The Tom Woods Show, episode 924.

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my link, Ron Paul Homeschool.com. Hello, everybody, Tom Woods here. Join today by Joe Salerno,

who is academic vice president of the Mezes Institute.

He has taught economics at Pace University and Auburn University. He's the author of the

excellent book, Money, Sound and Unsound. And he's the author of a recent paper on the subject

of Mises and nationalism and immigration and questions of that sort.

And what he's showing here is that there's some nuance to Mises' thought, that Mises actually

points out that when you have a bunch of nationalities being ruled under one state,

it's not always strawberries and cream all the time, that actually

there are problems that arise, particularly because of the pernicious influence of the state.

So we're going to try and unpack what Mises thought on all this was.

Joe, welcome.

I'm happy to be here, Tom.

Very interesting article you wrote, I'm linking to it at Tom Woods.com slash 924. Mezes on nationalism,

the right of self-determination, and the problem of immigration. Now, obviously, Mises didn't live to see

the massive movements of peoples of our particular time and the particular composition of those peoples.

But he had written about the general phenomenon of polyglot empires and of national minorities

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