration: none;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Democracy—The God That Failed</em></a>.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 12.5px;">This audiobook is&nbsp;narrated by Paul Strikwerda.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 12.5px;"></p><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"><a href="http://mp3.anarchistphilosophies.com/EconomySocietyandHistory.mp3" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: #38709e; background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 6px 10px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: middle; white-space: nowrap;" target="_blank" title="01-Introduction.mp3" type="audio/mpeg; length=23125769">Download audio file</a></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;">&nbsp;<a href="https://mises.org/library/economy-society-and-history-audiobook-0" style="color: #3d85c6; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">READ MORE</a></div></div>

Economy, Society, and History

<p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhaQUVG_tIs3pVoAuv1Hpju2IclT6c05bhEknia2oxVxMbzcTjRKQofrgCjYPatlLeQynGjGKmj141vv2c0alWoexMMqq_idZgWuEYIQa61wegz7TTJihyBOKkNpurCebMJZW2HTPSGIQQKq7fCzTx_vH2BKOvfFjeW8x2YFkkiST7-FNEOhxTB4ZFX9g" style="clear: left; display: inline; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhaQUVG_tIs3pVoAuv1Hpju2IclT6c05bhEknia2oxVxMbzcTjRKQofrgCjYPatlLeQynGjGKmj141vv2c0alWoexMMqq_idZgWuEYIQa61wegz7TTJihyBOKkNpurCebMJZW2HTPSGIQQKq7fCzTx_vH2BKOvfFjeW8x2YFkkiST7-FNEOhxTB4ZFX9g" width="240" /></a></p><p class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin: 0px 0px 12.5px;"><span class="tag-label bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600; padding-right: 5px; text-transform: uppercase;">TAGS</span>&nbsp;<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/cronyism-and-corporatism" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Cronyism and Corporatism</a>&nbsp;</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/us-history" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">U.S. History</a>&nbsp;</span></p><p class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin: 0px 0px 12.5px;"></p><section class="group-date-author" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span class="date" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; font-weight: 600; text-transform: uppercase;">&nbsp;</span><span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/profile/patrick-newman-0" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; text-decoration: none;">Patrick Newman</a></span></section><div class="body-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 12.5px;">&nbsp;History is a clash between the forces of liberty and the proponents of power. In&nbsp;<a href="https://mises.org/library/cronyism-liberty-versus-power-early-america-1607-1849" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #38709e; text-decoration: none;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Cronyism</em></a>, Patrick Newman offers a compelling and important narrative on the early days of the American republic, and the rise of a Federal regime that conquers a nation conceived in liberty.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 12.5px;">&nbsp;Narrated by Scott R. Pollack</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 12.5px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 12.5px;"></p><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"><a href="http://mp3.anarchistphilosophies.com/Cronyism.mp3" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: #38709e; background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 6px 10px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: middle; white-space: nowrap;" target="_blank" title="01-Introduction.mp3" type="audio/mpeg; length=23125769">Download audio file</a></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;">&nbsp;<a href="https://mises.org/library/cronyism-liberty-versus-power-early-america-1607-1849-audiobook" style="color: #3d85c6; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">READ MORE</a></div></div>

Cronyism: Liberty versus Power in Early America, 1607–1849

<p>&nbsp;</p><h2 class="page-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #38709e; font-family: crimson_text, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 25px; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: top;"></h2><div class="group-image-wrapper field-group-html-element pull-left" id="slideshow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-right: 20px; width: 240px;"><div class="image border-secondary" style="border-top-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 8px; box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="media media--image" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin-top: 0px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; zoom: 1;"><img alt="Democracy: The God That Failed Audiobook" class="media__element b-lazy b-loaded" data-bio-hit="1" height="" loading="lazy" src="https://cdn.mises.org/styles/slideshow/s3/static-page/img/democracy_hoppe_750x516_20210413.jpg?itok=redI7Gzi" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; min-height: 1px; opacity: 1; vertical-align: middle;" title="Democracy: The God That Failed Audiobook" typeof="foaf:Image" width="240" /></div></div></div><p class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin: 0px 0px 12.5px;"><span class="tag-label bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600; padding-right: 5px; text-transform: uppercase;">TAGS</span>&nbsp;<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/world-history" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">World History</a>&nbsp;</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/other-schools-thought" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Other Schools of Thought</a>&nbsp;</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/philosophy-and-methodology" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Philosophy and Methodology</a>&nbsp;</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/political-theory" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Political Theory</a>&nbsp;</span></p><section class="group-date-author" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/profile/hans-hermann-hoppe" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; text-decoration: none;">Hans-Hermann Hoppe</a>&nbsp;</span></section><div class="body-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 12.5px;">This book is a systematic treatment of the historic transformation of the West from limited monarchy to unlimited democracy. Revisionist in nature, it reaches the conclusion that monarchy, with all its failings, is a lesser evil than mass democracy, but outlines deficiencies in both as systems of guarding liberty.&nbsp;</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 12.5px;">Narrated by Paul Strikwerda.&nbsp;</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 12.5px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 12.5px;"></p><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"><a href="http://mp3.anarchistphilosophies.com/democracythegodthatfailed2.mp3" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: #38709e; background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 6px 10px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: middle; white-space: nowrap;" target="_blank" title="01-Introduction.mp3" type="audio/mpeg; length=23125769">Download audio file</a></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;">&nbsp;<a href="https://mises.org/library/democracy-god-failed-audiobook" target="_blank">READ MORE</a></div></div>

