Why Capitalism?

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Just about everyone is drawn to the libertarian respect for property rights, yet most people draw back from fully embracing property rights and taking libertarianism to its fulfillment.

Lecture topics

  • Private Law I
  • Private Law II
  • Private Defense
  • Common Objections
  • Historical Applications
  • How We Get There

Instructor

David Gordon is Senior Fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute. He was educated at UCLA, where he earned his PhD in history. He is the author of Resurrecting Economics, An Introduction to Economic ReasoningAn Austro-Libertarian View (three volumes), and Resurrecting Marx He is also editor of Secession, State, and Liberty and coeditor of H.B. Acton’s Morals of Markets and Other Essays.

Dr. Gordon is the editor of the  Mises Review and the Journal of Libertarian Studies, and a contributor to such journals as Analysis, the International Philosophic Quarterly, the Philosophical Quarterly, the Journal of Libertarian Studies, and the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics.

Course Content

Why Capitalism? – Lecture 1 – Policy & Poverty 1 Quiz
Why Capitalism? – Lecture 2 – Price System & Freedom 1 Quiz
Why Capitalism? – Lecture 3 – Profit and Loss 1 Quiz
Why Capitalism? – Lecture 4 – History and Capital 1 Quiz
Why Capitalism? – Lecture 5 – Aid and Foreign Investment 1 Quiz