Lecture 1: Class introduction and overview
Readings:
- Bastiat, Frederic, Essays, What is Seen and Not Seen
- Sections 1-2, paragraphs 1.1-1.36
- Section 6, paragraphs 1.95-1.125
- (LINK: http://www.econlib.org/library/Bastiat/basEss1.html )
- Bastiat, F. Economic Sophisms,
- Chapter 7, “A Candlemakers’ Petition”
- Chapter 8, “Differential Tariffs”
- (LINK: http://www.econlib.org/library/Bastiat/basSoph3.html )
- Read, Leonard, “I, Pencil” (LINK: http://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/rdPncl1.html )
- Video: Pickles (LINK: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50143475n )
- Stocks, the Stock Market, & the Basics of Trading (LINK: https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/082614/how-stock-market-works.asp)