Democracy: The God That Failed Part 2

<p>&nbsp;</p><h2 class="page-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #38709e; font-family: crimson_text, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 25px; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: top;"></h2><div class="group-image-wrapper field-group-html-element pull-left" id="slideshow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; float: left; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-right: 20px; width: 240px;"><div class="image border-secondary" style="border-top-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 8px; box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="media media--image" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin-top: 0px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; zoom: 1;"><img alt="Democracy: The God That Failed Audiobook" class="media__element b-lazy b-loaded" data-bio-hit="1" height="" loading="lazy" src="https://cdn.mises.org/styles/slideshow/s3/static-page/img/democracy_hoppe_750x516_20210413.jpg?itok=redI7Gzi" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; min-height: 1px; opacity: 1; vertical-align: middle;" title="Democracy: The God That Failed Audiobook" typeof="foaf:Image" width="240" /></div></div></div><p class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin: 0px 0px 12.5px;"><span class="tag-label bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600; padding-right: 5px; text-transform: uppercase;">TAGS</span>&nbsp;<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/world-history" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">World History</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/other-schools-thought" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Other Schools of Thought</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/philosophy-and-methodology" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Philosophy and Methodology</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/political-theory" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Political Theory</a>&nbsp;</span></p><section class="group-date-author" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/profile/hans-hermann-hoppe" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; text-decoration: none;">Hans-Hermann Hoppe</a>&nbsp;</span></section><div class="body-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 12.5px;">This book is a systematic treatment of the historic transformation of the West from limited monarchy to unlimited democracy. Revisionist in nature, it reaches the conclusion that monarchy, with all its failings, is a lesser evil than mass democracy, but outlines deficiencies in both as systems of guarding liberty.&nbsp;</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 12.5px;">Narrated by Paul Strikwerda.&nbsp;</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 12.5px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 12.5px;"></p><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"><a href="http://mp3.anarchistphilosophies.com/democracythegodthatfailed1.mp3" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: #38709e; background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 6px 10px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: middle; white-space: nowrap;" target="_blank" title="01-Introduction.mp3" type="audio/mpeg; length=23125769">Download audio file</a></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;">&nbsp;<a href="https://mises.org/library/democracy-god-failed-audiobook" target="_blank">READ MORE</a></div></div>

Democracy: The God That Failed Part 1

<p>&nbsp;</p><h2 class="page-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #38709e; font-family: crimson_text, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 25px; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: top;"></h2><div class="group-image-wrapper field-group-html-element pull-left" id="slideshow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; float: left !important; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-right: 20px; width: 240px;"><div class="image border-secondary" style="border-top-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 8px; box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="media  media--image" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin-top: 0px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; zoom: 1;"><img alt="Defending the Undefendable II audiobook" class="media__element b-lazy b-loaded" data-bio-hit="1" height="" loading="lazy" src="https://cdn.mises.org/styles/slideshow/s3/static-page/img/dtu2-750x516-20210223.jpg?itok=GbMofdjg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; min-height: 1px; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 500ms ease-in-out; vertical-align: middle;" title="Defending the Undefendable II audiobook" typeof="foaf:Image" width="240" /></div></div></div><p class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin: 0px 0px 12.5px;"><span class="tag-label bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600; padding-right: 5px; text-transform: uppercase;">TAGS</span>&nbsp;<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/free-markets" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Free Markets</a>&nbsp;</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/monopoly-and-competition" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Monopoly and Competition</a>&nbsp;</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/subjectivism" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Subjectivism</a>&nbsp;</span></p><section class="group-date-author" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/profile/walter-block" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; text-decoration: none;">Walter Block</a></span></section><div class="body-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 12.5px;">The true test of our commitment to personal liberty doesn't come when we permit others to engage in those peaceable, voluntary acts with which we agree. It comes when we permit others to engage in peaceable, voluntary acts we find offensive. Walter Block's&nbsp;<a href="http://mises.org/dtu2" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #38709e; text-decoration: none;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Defending the Undefendable II</em></a>&nbsp;contains thirty chapters defending behavior that is probably offensive to most Americans, and many that are downright illegal.&nbsp;</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 12.5px;">This book features a foreword by Ron Paul.&nbsp;Narrated by Patrick Smith.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 12.5px;"></p></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"><a href="http://mp3.anarchistphilosophies.com/DefendingTheUndefendable2.mp3" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: #38709e; background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 6px 10px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: middle; white-space: nowrap;" target="_blank" title="01-Introduction.mp3" type="audio/mpeg; length=23125769">Download audio file</a></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 12.5px;">&nbsp;<a href="https://mises.org/library/defending-undefendable-2-audiobook" target="_blank">READ MORE</a></div>

