Section I: Money

John Maynard Keynes’ Treatise on Money

 

Section II: Production

     Part 1. Market vs. Command economy:  Who makes the decisions about production?

                 A.  Property and who owns it.

                 B.  Efficiency and how to achieve it.

                 C.  Benefit and who deserves it.

 

John Locke: Two Treatise of Government

Karl Marx’s Third Manuscript (on private property)

Thomas Mun’s England’s Treasure by Foreign Trade

Adam Smith’s An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

Thomas Malthus’s Essay on the Principle of Population

David Ricardo’s On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation

Charles Fourier’s “On Economic Liberalism” and “The Rise of Commerce and the Birth of Political Economy”

Karl Marx’s Capital

William Jennings Bryan’s Cross of Gold Speech