Introduction
In this section, we place various video and audio lectures that discuss current economic trends and commentary concerning political trends
Introduction to Economic Reasoning
These three books, all relatively short and available online or for purchase, are an excellent starting point for an education in sound economics.
Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt
Essentials of Economics by Faustino Ballve
An Introduction to Austrian Economics by Thomas C. Taylor
A useful companion to Hazlitt's Economics in One Lesson is this series of videos, recorded in July-August 2008, in which various professors comment on each of the book's chapters — explaining the argument, elaborating on it, and applying it to present conditions.
Video 1: The Lesson
Video 2: The Broken Window
Video 3: Public Works Mean Taxes
Video 4: Credit Diverts Production
Video 5: The Curse of Machinery
Video 6: Disbanding Troops and Bureaucrats
Video 7: Who's Protected by Tariffs
Video 8: "Parity" Prices
Video 9: How the Price System Works
Video 10: Minimum Wage Laws
Video 11: The Function of Profits
Video 12: The Assault on Saving
Introduction to Austrian Economics
This course with Professor Joseph Salerno of Pace University, courtesy of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, is available in video
Lecture 1: Scarcity, Choice, and Value
Lecture 2: Exchange and Demand
Lecture 3: The Determination of Prices
Lecture 4: Price Controls: Case Studies
Lecture 5: Profit, Loss, and the Entrepreneur
Lecture 6: Pricing of the Factors of Production and the Labor Market
Lecture 7: Capital, Interest and the Structure of Production
Lecture 8: Competition and Monopoly
Lecture 9: Money and Prices
Lecture 10: Banking and the Business Cycle
Audio Political Commentaries
The Law by Frederic Bastiat
I, Pencil by Leonard Read
A Nation of Sheep by Judge Andrew Napolitano
Democracy: The God that Failed by Hans Hermann-Hoppe
Energy and Environmental Regulation by Robert Bradley
Conservation, Ecology, and Growth by Murray Rothbard
The State by Murray Rothbard U.S. Foreign Policy Towards India and Middle East by Doug Bandow
War and Foreign Policy by Murray Rothbard
19th Century Conservative Protestant Theory and the Biblical View of Property by Shawn Ritenour
Academics and the State by Peter Klein
Education by Murray Rothbard
Progressive Academic Scholarship and Liberal Protestant Theology: 1902-1940 by Gary North
The Indefensibility of Political Representation by Gerard Casey
Personal Liberty by Murray Rothbard Habeas Corpus, Centralism, and Decentralism by Anthony Gregory
Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature by Murray Rothbard
Property and Exchange by Murray Rothbard
Audio Economic Commentaries
Great Myths of the Great Depression by Lawrence Reed
The Myth of War Prosperity by Robert Higgs
Economics and the Myths of Central Banking by Jjoseph Salerno
The Marginalist Revolution by Joseph Salerno
The Battle of Ideas from Keynes to Thatcher by Antonio Masala
Welfare and the Welfare State by Murray Rothbard
Calculation and Socialism by Joseph Salerno
Monetary Lessons from America's Past by Thomas Woods
Austrian vs. Neoclassical Analytics by Robery Murphy
Capital and Interest by Roberty Murphy
The Link Between Degenerating Currency and Degenerating Culture by Paul Prentice
Science and the Free Market by Norman Horn
The Wage Gap and Glass Ceiling by Walter Block
Skyscrapers and Business Cycles by Mark Thorton
Monopoly and Competition by Walter Block
The Influence of John Calvin on Economic Thought by Timothy Terrell
Say's Law and Austrian Business Cycle Theory by William Anderson
The Fall of Communism and the Rise of 21st Century Socialism by Yuri Maltsev