Defending the Undefendable 2

<h2 class="page-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #38709e; font-family: crimson_text, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 25px; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: top;"></h2><div class="group-image-wrapper field-group-html-element pull-left" id="slideshow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; float: left !important; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-right: 20px; width: 240px;"><div class="image border-secondary" style="border-top-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 8px; box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="flexslider optionset-node-slideshow flexslider-processed" id="flexslider-1" style="-webkit-box-shadow: none; background-color: transparent; border-bottom-left-radius: 4px; border-bottom-right-radius: 4px; border-top-left-radius: 4px; border-top-right-radius: 4px; border: 0px; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; zoom: 1;"><div class="flex-viewport" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-height: 2000px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; transition: all 1s ease;"><ul class="slides" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px); transition-duration: 0s; width: 480px; zoom: 1;"><li style="-webkit-backface-visibility: hidden; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; float: left; width: 240px;"><img alt="Conceived in Liberty, Volume 5 Audiobook" draggable="false" src="https://cdn.mises.org/styles/slideshow/s3/static-page/img/CIL_5_750x516_20200120.jpg?itok=Ncd9AxCP" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; vertical-align: middle; width: 240px;" title="Conceived in Liberty, Volume 5 Audiobook" typeof="foaf:Image" /></li></ul></div></div></div></div><div class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"><span class="tag-label bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600; padding-right: 5px; text-transform: uppercase;">&nbsp;TAGS</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/us-history" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">U.S. History</a>&nbsp;</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/history-austrian-school-economics" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">History of the Austrian School of Economics</a>&nbsp;</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/political-theory" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Political Theory</a>&nbsp;</span></div><section class="group-date-author" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/profile/murray-n-rothbard" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; text-decoration: none;">Murray N. Rothbard</a>&nbsp;</span></section><div class="body-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;">The fifth volume of&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Conceived in Liberty</em>&nbsp;highlights the most important battle of the American project&nbsp;— one that continues to this day — the conflict between those who want to centralize power, and those who choose to stand to defend the American heritage of liberty.&nbsp;</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;">This book features a foreword by Judge Andrew Napolitano, a preface by Dr. Thomas E. Woods, and an introduction by Dr. Patrick Newman.&nbsp;Narrated by Millian Quinteros.&nbsp;</div></div><div class="view view-term-landing view-id-term_landing view-display-id-author_box audience author-box view-dom-id-9218ba5e72023396a9904938ee8b0385" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-top: 45px;"><div class="view-header" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 1em;">Author:&nbsp;</div><div class="view-content" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="views-row views-row-1 views-row-odd views-row-first views-row-last" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 28px;"><div about="/profile/murray-n-rothbard" class="ds-2col-custom-fluid column node node-person-profile view-mode-author_box  clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box;" typeof="schema:Person sioc:Item foaf:Document"><div class="panel-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;"><div class="group-top col-xs-12" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; position: relative; width: 693.328125px;"><div class="author-box__name" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/profile/murray-n-rothbard" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #38709e;">Murray N. Rothbard</a>&nbsp;</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;">Murray N. Rothbard made major contributions to economics, history, political philosophy, and legal theory. He combined Austrian economics with a fervent commitment to individual liberty.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"><a href="http://mp3.anarchistphilosophies.com/Conceivedinlibertyvolume5.mp3" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: #38709e; background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 6px 10px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: middle; white-space: nowrap;" target="_blank" title="01-Introduction.mp3" type="audio/mpeg; length=23125769">Download audio file</a></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;">&nbsp;<a class="" href="https://mises.org/library/conceived-liberty-volume-5-new-republic-1784%E2%80%931791-0" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; text-transform: uppercase;">READ MORE</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>

Conceived in Liberty, Volume 5: The New Republic: 1784–1791

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He argued that there are only two possible archetypes in economic affairs: socialism and capitalism. All systems are combinations of those two types. The capitalist model he defines as pure protection of private property, free association, and exchange — no exceptions. All deviations from that ideal are species of socialism, with public ownership and interference with trade.</section><div class="body-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;">Narrated by Jim Vann.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"><a href="http://mp3.anarchistphilosophies.com/atheoryofsocialismandcapitalism.mp3" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: #38709e; background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 6px 10px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: middle; white-space: nowrap;" target="_blank" title="01-Introduction.mp3" type="audio/mpeg; length=23125769">Download audio file</a></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;">&nbsp;<a class="" href="https://mises.org/library/theory-socialism-and-capitalism-audio" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; text-transform: uppercase;">READ MORE</a></div></div>

