Free Market Economics: A Syllabus

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface

Part 1: Basics

1. General Introduction

2. What is Economics?

3. The Nature of the Individual—Values and Actions

4. Private Property and Exchange

5. Social Cooperation and The Market

Part 2: Economic Principles

6. Prices, Pricing

7. Savings, Tools and Production

8. The Entrepreneur and The Profit and Loss System

9. Labor, Wages and Employment

10. Money, Credit and Banking: Barter vs. Monetary Transactions

11. Competition, “Big Business,” and Monopoly

12. Interregional Trade

Part 3: Historical And Political Aspects

13. History of Economic Thought

14. Capitalism, The Hampered Market Economy, Socialism (Communism)

15. Economic History

16. Summary

Glossary

Index

Activities Index