Economics Questions

Re: Austrian Textbooks

E. R. Olovetto — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:47:21 GMT

Bob Murphy has a textbook coming out and you can read Jeffrey Tucker's review of it here.

Re: Austrian Textbooks

Torsten — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:24:08 GMT

Conza88:
OP, possibly read the Study Guides for Human Action, and MES?

... Study Guides are helpful to gain good summary on the content of books. For an introductory learning, I'd also suggest the audio files on seminaries and conferences.

Re: Austrian Textbooks

Jonathan M. F. Catalán — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:11:29 GMT

Reisman's Capitalism can be used as a textbook, although information is not presented in small pieces and it is very lengthy.

Re: Austrian Textbooks

JosephBright — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:55:13 GMT

Also, Garrison's Time and Money could be used as a textbook in a macro class.

Re: Austrian Textbooks

DD5 — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:08:13 GMT

Man Economy and State is what you are looking for.

Re: Austrian Textbooks

Conza88 — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:59:03 GMT

Beefheart:
Thats the only book in the Austrian canon that comes close to being a real textbook, I think. It is really very good.

Well Rothbard tried, but failed.. and he ended up with Man, Economy & State with Power and Market.

OP, possibly read the Study Guides for Human Action, and MES?

Re: Austrian Textbooks

Beefheart — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:30:50 GMT

Torsten:

Uriah:
....however all of these have hardly been textbooks. I'm looking for something which is broken down into that usual textbook format, small bite size pieces, building up a picture of how to model the economy/a logic of how things work, graphs showing relationships, and similar....
I think you'd find the following useful:

An Introduction to Economic Reasoning

by David Gordon

I can't think of something else that suits your decription better.

Thats the only book in the Austrian canon that comes close to being a real textbook, I think. It is really very good.

Re: Austrian Textbooks

Torsten — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:19:01 GMT

Uriah:
....however all of these have hardly been textbooks. I'm looking for something which is broken down into that usual textbook format, small bite size pieces, building up a picture of how to model the economy/a logic of how things work, graphs showing relationships, and similar....

I think you'd find the following useful:

An Introduction to Economic Reasoning

by David Gordon

I can't think of something else that suits your decription better.

Austrian Textbooks

Uriah — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:06:11 GMT

Hi guys, I'm sure this topic has been raised a few times, I just can't seem to find a thread on it. I am looking to see if there are any concise Austrian Economics textbooks. I have seen many Austrian books, however all of these have hardly been textbooks. I'm looking for something which is broken down into that usual textbook format, small bite size pieces, building up a picture of how to model the economy/a logic of how things work, graphs showing relationships, and similar. Are there any? Thanks, Uriah