A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism

<h2 class="page-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #38709e; font-family: crimson_text, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 25px; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: top;"></h2><div class="group-image-wrapper field-group-html-element pull-left" id="slideshow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; float: left !important; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-right: 20px; width: 240px;"><div class="image border-secondary" style="border-top-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 8px; box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="flexslider optionset-node-slideshow flexslider-processed" id="flexslider-1" style="-webkit-box-shadow: none; background-color: transparent; border-bottom-left-radius: 4px; border-bottom-right-radius: 4px; border-top-left-radius: 4px; border-top-right-radius: 4px; border: 0px; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; zoom: 1;"><div class="flex-viewport" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-height: 2000px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; transition: all 1s ease;"><ul class="slides" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px); transition-duration: 0s; width: 480px; zoom: 1;"><li style="-webkit-backface-visibility: hidden; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; float: left; width: 240px;"><img alt="Hans Hoppe Private Production of Defense" draggable="false" src="https://mises-media.s3.amazonaws.com/styles/slideshow/s3/static-page/img/Private%20Production%20of%20Defense_Hoppe_20190318_750x516.jpg?itok=y66tb5IA" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; vertical-align: middle; width: 240px;" title="Hans Hoppe Private Production of Defense" typeof="foaf:Image" /></li></ul></div></div></div></div><div class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"><span class="tag-label bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600; padding-right: 5px; text-transform: uppercase;">TAGS</span>&nbsp;<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/war-and-foreign-policy" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">War and Foreign Policy</a>&nbsp;</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/political-theory" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Political Theory</a>&nbsp;</span></div><div class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"><a href="https://mises.org/profile/hans-hermann-hoppe" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #00426b; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none;">Hans-Hermann Hoppe</a><span style="caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; font-size: 15px;">&nbsp;takes on the most difficult subject in economic and political theory: the provision of security. He argues that the service is better provided by free markets than government, while addressing a hundred counter-arguments. Here we have an important updating of an argument rarely made even in the libertarian tradition.</span></div><div class="body-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;">Narrated by Jim Vann.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"><a href="http://mp3.anarchistphilosophies.com/theprivateproductionofdefense.mp3" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: #38709e; background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 6px 10px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: middle; white-space: nowrap;" target="_blank" title="01-Introduction.mp3" type="audio/mpeg; length=23125769">Download audio file</a></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;">&nbsp;<a class="" href="https://mises.org/library/private-production-defense-audio" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; text-transform: uppercase;">READ MORE</a></div></div>

The Private Production of Defense

<div class="post-title-container" style="caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: white; font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><h3 class="post-title entry-title" style="font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 500; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></h3></div><div class="post-body entry-content float-container" id="post-body-1591481872765325017" style="caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: white; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px;"><div class="post-body entry-content float-container" id="post-body-2430752739828392557" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px;"><div class="group-image-wrapper field-group-html-element pull-left" id="slideshow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; float: left !important; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-right: 20px; width: 240px;"><div class="image border-secondary" style="border-top-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 8px; box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="flexslider optionset-node-slideshow flexslider-processed" id="flexslider-1" style="-webkit-box-shadow: none; background-color: transparent; border-bottom-left-radius: 4px; border-bottom-right-radius: 4px; border-top-left-radius: 4px; border-top-right-radius: 4px; border: 0px; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; zoom: 1;"><div class="flex-viewport" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-height: 2000px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; transition: all 1s ease;"><ul class="slides" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px); transition-duration: 0s; width: 480px; zoom: 1;"><li style="-webkit-backface-visibility: hidden; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; float: left; width: 240px;"><img alt="The Myth of National Defense Audiobook Hans-Hermann Hoppe" draggable="false" src="https://mises-media.s3.amazonaws.com/styles/slideshow/s3/static-page/img/Myth%20of%20National%20Defense_Hoppe_20190319-750x516.jpg?itok=R0MxyDuP" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: inherit; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 240px;" title="The Myth of National Defense Audiobook Hans-Hermann Hoppe" typeof="foaf:Image" /></li></ul></div></div></div></div><div class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"><span class="tag-label bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600; padding-right: 5px; text-transform: uppercase;">&nbsp;TAGS</span>&nbsp;<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/war-and-foreign-policy" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">War and Foreign Policy</a>&nbsp;</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/interventionism" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Interventionism</a>&nbsp;</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/monopoly-and-competition" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Monopoly and Competition</a>&nbsp;</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/political-theory" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Political Theory</a></span></div><section class="group-date-author" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-weight: 600; text-transform: uppercase;">&nbsp;</span><a href="https://mises.org/profile/hans-hermann-hoppe" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; text-decoration: none;">Hans-Hermann Hoppe</a></span></section><div class="body-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;">&nbsp;Need the state to provide national defense? Think again, and get ready for a wild intellectual ride. With eleven chapters by top libertarian scholars on all aspects of defense, this book edited by Hans-Hermann Hoppe represents an ambitious attempt to extend the idea of free enterprise to the provision of security services.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;">&nbsp;Narrated by George Pickering.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;">&nbsp;<a href="http://mp3.anarchistphilosophies.com/themythofnationaldefense2.mp3" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: #38709e; background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 6px 10px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: middle; white-space: nowrap;" target="_blank" title="01-Introduction.mp3" type="audio/mpeg; length=23125769">Download audio file</a></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;">&nbsp;<a class="" href="https://mises.org/library/myth-national-defense-essays-theory-and-history-security-production-0" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; text-transform: uppercase;">READ MORE</a></div></div></div></div>

