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Economic history, Austrian economics, economic thought, and critiques of influential systems.

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Economics

31 lessons

22h 41m

What's Wrong with Textbook Economics

A chapter-by-chapter Austrian critique of textbook economics, examining how human action, entrepreneurship, prices, capital, money, state intervention, growth, trade, employment, inflation, and debt shape economic life.

JM

Jeffrey M. Herbener

Chair and Professor of Economics · Grove City College

Economics

32 lessons

19h 12m

John Maynard Keynes: His System and Its Fallacies

Examine Keynes’s system of GDP accounting, consumption, investment, money, employment, and stimulus, then evaluate Austrian criticisms centered on saving, time preference, capital maintenance, and the structure of production.

GM

G.P. Manish

Visiting Scholar · Free Market Institute, Texas Tech University

Economics

24 lessons

18h 36m

History of Economic Thought, Part II: 20th Century Economics

Trace twentieth-century economics from marginalism and socialist calculation through Keynesian, monetarist, growth, game-theoretic, and public-choice frameworks, comparing how rival traditions explain prices, welfare, institutions, policy, and economic change.

RM

Robert Murphy

Economist and Author · Consulting by RPM

Economics

23 lessons

16h 38m

History of Economic Thought, Part I: Classical Economics and the Marginal Revolution

Trace economic thought from scholastic and classical debates through the marginal revolution, comparing theories of value, exchange, money, trade, production, capital, interest, and market coordination.

RM

Robert Murphy

Economist and Author · Consulting by RPM

Economics

35 lessons

16h 36m

Austrian Economics, Step by Step

A systematic introduction to Austrian economics, connecting purposeful human action and subjective value to prices, production, capital, financial markets, business cycles, fiscal policy, and competing economic systems.

JM

Jeffrey M. Herbener

Chair and Professor of Economics · Grove City College

Economics

10 lessons

12h 44m

American Economic History, Part III

Trace American economic history from the 1920s boom through the post-2008 Federal Reserve regime, examining depression, war, welfare, monetary orders, stagnation, financial crises, and changing living standards.

JM

Jeffrey M. Herbener

Chair and Professor of Economics · Grove City College

Economics

15 lessons

13h 53m

American Economic History, Part II

Trace the transformation of the American economy from the Civil War through 1921 by examining wartime finance, banking panics, industrial development, regulation, living standards, and federal intervention.

JM

Jeffrey M. Herbener

Chair and Professor of Economics · Grove City College

Economics

26 lessons

14h 36m

American Economic History, Part I

Trace American economic development from European colonization through 1860, examining property, trade, production, labor, transportation, fiscal policy, banking, slavery, and recurring crises through an Austrian economic-history framework.

JM

Jeffrey M. Herbener

Chair and Professor of Economics · Grove City College