Economics
The following courses will help you articulate how the only current social and economic system that aligns itself with the combined human spirits of achievement, ambition, self-improvement, individualism, self-esteem, and initiative is Capitalism.
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Did FDR End or Extend the Depression?
Instructor: Lee Ohanian
President Franklin Roosevelt's "New Deal," has long been credited with rescuing the nation from the Great Depression of the 1930's. Lee Ohanian, Professor of Economics at UCLA, challenges this conventional wisdom in a provocative examination of FDR's economic policies.
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Free Market Morality
Instructor: Walter Williams
Is the free market morally superior or inferior to other economic systems? If it's morally superior, what makes it so? If it's morally inferior, do we need greater government control of the economy? Walter Williams, renowned Professor of Economics at George Mason University, faces these questions head on and with bracing clarity.
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Do High Taxes Raise More Money?
Instructor: Tim Groseclose
If you raise taxes does it automatically follow that you'll raise more revenue? Is there point at which tax rates become counterproductive? UCLA Economics professor, Tim Groseclose, answers these questions and poses some fascinating new ones.
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The Moral Promise of Free Enterprise
Instructor: Arthur Brooks
The words happiness and free enterprise don't usually appear in the same sentence. But Arthur Brooks, President of the American Enterprise Institute, shows that the two are intimately and profoundly connected. The free enterprise system not only creates wealth, it creates the best chance we have to achieve personal satisfaction.
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The Power of Profit
Instructor: Walter Williams
Did you ever wonder why anything gets anywhere? How potatoes from Idaho, for example, end up in a supermarket in NYC? Acclaimed economist, Walter Williams, explains why it all depends on one thing -- profit.
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