Recommended Reading: Challenge of Liberty Student Seminar
Recommended Reading: Challenge of Liberty Student Seminar
Colorado Springs, June 17–21 2013
Below you will find the reading for the summer seminar. To fully understand each lecture, you will want to at least look at all the preparatory readings. The supplemental readings are less necessary. See especially the Plato, Cochran, and Higgs items.
Monday: The Rise of Liberty
Preparation:
Plato and Thucydites: “Plato’s Ring in the Sudan”
Bruce Benson: “Where Does Law Come From?”
John Cochran: “Limits of Limited Government Mercantilism, the Unvanquished Foe of Liberty” (presentation and pdf)
Daron Acemoglu: “What Makes a Nation Rich? One Economist’s Big Answer”
Supplemental:
Jim Powell: “John Locke: Natural Right to Life, Liberty, and Property”
Lysander Spooner: “Natural Law, or the Science of Justice”
Tuesday: Economics Fundamentals
Preparation:
F.A. Hayek: “The Use of Knowledge in Society”
Israel Kirzner: “Equilibrium versus Market Process”
Ludwig von Mises: “The Market” (chapter XV from Human Action)
Frederic Bastiat: “The Broken Window”
Roderick Long: “Praxeology: Who Needs It?” (pdf)
Supplemental:
Tom DiLorenzo: “Trade and the Rise of Freedom”
Frederich Hayek: “Competition as a Discovery Procedure”
Wednesday: Interventionism
Preparation:
George Stigler: “The Theory of Economic Regulation” (pdf)
Ludwig von Mises: “The Market: Section 5: Competition”
Murray Rothbard: “What Has Government Done to Our Money?”
Roger W. Garrison: Time and Money, Hayek and Keynes Powerpoints
John P. Cochran: “Capital-Based M acroeconomics: Recent Developments and Extensions of Austrian Business Cycle Theory”
John P. Cochran: “A Crisis of Authority: Pierre Lemieux’s Somebody in Charge: A Solution to Recessions?”
Peter Beottke: “Economic Calculation: The Austrian Contribution to Political Economy”
Supplemental:
D.T. Armentano: “A Politically Incorrect Guide to Antitrust Policy” by D.T. Armentano
Frank Chodorov: “Taxation Is Robbery” by Frank Chodorov
David Theroux: “Robert Higgs on Why Government Is Prolonging the Economic Crisis,” The Beacon Blog, (March 17).
Thursday: Government Failure Today
Preparation:
Robert Higgs: “The Complex Path of Ideological Change” (video)
“Crisis, Bigger Government, and Ideological Change”
“The Welfare State: Promising Protection in an Age of Anxiety”
“The Economics of the Great Society”
Ralph Raico: “Marxist Dreams and Soviet Realities”
Ludwig von Mises: The Weimar Republic And Its Collapse, Nazism as a World Problem
Frank Dikötter: “Mao’s Great Famine”
Supplemental:
Stephan Kinsella: “How Intellectual Property Hampers the Free Market”
Walter Block: “A Libertarian Case for Free Immigration”
Friday: The Future of Freedom
Preparation:
Robert Higgs: “The Great Contraction, 1929–33”
Horwitz and McPhillips: “The Reality of the Wartime Economy”
Supplemental:
David Theroux: “CS Lewis on Mere Liberty and the Evils of Statism”
Anthony Gregory: “The Golden Age of Freedom Is Still Ahead”
