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Lessons
Why We Need VERY Small government
Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System – Satoshi Nakamoto
Original PDF of Bitcoin – A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System – Satoshi Nakamoto. This is intended to be a “Base 0” Learning Packet from this new Learning Packets can be built.
Schools of Economic Thought
This lesson on the Schools of Economic Thought is additive to the Class on Economic Schools of Thought and helps us make better predictions.
Behavioral Economics
What Is Behavioral Economics? Behavioral economics is, in a way, at the intersection of economics and psychology. In fact, the "behavioral" in behavioral economics can be thought of as the analog of the "behavioral" in behavioral psychology. On one hand, traditional...
Review of Libertarianism and Pollution by Matt Zwolinski
Libertarianism is identified as a political philosophy by its commitment to strong rights of private property, free markets, and strictly limited government. Though this is true to a certain extent of all libertarians, it is most clearly and consistently true of...
Understanding the S-Curve
Exploring the Limits of the Technology S-Curve. Part I: Component Technologies Learning Objective: Understand the Four propositions about the usefulness of the S-curve. This reading is important for 2 reasons. It discusses a very important theoretical point, S-Curves...
Creating a Federal Minimum Wage is a Bad Idea
Creating a Federal Minimum Wage is a Bad Idea for a number of reasons. There is nothing "necessarily" wrong with a community setting a minimum wage. But that minimum wage must be voluntary and limited to that single community. The Congressional Budget Office released...
The Changes That Made California Become a Liberal Fiasco
Is America destined to become like California? Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey created a stir recently when he tweeted out an article calling for an end to bipartisanship and the beginning of nationwide, one-party rule—similar to the Golden State. He called it a “great read.”...
Fractal Economics is the New Economic Paradigm
Fractal Economics is giving economics its "Copernican Moment." Before Copernicus, it was widely believed that everything – including the Sun – revolved around the Earth, rather than the Earth revolving around the Sun. Everyone used Ptolemy's description of the...
There is a role for an Economic “Safety Net”
Conservatives often regard any community provided "safety net" as either morally illegitimate or economically destructive. This lesson will examine why opposition to any safety net is the default Conservative position, and why some Conservatives don't believe this is...
Understanding Libertarian Morality: The Psychological Dispositions of Self-Identified Libertarians
Understanding Libertarian Morality: The Psychological Dispositions of Self-Identified Libertarians https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0042366#authcontrib Abstract Libertarians are an increasingly prominent ideological group in U.S....
Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System – Satoshi Nakamoto
Original PDF of Bitcoin – A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System – Satoshi Nakamoto. This is intended to be a “Base 0” Learning Packet from this new Learning Packets can be built.
Schools of Economic Thought
This lesson on the Schools of Economic Thought is additive to the Class on Economic Schools of Thought and helps us make better predictions.
Behavioral Economics
What Is Behavioral Economics? Behavioral economics is, in a way, at the intersection of economics and psychology. In fact, the "behavioral" in behavioral economics can be thought of as the analog of the "behavioral" in behavioral psychology. On one hand, traditional...
Review of Libertarianism and Pollution by Matt Zwolinski
Libertarianism is identified as a political philosophy by its commitment to strong rights of private property, free markets, and strictly limited government. Though this is true to a certain extent of all libertarians, it is most clearly and consistently true of...
Understanding the S-Curve
Exploring the Limits of the Technology S-Curve. Part I: Component Technologies Learning Objective: Understand the Four propositions about the usefulness of the S-curve. This reading is important for 2 reasons. It discusses a very important theoretical point, S-Curves...
Creating a Federal Minimum Wage is a Bad Idea
Creating a Federal Minimum Wage is a Bad Idea for a number of reasons. There is nothing "necessarily" wrong with a community setting a minimum wage. But that minimum wage must be voluntary and limited to that single community. The Congressional Budget Office released...