The Myth of National Defense Part 2

<h2 class="page-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #38709e; font-family: crimson_text, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 25px; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: top;"></h2><div class="group-image-wrapper field-group-html-element pull-left" id="slideshow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; float: left !important; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-right: 20px; width: 240px;"><div class="image border-secondary" style="border-top-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 8px; box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="flexslider optionset-node-slideshow flexslider-processed" id="flexslider-1" style="-webkit-box-shadow: none; background-color: transparent; border-bottom-left-radius: 4px; border-bottom-right-radius: 4px; border-top-left-radius: 4px; border-top-right-radius: 4px; border: 0px; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; zoom: 1;"><div class="flex-viewport" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-height: 2000px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; transition: all 1s ease;"><ul class="slides" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px); transition-duration: 0s; width: 480px; zoom: 1;"><li style="-webkit-backface-visibility: hidden; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; float: left; width: 240px;"><img alt="The Myth of National Defense Audiobook Hans-Hermann Hoppe" draggable="false" src="https://mises-media.s3.amazonaws.com/styles/slideshow/s3/static-page/img/Myth%20of%20National%20Defense_Hoppe_20190319-750x516.jpg?itok=R0MxyDuP" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; vertical-align: middle; width: 240px;" title="The Myth of National Defense Audiobook Hans-Hermann Hoppe" typeof="foaf:Image" /></li></ul></div></div></div></div><div class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"><span class="tag-label bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600; padding-right: 5px; text-transform: uppercase;">&nbsp;TAGS</span>&nbsp;<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/war-and-foreign-policy" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">War and Foreign Policy</a>&nbsp;</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/interventionism" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Interventionism</a>&nbsp;</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/monopoly-and-competition" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Monopoly and Competition</a>&nbsp;</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/political-theory" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Political Theory</a></span></div><section class="group-date-author" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-weight: 600; text-transform: uppercase;">&nbsp;</span><a href="https://mises.org/profile/hans-hermann-hoppe" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; text-decoration: none;">Hans-Hermann Hoppe</a></span></section><div class="body-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;">&nbsp;Need the state to provide national defense? Think again, and get ready for a wild intellectual ride. With eleven chapters by top libertarian scholars on all aspects of defense, this book edited by Hans-Hermann Hoppe represents an ambitious attempt to extend the idea of free enterprise to the provision of security services.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;">&nbsp;Narrated by George Pickering.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;">&nbsp;<a href="http://mp3.anarchistphilosophies.com/themythofnationaldefense1.mp3" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: #38709e; background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 6px 10px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: middle; white-space: nowrap;" target="_blank" title="01-Introduction.mp3" type="audio/mpeg; length=23125769">Download audio file</a></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;">&nbsp;<a class="" href="https://mises.org/library/myth-national-defense-essays-theory-and-history-security-production-0" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; text-transform: uppercase;">READ MORE</a></div></div>

The Myth of National Defense Part 1

<div></div><div><div class="group-image-wrapper field-group-html-element pull-left" id="slideshow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; float: left !important; font-family: myriad-pro, "helvetica neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-right: 20px; width: 240px;"><div class="image border-secondary" style="border-top-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 8px; box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="flexslider optionset-node-slideshow flexslider-processed" id="flexslider-1" style="-webkit-box-shadow: none; background-position: 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 4px; border-bottom-right-radius: 4px; border-top-left-radius: 4px; border-top-right-radius: 4px; border: 0px; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; zoom: 1;"><div class="flex-viewport" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-height: 2000px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; transition: all 1s ease;"><ul class="slides" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px); transition-duration: 0s; width: 480px; zoom: 1;"><li style="-webkit-backface-visibility: hidden; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; float: left; width: 240px;"><img alt="Free Private Cities: Making Governments Compete For You Audiobook" draggable="false" src="https://mises-media.s3.amazonaws.com/styles/slideshow/s3/static-page/img/Free%20Private%20Cities_Gebel_20190211_750x516.jpg?itok=dCxJeOEj" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; vertical-align: middle; width: 240px;" title="Free Private Cities: Making Governments Compete For You Audiobook" typeof="foaf:Image" /></li></ul></div></div></div></div><div class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; font-family: myriad-pro, "helvetica neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"><span class="tag-label bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600; padding-right: 5px; text-transform: uppercase;">&nbsp;TAGS</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/decentralization-and-secession" style="background-position: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Decentralization and Secession</a>,&nbsp;</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/free-markets" style="background-position: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Free Markets</a>,&nbsp;</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/private-property" style="background-position: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Private Property</a>&nbsp;</span></div><section class="group-date-author" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, "helvetica neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/profile/titus-gebel" style="background-position: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; text-decoration: none;">Titus Gebel</a>&nbsp;</span></section><section class="group-date-author" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, "helvetica neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"></section><section class="group-date-author" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, "helvetica neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"><a href="http://mp3.anarchistphilosophies.com/freeprivatecities.mp3" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: #38709e; background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 6px 10px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: middle; white-space: nowrap;" target="_blank" title="01-Introduction.mp3" type="audio/mpeg; length=23125769">Download audio file</a>&nbsp;</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 12.5px;">&nbsp;<a class="" href="https://mises.org/library/free-private-cities-making-governments-compete-you" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; text-transform: uppercase;">READ MORE</a></div></section></div>

