Austrian Economics: An Introductory Course

1. Choice, Utility, and Demand

Austrian Economics OverviewCapital and Interest TheoryValue and Exchange

02/12/2010Mises Media
Economics begins with the concepts of scarcity and choice. If there was no scarcity it would all be free. Resources like time and materials need to be allocated to economically feasible uses. This will depend on the consumers' demand for the final product.
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2. Supply and Demand

Money and BanksAustrian Economics OverviewBusiness Cycles

02/20/2010Mises Media
In this lecture in 1972, supply and demand concepts included: preferences of consumers, prices, quantity, quality, elasticity, equilibrium, marginal utility, present goods, and production processes.
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3. Advertising

Media and CultureAustrian Economics Overview

02/20/2010Mises Media
Advertising has always had bad press with economists, but consumers discover that a product either works and works well, or it doesn't. Consumer wants are not artificially created by business itself.
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4. Price Controls

Austrian Economics OverviewInterventionism

02/20/2010Mises Media
Price controls — triangular interventions — occur when an intervener (generally government) either compels a pair of people to make an exchange or prohibits them from making an exchange.
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5. The Profit Motive

Austrian Economics OverviewValue and Exchange

02/20/2010Mises Media
Presented by Rothbard at New York Polytechnic University in 1972.
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6. Costs of the Firm

Austrian Economics OverviewProduction Theory

02/20/2010Mises Media
Presented by Rothbard at New York Polytechnic University in 1972.
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7. Pricing of the Factors of Production

Austrian Economics OverviewPricesProduction Theory

02/20/2010Mises Media
Presented by Rothbard at New York Polytechnic University in 1972.
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8. Labor and Unions

Austrian Economics OverviewInterventionismProduction Theory

02/20/2010Mises Media
Presented by Rothbard at New York Polytechnic University in 1972.
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9. Labor

Austrian Economics OverviewProduction Theory

02/20/2010Mises Media
Presented by Rothbard at New York Polytechnic University in 1972.
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10. Capital, Interest, and Profit

Austrian Economics OverviewCapital and Interest Theory

02/20/2010Mises Media
Presented by Rothbard at New York Polytechnic University in 1972.
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