The Changes That Made California Become a Liberal Fiasco
Is America destined to become like California? Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey created a stir recently when he tweeted out an article calling for an end to bipartisanship and the beginning of nationwide, one-party rule—similar to the Golden State. He called it a “great read.”...
Fractal Economics is the New Economic Paradigm
Fractal Economics is giving economics its "Copernican Moment." Before Copernicus, it was widely believed that everything – including the Sun – revolved around the Earth, rather than the Earth revolving around the Sun. Everyone used Ptolemy's description of the...
There is a role for an Economic “Safety Net”
Conservatives often regard any community provided "safety net" as either morally illegitimate or economically destructive. This lesson will examine why opposition to any safety net is the default Conservative position, and why some Conservatives don't believe this is...
Understanding Libertarian Morality: The Psychological Dispositions of Self-Identified Libertarians
Understanding Libertarian Morality: The Psychological Dispositions of Self-Identified Libertarians https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0042366#authcontrib Abstract Libertarians are an increasingly prominent ideological group in U.S....
F. A. Hayek Lessons
Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System – Satoshi Nakamoto
Original PDF of Bitcoin – A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System – Satoshi Nakamoto. This is intended to be a “Base 0” Learning Packet from this new Learning Packets can be built.
Schools of Economic Thought
This lesson on the Schools of Economic Thought is additive to the Class on Economic Schools of Thought and helps us make better predictions.
Behavioral Economics
What Is Behavioral Economics? Behavioral economics is, in a way, at the intersection of economics and psychology. In fact, the "behavioral" in behavioral economics can be thought of as the analog of the "behavioral" in behavioral psychology. On one hand, traditional...
Review of Libertarianism and Pollution by Matt Zwolinski
Libertarianism is identified as a political philosophy by its commitment to strong rights of private property, free markets, and strictly limited government. Though this is true to a certain extent of all libertarians, it is most clearly and consistently true of...
Understanding the S-Curve
Exploring the Limits of the Technology S-Curve. Part I: Component Technologies Learning Objective: Understand the Four propositions about the usefulness of the S-curve. This reading is important for 2 reasons. It discusses a very important theoretical point, S-Curves...
Creating a Federal Minimum Wage is a Bad Idea
Creating a Federal Minimum Wage is a Bad Idea for a number of reasons. There is nothing "necessarily" wrong with a community setting a minimum wage. But that minimum wage must be voluntary and limited to that single community. The Congressional Budget Office released...
The Changes That Made California Become a Liberal Fiasco
Is America destined to become like California? Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey created a stir recently when he tweeted out an article calling for an end to bipartisanship and the beginning of nationwide, one-party rule—similar to the Golden State. He called it a “great read.”...
Fractal Economics is the New Economic Paradigm
Fractal Economics is giving economics its "Copernican Moment." Before Copernicus, it was widely believed that everything – including the Sun – revolved around the Earth, rather than the Earth revolving around the Sun. Everyone used Ptolemy's description of the...
There is a role for an Economic “Safety Net”
Conservatives often regard any community provided "safety net" as either morally illegitimate or economically destructive. This lesson will examine why opposition to any safety net is the default Conservative position, and why some Conservatives don't believe this is...
Understanding Libertarian Morality: The Psychological Dispositions of Self-Identified Libertarians
Understanding Libertarian Morality: The Psychological Dispositions of Self-Identified Libertarians https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0042366#authcontrib Abstract Libertarians are an increasingly prominent ideological group in U.S....
Political Science Lessons
Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System – Satoshi Nakamoto
Original PDF of Bitcoin – A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System – Satoshi Nakamoto. This is intended to be a “Base 0” Learning Packet from this new Learning Packets can be built.
Schools of Economic Thought
This lesson on the Schools of Economic Thought is additive to the Class on Economic Schools of Thought and helps us make better predictions.