Free Private Cities: Making Governments Compete For You

<h2 class="page-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #38709e; font-family: crimson_text, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 25px; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: top;"></h2><div class="group-image-wrapper field-group-html-element pull-left" id="slideshow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; float: left !important; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-right: 20px; width: 240px;"><div class="image border-secondary" style="border-top-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 8px; box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="flexslider optionset-node-slideshow flexslider-processed" id="flexslider-1" style="-webkit-box-shadow: none; background-color: transparent; border-bottom-left-radius: 4px; border-bottom-right-radius: 4px; border-top-left-radius: 4px; border-top-right-radius: 4px; border: 0px; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; zoom: 1;"><div class="flex-viewport" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-height: 2000px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; transition: all 1s ease;"><ul class="slides" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px); transition-duration: 0s; width: 480px; zoom: 1;"><li style="-webkit-backface-visibility: hidden; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; float: left; width: 240px;"><img alt="Busting Myths About the State_Rofer_750x516_20181204.jpg" draggable="false" src="https://mises-media.s3.amazonaws.com/styles/slideshow/s3/static-page/img/Busting%20Myths%20About%20the%20State_Rofer_750x516_20181204.jpg?itok=tP72wNma" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; vertical-align: middle; width: 240px;" typeof="foaf:Image" /></li></ul></div></div></div></div><div class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"><span class="tag-label bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600; padding-right: 5px; text-transform: uppercase;">TAGS&nbsp;</span>&nbsp;<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/big-government" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Big Government</a>&nbsp;</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/free-markets" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Free Markets</a>&nbsp;</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/other-schools-thought" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Other Schools of Thought</a>&nbsp;</span></div><section class="group-date-author" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/profile/zack-rofer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; text-decoration: none;">Zack Rofer</a>&nbsp;</span></section><div class="body-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;">There are many popular myths that are used to try to justify the existence of the state, and also many popular myths about libertarianism and the free market. Zack Rofer's work explodes both sets of myths, and is both a primer for those taking a first look at these topics, as well as a tool for libertarians looking to sharpen their advocacy.&nbsp;</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;">Narrated by Jim Vann.&nbsp;</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"><a href="http://mp3.anarchistphilosophies.com/BustingMythsabouttheStateandtheLibertarianAlternative.mp3" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: #38709e; background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 6px 10px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: middle; white-space: nowrap;" target="_blank" title="01-Introduction.mp3" type="audio/mpeg; length=23125769">Download audio file</a></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"><a class="" href="https://mises.org/library/busting-myths-about-state-and-libertarian-alternative-0" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; text-transform: uppercase;">READ MORE</a></div></div>

Busting Myths about the State and the Libertarian Alternative

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Carabini</a>&nbsp;</span></section><div class="body-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;">Advancing social ideas that do not demand obedience or compliance requires far more personal patience than simply forcing others to comply via the political ballot box. The widely held idea that dicta and force can serve a useful purpose will eventually fade into backward thinking in the so-called public sector as it has in the private sector. Time, nature, reason, and the human spirit will see to that. Irrespective of good intentions or the approval by consensus, nature's unrelenting feedback will gradually drive ruling political authorities to extinction.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;">Narrated by Daniel Bennett.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"><a href="http://mp3.anarchistphilosophies.com/libertydictaforce.mp3" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: #38709e; background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 6px 10px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: middle; white-space: nowrap;" target="_blank" title="01-Introduction.mp3" type="audio/mpeg; length=23125769">Download audio file</a></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"><a class="" href="https://mises.org/library/liberty-dicta-force-0" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; text-transform: uppercase;">READ MORE</a></div></div>

