I found this source quite interesting:
http://econfaculty.gmu.edu/bcaplan/e849/pf1.htm
You can go to newer lectures by increasing the number in the url by 1:
E.g. pf2.htm
I plan to read through these. I am currently getting a "mainstream" econ education through AP Econ (though my teacher is an Austrian), so it's nice to see what a non-mainstream class is like.
If you're fortunate enough to have an Austrian teacher, I'm afraid you can't completely say you're getting a "mainstream" education.
Well, he does teach to the book - monopoly, social benefits of externalities, and all.
Haha, more from the econ class on public choice theory. Essentially, explorations in anarchy (with some nice rebuddles for arguments against market anarchy):
http://econfaculty.gmu.edu/bcaplan/e849/pf13.htm
Wheylous:I am currently getting a "mainstream" econ education through AP Econ (though my teacher is an Austrian),
An Austrian teacher in high school! Fantastic!
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under - Mencken
The class is me and this other girl and half the class I'm discussing random econ question with my teacher :P
The funny thing is that once he was teaching about taxes and the property tax, and the girl asks "but how are property taxes fair? Isn't it my land? Why should I pay to own it?" I laughed at the scenario. Her asking two libertarians in the heart of liberal Baltimore about property taxes :P
My teacher, of course, said "well, how would you pay for services? etc" to which he added at the end "though some people believe that you can receive the services through private institutions."
Dude, get to work on that girl. There is a libertarian instinct ready to bloom!
Wheylous, is your teacher an Anarcho-Capitalist? =)
Your teacher is an Austrian? Lucky sod :)
Wheylous:The class is me and this other girl and half the class I'm discussing random econ question with my teacher :P
You have an Austrian teacher and only two students in the class?
No, haha. When I first asked him about learning some Austrian Econ a few moths ago, he's like "yeah, sure!" I mentioned that I visit these forums and he's like "man, there's some radical libertarians there" :P