Additional readings and podcasts

Part 1

• Censoring Pleas for Help by Dwight Lee (Audio, 9:07)
• Creating Jobs vs. Creating Wealth by Dwight Lee (Audio, 8:48)
• Comparative Advantage by Dwight Lee (Audio, 8:59)
• Demand and Supply by Dwight Lee (Audio, 8:18)
• Energy Production versus Conservation by Dwight Lee (Audio, 8:42)
• Greed is Not Good, and It’s Not Capitalism by Jay Richards (No audio)
• How to Be a Good Steward of Energy and the Environment by Jay Richards (No audio)
• It’s the Margin that Counts by Dwight Lee (Audio, 8:07)
• Markets and Marginalism by Dwight Lee (Audio, 7:50)
• More on Marginalism by Dwight Lee (Audio, 8:33)
• Oil Drilling in a Wildlife Refuge by Pamela S. Snyder and Jane S. Shaw (No audio)
• Opportunities and Costs by Dwight Lee (Audio, 8:37)
• Opportunity Costs and Hidden Inventions by Dwight Lee (Audio, 9:07)
• Politics and Foreign Trade by Dwight Lee (Audio, 7:46)
• The Power of Incentives by Dwight Lee (Audio, 8:06)
• Reflections on the Minimum Wage and Poverty by Bishop Harry R. Jackson, Jr. (No audio)
• Road Not Taken by Robert Frost (Audio, 1:43)
• I, Pencil by Leonard Read (Audio, 16:44)
• Running Out of Agricultural Land by Dwight Lee (Audio, 8:48)
• Sacrificing Lives for Profits by Dwight Lee (Audio, 8:32)
• Social Cooperation and the Marketplace by Dwight Lee (Audio, 8:25)
• The Special Case of Health Insurance by William Wood (No audio)
• Specialization and Wealth by Dwight Lee (Audio, 9:07)
• Unfair Competition with the Sun is a condensed, CSE version of The Petition of the Candlestick Makers by Frederic Bastiat (Audio, 7:53)
• What is Seen and What Is Not Seen by Frederic Bastiat (Audio, 18:21)

Bastiat was an economist who was also a member of the French parliament in the middle of the nineteenth century. Interestingly, the issues he raises are as valid today as they were over 150 years ago. Reference: Bastiat, Frederic, Selected Essays on Political Economy. The Foundation for Economic Education, Inc. 1995. Trans. Seymour Cain. Ed. George B. de Huszar. Library of Economics and Liberty. 19 November 2014.

Part 2

• Are We Running Out of Resources? by James Gwartney, Richard Stroup, Russell Sobel, and David Macpherson (No audio)
• Changes in Poverty Rates by Joseph Connors and James D. Gwartney (No audio)
• Declining Economic Freedom of the United States by James Gwartney, Robert Lawson, and Joshua Hall (No audio)
• Do Big Box Retailers Harm the Quality of Life? by Russell Roberts (Audio, 12:12)
• Economic Advantages of a Commitment to Liberty by Dwight Lee (Audio, 9:03)
• Economic Freedom: The Path to Flourishing for the Poor by Anne Bradley and Joseph Connors (No audio)

Part 3

• Cronyism, Economic Freedom, and Human Flourishing by Joseph Connors (No audio)
• Market Failure -The Economics of by James Gwartney and Tawni Hunt Ferrarini (Audio, 17:17)
• Markets and Freedom by Dwight Lee (Audio, 8:02)
• Not Yours to Give by Edward Ellis (Audio, 21:57)
• Private Property and Opportunity Costs by Dwight Lee (Audio, 8:22)
• Rule of Law: Economic Prosperity Requires the Rule of Law by J. Kenneth Blackwell (No audio)

Part 4

• Building Wealth Over Time by John Morton, Scott Niederjohn, and Signè Thomas (No audio)
• Career Planning for a Satisfying Job by Scott Niederjohn (No audio)
• The Difference One Can Make: The Importance of Character by Lawrence W. Reed and Benjamin D. Stafford (Audio, 25:03)
• The Difference One Can Make: The Story of Nicholas Winton by Lawrence W. Reed and Benjamin D. Stafford (Audio, 15:21)
• Choosing a College: Does It Pay to Go to an Elite University? by James Gwartney, Richard Stroup, Russell Sobel, and David Macpherson (No audio)
• Elite Colleges Don’t Buy Happiness for Graduates by Douglas Belkin (No audio)
• A Formula for Happiness by Arthur C. Brooks (No audio)
• Free Exchange: Morality and Economic Freedom by Jim Daly with Glenn T. Stanton (No audio)
• Insurance Markets and Your Insurance Strategy by William C. Wood (No audio)
• Invest in Education by Scott Niederjohn (No audio)
• The Intellectual Defense of Liberty by Walter Williams (No audio)
• Tracking Your Credit History by Mark Schug (No audio)
• Tragedy Made Simple: Where Have All the Fishes Gone? by William J. Bennetta (No audio)
• What Is Risk and How Can We Manage It? by William C. Wood (No audio)
• What Causes Poverty in America? by Jay Richards (No audio)
• What Is Credit? by Mark Schug (No audio)
• What’s Wrong with Inequality? by Elise Amyx and Jay Richards (No audio)
• Why Giving Matters by Arthur C. Brooks (No audio)
• Why Save? by John Morton and Signè Thomas (No audio)
• Why Welfare Should Respect the Dignity of Work by Hugh Whelchel and Anne Rathbone Bradley (No audio)

NOTE: This page is updated May of each year.