Rothbard University Reader
Session 1: “Action, Choice, and Value”
Rothbard, Man, Economy, and State, pp. 1-33; Rothbard Reader, pp. 89-96
Session 2: “The Division of Labor”
Rothbard Reader, pp. 97-110; Rothbard, Man, Economy, and State, pp. 95-102; Mises, Human Action, pp. 143-145, 157-164
Session 3: “The Determination of Prices”
Rothbard, Mystery of Banking, pp. 15-28; Rothbard, Man, Economy, and State, pp. 106-121
Session 4: “Labor and Wages”
Rothbard, Man, Economy, and State, pp. 572-588; Shapiro, Foundations of the Market-Price System, pp. 273-278; Taylor, An Introduction to Austrian Economics, pp. 63-73
Session 5: “Capital and Interest”
Read, “I, Pencil”; Rothbard, Economic Controversies, pp. 449-453; Rothbard, Man, Economy, and State; pp. 388-410; 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; Taylor, Introduction to Austrian Economics, pp. 74-89
Session 7: Monopoly and Competition
Armentano, “A Critique of Neoclassical and Austrian Monopoly Theory”; Rothbard Reader, pp. 111-129
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. 907-946; Rothbard Reader, pp. 144-154
Session 10: Calculation and Socialism
Mises, “Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth”
Session 11: Money and Inflation
Rothbard, What Has Government Done to Our Money?, pp. 27-104
Session 12: Banking and the Business Cycle
Rothbard, America’s Great Depression, pp. 3-29; Rothbard, The Case Against the Fed, pp. 29-69
