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Free Market Economics Scope & Sequence

• First Year: Ludwig Von Mises Institute books, Journal of Libertarian Studies, Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics.

"Von Mises called himself a liberal, but a great many conservative and libertarian scholars, businessmen, and elected officials consider him their economic guru. This is easy to understand since conservatives and libertarians, whether they read his books or not, believe von Mises made an admirable case for private property, capitalism as opposed to communism and socialism, free trade, and for a minimum of governmental interference with business." Ludwig von Mises and the Science of Everything (The social science side of Misian economic influence)

Ron Paul - The American Power Structure (1988)

 

 

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Trinity Foundation Collection 1: Introduction to Economics Conference on Christianity and Economics (8 lectures) 1. The Growth of Government in the United States, John Robbins  2. The Roots and Fruits of the Environmental Movement, E. Calvin Beisner  3. The Ministry of The Trinity Foundation, Jack Lannom 4. The Failure of Secular Economic Theory, John Robbins  5. The Failure of Secular Economic Policy, Ronald Cooper  6. Justice and Wealth, E. Calvin Beisner  7. Christian Economists: Do They Know What They Are Doing? Ronald Cooper  8. The Promise of Christian Economics, John Robbins  Christianity and Economics (2 lectures) 1. Money, Freedom, and the Bible, John Robbins  2. Teaching Economics from the Bible, John Robbins Collection 2: Intermediate Economics Introduction to Economics, John Robbins (18 lectures) 1. Common Misconceptions about Economics 2. Historical Definitions 3. History of Economics 4. Method and Definitions 5. The Axiom of Scripture 6. The Economic Corollaries of the Axiom 7. Opportunity Cost 8. Subjective Value 9. Marginal Utility 10. The Law of Supply 11. The Law of Demand 12. The Functions of Prices 13. Values - Moral and Economic 14. The Ethics of Self-interest and Profit 15. The Ethics of Competition 16. Christian Theology 17. Private Property 18. Limited Government and Peace

 

 

 

• "The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit."
• "Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own. Nobody uses somebody else's resources as carefully as he uses his own. So if you want efficiency and effectiveness, if you want knowledge to be properly utilized, you have to do it through the means of private property."
• "Governments never learn. Only people learn."
• "So the question is, do corporate executives, provided they stay within the law, have responsibilities in their business activities other than to make as much money for their stockholders as possible? And my answer to that is, no they do not"
• "The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom."
• "Most economic fallacies derive - from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another."
• "Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself."
• "What kind of society isn't structured on greed? The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm; capitalism is that kind of a system""History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition."
• "The society that puts equality before freedom will end up with neither. The society that puts freedom before equality will end up with a great measure of both."