Economics in One Lesson (Auburn 2010)

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Business and Economic Change

Free MarketsAustrian Economics Overview

11/20/2010Mises Media
Profit and loss is the heart of business and economic change. Entrepreneurs drive the market at every level, predicting future wants and taking risks with their property. Earning profits is never guaranteed.
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How to Improve Society

Free MarketsAustrian Economics Overview

11/20/2010Mises Media
The Gilded Age ushered in industrial leaders in capitalistic achievement. Success in the world of commerce reflected certain characteristics.
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Why Does Economics Matter?

Austrian Economics Overview

11/20/2010Mises Media
Austrian economists differ from mainstream economists mainly in this way: they do not rely on mathematical models, but on understanding what causes success or failure in the real world. Opportunity costs determine the choices people make.
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Modern Banking: Creating Booms and Busts

Booms and BustsMoney and Banks

11/20/2010Mises Media
Deposit banking rests on the bank honoring property rights. Loan banking rests on making good loans that will pay off. But when loan banking and deposit banking merged, the temptation to loan out much more than was actually in the bank arose.
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The Division of Labor

Austrian Economics Overview

11/20/2010Mises Media
Instead of each person doing all of the work creating what he needs and wants, dividing the labor amongst all of us into specialties is clearly superior by increasing the productivity of labor.
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