Liberty, Dicta & Force

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Rothbard" draggable="false" src="https://mises-media.s3.amazonaws.com/styles/slideshow/s3/static-page/img/Betrayal%20of%20the%20American%20Right_750x516.jpg?itok=LKf7cG36" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; vertical-align: middle; width: 240px;" title="The Betrayal of the American Right by Murray N. Rothbard" typeof="foaf:Image" /></li></ul></div></div></div></div><div class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"><span class="tag-label bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600; padding-right: 5px; text-transform: uppercase;">TAGS&nbsp;</span>&nbsp;<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/biographies" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Biographies</a>&nbsp;</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/us-history" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">U.S. History</a>&nbsp;</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/war-and-foreign-policy" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">War and Foreign Policy</a>&nbsp;</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/austrian-school/political-theory" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Political Theory</a></span></div><section class="group-date-author" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/profile/murray-n-rothbard" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; text-decoration: none;">Murray N. Rothbard</a></span></section><div class="body-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;">After World War II, the "Old Right" was derailed by an interventionist group of anti-communist crusaders—and Libertarian ideas went by the wayside. Here, Murray Rothbard tells the sorry tale from the inside.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;">Narrated by Ian Temple.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"><a href="http://mp3.anarchistphilosophies.com/betrayaloftheamericanright.mp3" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: #38709e; background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 6px 10px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: middle; white-space: nowrap;" target="_blank" title="01_Introduction_Betrayal_Rothbard.mp3" type="audio/mpeg; length=24377511">Download audio file</a></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"><a class="" href="https://mises.org/library/betrayal-american-right-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; text-transform: uppercase;">READ MORE</a></div></div>

The Betrayal of the American Right

<h2 class="page-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #38709e; font-family: crimson_text, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 25px; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: top;"></h2><div class="group-image-wrapper field-group-html-element pull-left" id="slideshow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; float: left !important; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-right: 20px; width: 240px;"><div class="image border-secondary" style="border-top-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 8px; box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="flexslider optionset-node-slideshow flexslider-processed" id="flexslider-1" style="-webkit-box-shadow: none; background-color: transparent; border-bottom-left-radius: 4px; border-bottom-right-radius: 4px; border-top-left-radius: 4px; border-top-right-radius: 4px; border: 0px; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; zoom: 1;"><div class="flex-viewport" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-height: 2000px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; transition: all 1s ease;"><ul class="slides" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px); transition-duration: 0s; width: 480px; zoom: 1;"><li style="-webkit-backface-visibility: hidden; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; float: left; width: 240px;"><img alt="Education: Free and Compulsory" draggable="false" src="https://mises-media.s3.amazonaws.com/styles/slideshow/s3/static-page/img/Education_Rothbard_750x516.jpg?itok=s3Z_Fa0Y" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; vertical-align: middle; width: 240px;" title="Education: Free and Compulsory" typeof="foaf:Image" /></li></ul></div></div></div></div><div class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"><span class="tag-label bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600; padding-right: 5px; text-transform: uppercase;">&nbsp;TAGS</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/education" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Education</a></span></div><section class="group-date-author" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/profile/murray-n-rothbard" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; text-decoration: none;">Murray N. Rothbard</a></span></section><div class="body-content embedded-media" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"></div><span class="file" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; display: block; margin-bottom: 16px; text-align: center;"></span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;">What is it about today's school system that so many find unsatisfactory? Why have generations of reformers failed to improve the educational system, and, indeed, caused it to degenerate further and further into an ever declining level of mediocrity?</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;">In this radical and scholarly monograph, Murray N. Rothbard identifies the crucial feature of our educational system that dooms it to fail: at every level, from financing to attendance, the system relies on compulsion instead of voluntary consent. In contrast, a market-based system of schools would adhere to a purely voluntary ethic, financed with private funds, and administered entirely by private enterprise.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;">This audiobook is made available through the generosity of Mr. Tyler Folger. It is narrated by Graham Wright.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://mp3.anarchistphilosophies.com/educationfreeandcompulsory.mp3" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: #38709e; background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 6px 10px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: middle; white-space: nowrap;" target="_blank" title="01_Preface_Education_Ryan.mp3" type="audio/mpeg; length=9684808">Download audio file</a></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a class="" href="https://mises.org/library/education-free-and-compulsory-3" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; text-transform: uppercase;">READ MORE</a></div></div>

