Rothbard University Reader

All Readings

Session 1: “Action, Choice, and Value”
Rothbard, Rothbard Reader, pp. 89-96

Session 2: “The Division of Labor”
Rothbard, Man, Economy, and State, pp. 95-102

Session 3: “The Determination of Prices”
Rothbard, Mystery of Banking, pp. 15-28

Session 4: “Labor and Wages”
Rothbard, Man, Economy, and State, pp. 572-588

Session 5: “Capital and Interest”
Read, “I, Pencil”; Salerno, “Does the Concept of Secular Growth Have a Place in Capital-Based Economics?”, pp. 46-48

Session 6: Profit, Loss, and Entrepreneurship
Mises, Profit and Loss, pp. 7-31

Session 7: Monopoly and Competition
Armentano, “A Critique of Neoclassical and Austrian Monopoly Theory

Session 8: Price Controls
Rothbard, Man, Economy, and State, pp. 892-898; Rothbard Reader, pp. 134-143

Session 9: Government Spending and Taxation
Rothbard, Man, Economy, and State, pp. 907-919

Session 10: Calculation and Socialism
Mises, Part II, Section 1, Chapter 1, “The Nature of Economic Activity,” in Socialism, pp. 111-127

Session 11: Money and Inflation
Rothbard, What Has Government Done to Our Money?, pp. 27-53

Session 12: Banking and the Business Cycle
Rothbard, America’s Great Depression, pp. 3-29; Rothbard, The Case Against the Fed, pp. 29-40, 45-54, 62-69