Economics in One Lesson

For Tuesday 1/8
Chapter 1 The Lesson
Chapter 2 The Broken Window
Chapter 3 The Blessings of Destruction
Chapter 4 Public Works Mean Taxes
Chapter 5 Taxes Discourage Production
Chapter 6 Credit Diverts Production

Tuesday 1/15 Make sure, if you are reading these online, that you keep scrolling until the chapter ends and hit next for each section of the chapter.
Chapter7 The Curse of Machinery
Chapter 8 Spread-the-Work Schemes
Chapter 9 Disbanding Troops and Bureaucrats
Chapter 10 The Fetish of Full Employment
Chapter 11 Who’s “Protected” by Tariffs?
Chapter 12 The Drive for Exports

Tuesday 1/22
Chapter 13 “Parity” Prices
Chapter 14 Saving the X Industry
Chapter 15 How the Price System Works
Chapter 16 “Stabilizing” Commodities
Chapter 17 Government Price-Fixing
Chapter 18 What Rent Control Does

Tuesday 1/29
Chapter 19 Minimum Wage Laws
Chapter 20 Do Unions Really Raise Wages
Chapter 21 “Enough to Buy Back the Product”
Chapter 22 The Function of Profits
Chapter 23 The Mirage of Inflation
Chapter 24 The Assault on Saving


Chapter 25 The Lesson Restated
Chapter 26 The Lesson after Thirty Years
Chapter 27 A Note on Books
End Notes

I am thinking about trying a Mr Linky each week so that everyone who participates can easily link to their post. This would look like the Saturday Review of Books at Semicolon

Dana says:

There are 24 short chapters in between the Main Lesson and the Lesson Revisited. I propose reading six per week and hope to share how I have implemented the application(s) or had my thinking realigned.

Dana also has a post here on how to include your children in the study. I hope I can incorporate my little boys.

You do not have to make a commitment to this. You can join or not join during any of the weeks. Hopefully when we are finished we will have solved many of the world’s problems ;)

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