Behavioral Economics
What Is Behavioral Economics? Behavioral economics is, in a way, at the intersection of economics and psychology. In fact, the "behavioral" in behavioral economics can be thought of as the analog of the "behavioral" in behavioral psychology. On one hand, traditional...
Review of Libertarianism and Pollution by Matt Zwolinski
Libertarianism is identified as a political philosophy by its commitment to strong rights of private property, free markets, and strictly limited government. Though this is true to a certain extent of all libertarians, it is most clearly and consistently true of...
Understanding the S-Curve
Exploring the Limits of the Technology S-Curve. Part I: Component Technologies Learning Objective: Understand the Four propositions about the usefulness of the S-curve. This reading is important for 2 reasons. It discusses a very important theoretical point, S-Curves...
Creating a Federal Minimum Wage is a Bad Idea
Creating a Federal Minimum Wage is a Bad Idea for a number of reasons. There is nothing "necessarily" wrong with a community setting a minimum wage. But that minimum wage must be voluntary and limited to that single community. The Congressional Budget Office released...
The Changes That Made California Become a Liberal Fiasco
Is America destined to become like California? Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey created a stir recently when he tweeted out an article calling for an end to bipartisanship and the beginning of nationwide, one-party rule—similar to the Golden State. He called it a “great read.”...
Fractal Economics is the New Economic Paradigm
Fractal Economics is giving economics its "Copernican Moment." Before Copernicus, it was widely believed that everything – including the Sun – revolved around the Earth, rather than the Earth revolving around the Sun. Everyone used Ptolemy's description of the...
There is a role for an Economic “Safety Net”
Conservatives often regard any community provided "safety net" as either morally illegitimate or economically destructive. This lesson will examine why opposition to any safety net is the default Conservative position, and why some Conservatives don't believe this is...
Understanding Libertarian Morality: The Psychological Dispositions of Self-Identified Libertarians
Understanding Libertarian Morality: The Psychological Dispositions of Self-Identified Libertarians https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0042366#authcontrib Abstract Libertarians are an increasingly prominent ideological group in U.S....
Raw Data
Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System – Satoshi Nakamoto
Original PDF of Bitcoin – A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System – Satoshi Nakamoto. This is intended to be a “Base 0” Learning Packet from this new Learning Packets can be built.
Schools of Economic Thought
This lesson on the Schools of Economic Thought is additive to the Class on Economic Schools of Thought and helps us make better predictions.
Behavioral Economics
What Is Behavioral Economics? Behavioral economics is, in a way, at the intersection of economics and psychology. In fact, the "behavioral" in behavioral economics can be thought of as the analog of the "behavioral" in behavioral psychology. On one hand, traditional...
Review of Libertarianism and Pollution by Matt Zwolinski
Libertarianism is identified as a political philosophy by its commitment to strong rights of private property, free markets, and strictly limited government. Though this is true to a certain extent of all libertarians, it is most clearly and consistently true of...
Economics
Quotes
Adam Smith – Self Interest
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities, but...
Adam Smith – Invisible Hand
From An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Book IV, Chap. 2 by Adam Smith. By preferring the support of domestic to that of foreign industry, he intends only his own security; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce...
Adam Smith – Effort of Men Can Overcome the Abuses of Government
“The uniform, constant and uninterrupted effort of every man to better his condition … is frequently powerful enough to maintain the natural progress of things toward improvement, in spite both of the extravagance of government, and of the greatest errors of...
Adam Smith – All Quotes
“No human wisdom or knowledge could ever be sufficient [for] the duty of superintending the industry of private people..." “[Governments are] ...without exception, the greatest spendthrifts in the society.” “The agents of [government] regard the wealth of their master...
Glossary/Definitions
Aggregate Demand
Aggregate demand is an economic measurement of the total amount of demand...
Fractal Politics 2
Fractal Politics The evolution of digital technologies and the evolution...
12 Economic Concepts
Twelve Economic Concepts Everyone Should Know 1. Gains from trade: In any...