Education: Free and Compulsory

<h2 class="page-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #38709e; font-family: crimson_text, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 25px; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: top;">The Progressive Era Part 3</h2><div class="group-image-wrapper field-group-html-element pull-left" id="slideshow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; float: left; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-right: 20px; width: 240px;"><div class="image border-secondary" style="border-top-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 8px; box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="flexslider optionset-node-slideshow flexslider-processed" id="flexslider-1" style="-webkit-box-shadow: none; background-color: transparent; border-bottom-left-radius: 4px; border-bottom-right-radius: 4px; border-top-left-radius: 4px; border-top-right-radius: 4px; border: 0px; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; zoom: 1;"><div class="flex-viewport" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-height: 2000px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; transition: all 1s ease;"><ul class="slides" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px); transition-duration: 0s; width: 480px; zoom: 1;"><li style="-webkit-backface-visibility: hidden; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; float: left; width: 240px;"><img alt="Progressive Era cover 750x516 v2_1.jpg" draggable="false" src="https://mises-media.s3.amazonaws.com/styles/slideshow/s3/Progressive%20Era%20cover%20750x516%20v2_1.jpg?itok=NRdXzli4" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; vertical-align: middle; width: 240px;" typeof="foaf:Image" /></li></ul></div></div></div></div><div class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"><span class="tag-label bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600; padding-right: 5px; text-transform: uppercase;">TAGS&nbsp;</span>&nbsp;<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/bureaucracy-and-regulation" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Bureaucracy and Regulation</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/cronyism-and-corporatism" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Cronyism and Corporatism</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/us-history" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">U.S. History</a></span></div><section class="group-date-author" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; font-size: 15px;"><span class="date" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; font-weight: 600; text-transform: uppercase;">12/20/2017&nbsp;</span><span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/profile/murray-n-rothbard" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; text-decoration: none;">Murray N. Rothbard</a></span></section><div class="body-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e54; font-size: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;">Rothbard’s power-elite historical analysis shows how big business, big unions, and big government conspired to cartelize industries in order to further their own interests. Programs and agencies started in the Progressive Era have a destructive legacy that has carried on for a century.&nbsp;</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;">This audiobook is made available through the generosity of Mr. Tyler Folger. Narrated by Graham Wright.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"><a href="http://mp3.anarchistphilosophies.com/progressiveera3.mp3" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: #38709e; background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 6px 10px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: middle; white-space: nowrap;" target="_blank" title="Foreword_The Progressive Era.mp3" type="audio/mpeg; length=17920291">Download audio file</a></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"><a class="" href="https://mises.org/library/progressive-era-3" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; text-transform: uppercase;">READ MORE</a></div></div>

The Progressive Era Part 3

<h2 class="page-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #38709e; font-family: crimson_text, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 25px; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: top;">The Progressive Era Part 2</h2><div class="group-image-wrapper field-group-html-element pull-left" id="slideshow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; float: left !important; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-right: 20px; width: 240px;"><div class="image border-secondary" style="border-top-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 8px; box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="flexslider optionset-node-slideshow flexslider-processed" id="flexslider-1" style="-webkit-box-shadow: none; background-color: transparent; border-bottom-left-radius: 4px; border-bottom-right-radius: 4px; border-top-left-radius: 4px; border-top-right-radius: 4px; border: 0px; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; zoom: 1;"><div class="flex-viewport" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-height: 2000px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; transition: all 1s ease;"><ul class="slides" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px); transition-duration: 0s; width: 480px; zoom: 1;"><li style="-webkit-backface-visibility: hidden; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; float: left; width: 240px;"><img alt="Progressive Era cover 750x516 v2_1.jpg" draggable="false" src="https://mises-media.s3.amazonaws.com/styles/slideshow/s3/Progressive%20Era%20cover%20750x516%20v2_1.jpg?itok=NRdXzli4" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; vertical-align: middle; width: 240px;" typeof="foaf:Image" /></li></ul></div></div></div></div><div class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"><span class="tag-label bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600; padding-right: 5px; text-transform: uppercase;">TAGS&nbsp;</span>&nbsp;<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/bureaucracy-and-regulation" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Bureaucracy and Regulation</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/cronyism-and-corporatism" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">Cronyism and Corporatism</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/topics/us-history" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; text-decoration: none;">U.S. History</a></span></div><section class="group-date-author" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span class="date" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; font-weight: 600; text-transform: uppercase;">12/20/2017&nbsp;</span><span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mises.org/profile/murray-n-rothbard" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00426b; text-decoration: none;">Murray N. Rothbard</a></span></section><div class="body-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(73, 78, 84); color: #494e54; font-family: myriad-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;">Rothbard’s power-elite historical analysis shows how big business, big unions, and big government conspired to cartelize industries in order to further their own interests. Programs and agencies started in the Progressive Era have a destructive legacy that has carried on for a century.&nbsp;</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;">This audiobook is made available through the generosity of Mr. Tyler Folger. Narrated by Graham Wright.&nbsp;</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"><a href="http://mp3.anarchistphilosophies.com/progressiveera2.mp3" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: #38709e; background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-color: rgb(56, 112, 158); border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 6px 10px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: middle; white-space: nowrap;" target="_blank" title="Foreword_The Progressive Era.mp3" type="audio/mpeg; length=17920291">Download audio file</a>&nbsp;</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12.5px;"><a class="" href="https://mises.org/library/progressive-era-3" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #51585c; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; text-transform: uppercase;">READ MORE</a></div></div>

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Education: Free and Compulsory

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