Understanding Economics    

Lessons

1.  The Basics: Economic Definitions 
2.  The Problem of Poverty: Are We Unable to Produce
   Enough for All? 
3.  Wealth Distribution: Who Decides? 
4.  The Dynamics of Wealth Distribution:
   Effects of Technology and Trade 
5.  The Dog in the Manger: What Keeps the Economy
   from Fulfilling Its Potential? 
6.  Economics of Booms and Busts 
7.  The Remedy; Its Justice 
8.  Fixing our Backwards Tax System 
9.  Envisioning a Just and Prosperous Society 
10.  The Law of Human Progress 

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Readings for This Course

•  Why Henry George? Why this course? 
•  Progress and Poverty 
•  Economic Definitions 
•  Sorting Exercise for Economic Definitions 
•  The Population Question 
•  Capital, Interest and Profits 
•  The Law of Rent 
•  A Closer Look at the Law of Rent 
•  The Dog in the Manger 
•  The Boom/Bust Cycle 
•  Rent and Selling Price 
•  Henry George's Remedy 
•  The Third Way 
•  Taxes: What Are They Good For? 
•  A note on the authorship of these readings 

More Great Reads

•  Georgist Journal archives 
•  The Land Question 
•  The Earth Imperative 
•  The Life of Henry George by Henry George, Jr. 
•  Who Was Henry George? by Agnes de Mille 
•  "Archimedes" by Mark Twain 
•  The Real Origin of Monopoly 
•  Madsen abridgement of Progress and Poverty 
•  Unabridged Progress and Poverty, rtf file 
•  Papers from the HGI's Georgist Education Conference 
•  Lindy Davies's essays 

Our Other Courses

• Applied Economics: Globalization and Trade
•  Economic Science 
•  Liberation Theology and Land Reform 
•  Comprender la Economía 

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