We rightly complain that Keynesian drivel is taught in high school and college classrooms across the world. Given the format of most classrooms, textbooks are most commonly used to teach concepts. If there are no Austrian textbooks how can we expect for Austrian economics to be taught?
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i know of a couple off hand. David Gordon wrote an Introduction to Economic Reasoning, and Mark Skousen also has a textbook
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You can pretty much use anything lol...
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Human Action.. Man, Economy and State..?
There are plenty of Austrian textbooks around - but what State sponsered school is going to push ideas that lead to it's restriction or even destruction?
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The Economic Way of Thinking seems like the best bet for an economics textbook from an Austrian perspective, I think. Gene Callahan's Economics for Real People comes to mind as well. But one problem with normal economics courses is that they're structured around the theoretical perspectives that they teach, so an Austrian economics class would seem to need to focus on different things, and it's therefore not clear to me that you could just substitute an Austrian text for a mainstream text and still teach the same class.
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As said before, plenty of Austrian economics books can be utilized as textbooks. In fact, one of the weaknesses, in my opinion, of modern education is that it relies on textbooks instead of actually reading the theorists who postulated the theories. Instead, one is left with watered down textbooks that are also extremely expensive. Its funny, I got Man, Economy, and State recently for around $10.00 while a thin, used macroeconomics textbook of mine cost $120.00.
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laminustacitus:Instead, one is left with watered down textbooks that are also extremely expensive.
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