In this fifth video session, Jeffrey Tucker is joined by Walter Block to discuss Chapters 9 and 10 of the book. Block holds the Harold E. Wirth Eminent Scholar Endowed Chair in Economics at the J. A. Butt School of Business at Loyola University New Orleans.
Course Profile
- EST. TIME 2 hrs
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SUBJECT
Economics and Enterprise
- POINTS 1000
course outline
- Introduction
- The Broken Window and The Blessings of Destruction
- Public Works Mean Taxes and Taxes Discourage Production
- Abundant Credit Diverts Production
- The Curse of Machinery and Spread-the-Work Schemes
- Disbanding Troops and Bureaucrats and The Fetish of Full Employment
- Who's Protected By Tariffs? and The Drive for Exports
- Parity Prices and Saving the X Industry
- How The Price System Works and Stabilizing Commodities
- Minimum Wage Laws and Do Unions Really Raise Wages?
- The Function of Profits and The Mirage of Inflation
- The Assault on Savings
- Summary
- Resources for Further Study
- Survey
- Assessment
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