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Teaching Austrian Economics at the University of Iowa

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Patrick Barron Posted: Wed, Nov 11 2009 4:49 PM

I will be teaching a course in Austrian economics at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, for the spring semester, which starts on January 19th.  I taught a similar course last spring and it was very well received.  This one will be slightly different--we'll read different books--but there will be no prerequisite of having to have taken the course a year ago.  I worked with the administration so that students who took my course last spring can take this one and still get a full three semester hours of credit.  I plan to use Rothbard's The Mystery of Banking and Reisman's Capitalism as textbooks.  I am still outlining the course curriculum, so if anyone has some suggestions, please pass them along to me at PatrickBarron@msn.com.

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Giant_Joe replied on Wed, Nov 11 2009 4:57 PM

Excellent!

...I don't have anything in the way of suggestions, though.

 

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DanielMuff replied on Wed, Nov 11 2009 5:15 PM

Patrick Barron:

I will be teaching a course in Austrian economics at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, for the spring semester, which starts on January 19th.  I taught a similar course last spring and it was very well received.  This one will be slightly different--we'll read different books--but there will be no prerequisite of having to have taken the course a year ago.  I worked with the administration so that students who took my course last spring can take this one and still get a full three semester hours of credit.  I plan to use Rothbard's The Mystery of Banking and Reisman's Capitalism as textbooks.  I am still outlining the course curriculum, so if anyone has some suggestions, please pass them along to me at PatrickBarron@msn.com.

Reisman's Capitalism might be to much for beginners to Austrian Economics. Have you considered any of these:

http://mises.org/store/Essentials-of-Economics-P471.aspx

http://mises.org/store/Economics-in-One-Lesson-P33.aspx

http://mises.org/store/Concise-Guide-to-Economics-The-P193.aspx

What about making a reader for intro to Austrian Economics?

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