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In many minds, "capitalism" has come to be a bad word, nor does "free enterprise" sound much better. I remember seeing posters in Russia in the early nineteen-thirties depicting capitalists as Frankenstein monsters, as men with yellow-green faces, crocodile teeth,

Download the slides from this lecture at Mises.org/MU21_PPT_06. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 19 July 2021.

Download the slides from this lecture at Mises.org/MU21_PPT_05. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 19 July 2021.

One of the most important principles of economics is that people respond to incentives. You get more of whatever you incentivize. You get less of whatever you disincentivize. This is irrefutable. The supplemental unemployment payment does both—it incentivizes people not

Download the slides from this lecture at Mises.org/MU21_PPT_04. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 19 July 2021.

Download lectures slides at Mises.org/MU21_PPT_03. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 19 July 2021.

Download lecture slides at Mises.org/MU21_PPT_01. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 19 July 2021.

Vaccine mandates are coming. Good, said Indiana University chief health officer Aaron E. Carroll.  “When it comes to incentives, most people like carrots,” Carroll wrote in his New York Times essay. “Sometimes, though, people need sticks.” Carroll laments the fact that incentives

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 18 July 2021.

New York was the toughest nut for the Federalists to crack. For here was one state where not only was the population overwhelmingly opposed to the Constitution, but the opposition was also in firm and determined control of the state