Toby Baxendale: Is There Anything Unique About the Austrian School?

Talk given by Toby Baxendale at a meeting of the Oxford Mises Society.
Toby Baxendale (tobybaxendale.com/) is an entrepreneur and investor, economist, former magistrate, Ironman triathlete (he has twice raced in the World Championships for the 70.3 mile distance), philanthropist and family man. He is co-founder of the Cobden Centre (www.cobdencentre.org/), a classical-liberal think tank that aims to promote social progress through honest money, free trade, and peace. He is a proponent of the Austrian school of economics and sponsored the publication of Prices and Production and Other Works (mises.org/library/prices-and-..., a volume containing F. A. Hayek's most important works on economic theory.
He founded and built Direct Seafoods / Seafood Holdings, the UK’s largest fresh fish processor and supplier to the UK’s food service sector, and sold it at the end of 2010 to a large global conglomerate. He now invests in supporting other entrepreneurs building their businesses and cultivating talent.
Recorded at Corpus Christi College, Oxford on 18th January 2023.