Comments (27)

• marc

  Is this audio for the intro only or for the whole book? Is the audio for the whole book completed yet?

  Published: April 10, 2009 8:46 AM

• Neo-Cicero

  The audio link points to the introduction.

  Published: April 10, 2009 9:24 AM

• Philip

  Marvelous. Could we get an RSS feed, though? (I prefer to download audiobook files through iTunes.)

  Published: April 10, 2009 9:42 AM

• Marc

  So is the entire audio book available for download right now, or is only the introduction completed?

  Published: April 10, 2009 10:11 AM

• Jeffrey Tucker

  The entire book is being recorded. We are uploading them chapter by chapter as time permits.

  Published: April 10, 2009 11:22 AM

• Phrizek

  I think my head just exploded. Marvelous!

  Published: April 10, 2009 11:28 AM

• Arend

  THE classic of modern economics converted into an audiobook... FOR FREE, can it get any better than this?

  Yes it can, it's narrated by Jeff Riggenbach! The guy with (IMHO!) one of the best voices for this stuff. Good choice!

  Highly appreciated.

  Published: April 10, 2009 12:21 PM

• Daniel C

  I think I say this every time the Mises Institute releases something as read by Riggenbach, but it bears repeating: HEROIC!

  Published: April 10, 2009 12:39 PM

• Neo-Cicero

  Thanks info Jeff, I appreciate it.

  Published: April 10, 2009 1:42 PM

• Abhi

  I love you guys! Thanks for putting this up, I can't wait till it's all up there.

  Published: April 10, 2009 2:04 PM

• Mac

  There's a lot of Austrian and Libertarian audio at Blackstone Audiobooks.

  Check out four books by Mises alone:
  http://www.blackstoneaudio.com/Search.cfm?search=Ludwig%20von%20Mises

  There's Rothbard here:
  http://www.blackstoneaudio.com/audiobook.cfm?id=5048

  Cheers

  Published: April 10, 2009 2:18 PM

• jeffrey

  If our friends at Blockstone weren't sung hung up on IP issues, this might not have been necessary but as it is, it all works out because at least we release them to the world. Maybe now they will fix their typo on their Human Action cover. I actually sent an edited graphic to them years ago but they never uploaded it.

  Published: April 10, 2009 2:44 PM

• Mac

  I hear what you're saying Jeffrey.

  Will this version of Human Action be based on the 4th "Scholars" edition?

  The "Blockstone" version is based on the third edition.

  And what about the Rothbard work read by Riggenbach?

  Published: April 10, 2009 2:55 PM

• ET

  One thing that is probably needed is some sort of included glossary.

  Mises, brilliant as he was, tended to use some rather obscure words. For example, I had to look up catallactic (which the online spell checking inside firefox still underlines as misspelled). This is why there is a book, "Mises Made Easier" (which is online here).

  Perhaps, the first few times one of these obscure words is used, the speaker could parenthetically mention a short definition. This is something I would have loved to see done in the Actual Book itself.

  Now here's where copyright law gets in the way too; without copyright, perhaps someone might combine all the definitions in Mises Made Easier, as footnotes in Mises' Human Action where these terms are first used.

  I don't know if this is even a feasible request, but I'm throwing it out here for discussion.
  

  Published: April 10, 2009 3:16 PM

• Mac

  @ET

  I would agree with putting some definitions into it, but some may take offence.

  I would favor comprehension, because understanding a whole system is already hard enough -- earlier planks of ideas tend to slip your mind as new ones are laid down.

  That said, having it read to you might make the comprehension easier.

  Good thought though.

  Published: April 10, 2009 4:04 PM

• Greg Ransom

  Great! I've owned this on tape.

  But now I can IPod it.

  Thanks!

  Published: April 10, 2009 4:50 PM

• Julien Couvreur

  Thanks! This is awesome.

  Published: April 10, 2009 4:59 PM

• Suzanne Riggenbach

  I want to "thank" all of you for your kind comments. This is a massive undertaking, not to mention, many hours under the "cans" proofing what Jeff has read and then more proofing is done by the Mises crew.
  

  Published: April 10, 2009 5:28 PM

• BK Marcus

  Philip wrote, "Marvelous. Could we get an RSS feed, though? (I prefer to download audiobook files through iTunes.)"

  You can point iTunes to this podcast feed:

  http://mises.org/Feeds/media.ashx?CategoryId=139

  Published: April 10, 2009 7:17 PM

• Luke

  Fantastic! Thanks to all involved.

  Published: April 11, 2009 10:05 AM

• Johnny

  There is one word that I found Mr. Riggenbach got it wrong.

  In the sixth from the last paragraph of section 3, or right after 24:46 of the recording, there is a word "pacemaker" that is wrongly pronounced as "peacemaker".

  Dont get me wrong, I'm not here to spoil the project. I really appreciate Mr. Riggenbach's endeavour to take on this immense challenge; and his voice is truely awesome. He sounds like a god.

  Published: April 11, 2009 10:56 AM

• Alexander S. Peak

  I agree with Arend, Jeff Riggenbach's voice is absolute excellence. I can't wait to listen to this.

  (Side-note: I, like Johnny, found an error in a Riggenbach recording, but it was on For a New Liberty. Riggenback says "libertarian" where he ought to have said "liberation" or something. It was when Rothbard was quoting Bailyn, I think. The chapter on America's libertarian heritage, I think.)

  Yours,
  Alex Peak
  

  Published: April 12, 2009 5:33 AM

• Nick

  I cannot believe you guys are giving this away for free! This is why I am not an Objectivist!

  Published: April 12, 2009 10:08 PM

• Paul

  Can't wait for it to be completed. Send me a check.

  Published: April 13, 2009 7:59 AM

• Jack Maturin

  This audio book is brilliant news.

  Can't wait for 'Man, Economy, and State'! :-)

  Published: May 1, 2009 7:54 AM

• Jeff Palasek

  This Jeff Riggenbach reading is much better than the Bernard Mayes (blackstone) reading. I sometimes zone-out while listening to the blackstone recording, but I'm hanging onto ever word of the Riggenbach.

  Bravo!

  Published: May 4, 2009 4:55 AM

• copycat042

  if someone could get me the book in pdf , or txt format without the headers and page numbers, i could make an audiobook in about an hour. please, if you can find it, email me with a link, or something. i really want to read this, but don't have a header-stripped version. copycat042@gmail.com

  Published: May 5, 2009 9:52 AM