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  • Cantillon's Circular Flow Model

  • Classical Political Economy

  • The Logic of Adam Smith's System

• Readings (click to expand)

  • Boettke, "Why Read the Classics in Economics?"

  • Long, "Austro-Libertarian Themes in Early Confucianism"

  • Gomez-Zimmerman, "The Capitalist Structures of Hinduism"

  • "Interview with Rabbi Sacks: Judaism's Religious Vision and the Capitalist Ethic"

  • Genesis 3:1-24

  • Aiken, "The Doctrine of the Fathers of the Church on the Right of Private Property"

  • Ahmad, "Islam and Markets"

  • Dougherty, "Augustine and Aquinas on Property Ownership"

  • De Soto, “Juan de Mariana: The Influence of the Spanish Scholastics”

  • Child, "Brief Observations Concerning Trade and Interest of Money"

  • Law, "Money and Trade Consider'd with a Proposal for Supplying the Nation with Money"

  • North, "Discourses Upon Trade"

  • Vaughn, “John Locke and the Labor Theory of Value”

  • Himma, “Natural Law”

  • Cantillon, “Essay on the Nature of Commerce in General”

  • Du Pont de Nemours, “On the Origin and Progress of a New Science"

  • Rothbard, “A.R.J. Turgot: Brief, Lucid, and Brilliant"

  • Smith, excerpt from Lectures on Jurisprudence

  • Anon., "Biography of Adam Smith (1723-1790)"

  • West, “Essay on the Application of Capital to Land"

  • Bailey, “A Dissertation on the Nature, Measure, and Causes of Value"

  • Lloyd, “The Notion of Value"

  • Bastiat, “What is Seen and What is Not Seen"

  • Bastiat, “A Petition"

  • Molinari, “The Production of Security"

  • Sechrest, “Jean-Baptiste Say: Neglected Champion of Laissez Faire"

  • DiLorenzo, “Frederic Bastiat: Between the French and Marginalist Revolutions"

  • Hart, “Gustave de Molinari and the Anti-Statist Liberal Tradition: Part I, Part II, and Part III"

  • Galles, "Remembering Gustave de Molinari"

  • Mill, excerpt from Commerce Defended

  • Say, “Letters to Mr. Thomas Robert Malthus on Political Economy and Stagnation of Commerce”

  • Malthus, “Observations on the Effects of the Corn Laws”

  • Malthus, “The Grounds of an Opinion on the Policy of Restricting the Importation of Foreign Corn”

  • Ricardo, “An Essay on the Influence of a low Price of Corn on the Profits of Stock”

  • Elliott, “John Bright: Voice of Victorian Liberalism”

  • Anon., "Cobden's Biography"

  • Spall, “Landlordism and Liberty: Aristocratic Misrule and the Anti-Corn-Law League”

  • Tooke, “An Inquiry into the Currency Principle”

  • Levy and Peart, “The Secret History of the Dismal Science, Parts 1-6”

  • Bohm-Bawerk, “Karl Marx and the Close of His System”

  • Engels, “Karl Marx”

  • Rothbard, “Karl Marx: Communist as Religious Eschatologist”

  • Mill, “Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy"

  • Paul, “J.S.Mill: The Utilitarian Influence in the Demise of Laissez Faire"

  • Mosselmans, “The Omitted Mathematics of Hans von Mangoldt”

  • Humphrey, “Marshallian Cross Diagrams and Their Uses before Alfred Marshall: The Origins of Supply and Demand Geomoetry”

  • Salerno, “Carl Menger: The Founder of the Austrian School”

  • Marshall, “On Rent”

  • Clark, “The Origin of Interest”

  • Fetter, “Recent Discussion of the Capital Concept”

  • Mises, “A Critique of Bohm-Bawerk’s Reasoning in Support of his Time Preference Theory“

  • Garrison, “Biography of Eugen von Bohm-Bawerk”

  • Garrison, “Austrian Capital Theory: The Early Controversies“

  • Garrison, “Reflections on Reswitching and Roundaboutness“

  • Humphrey, "Fisher and Wicksell on the Quantity Theory"

  • Mises, "Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth"

  • Hayek, "The Use of Knowledge in Society"

  • Rothbard, "The End of Socialism and the Calculation Debate Revisited"

  • Mises, "Interest, Credit Expansion, and the Trade Cycle"

  • Garrison, "Overconsumption and Forced Saving in the Mises-Hayek Theory of the Business Cycle"

  • Rothbard, "The Laissez Faire Radical: A Quest for the Historical Mises"

  • Klein, "Biography F.A. Hayek (1899-1992)"

  • Reich, "John Maynard Keynes"

  • Garrison, "Keynes was a Keynesian"

  • Friedman, "Inflation and Unemployment"

  • Friedman, "Autobiography"

  • Garrison, "Is Milton Friedman a Keynesian?"

  • Buchanan, "The Constitution of Economic Policy"

  • Lucas, "Monetary Neutrality"

  • Anon., "Finn Kydland and Edward Prescott's Contribution to Dynamic Macroeconomics"

  • Hayek, "Competition as a Discovery Procedure"

  • Kirzner, "Competition, Regulation, and the Market Process"

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