If you are like me, you love Austrian economics — the logic, the rigor, the explanatory power. But we all know that this is not the usual approach to economics taken at the university level. If you can’t attend the Mises University, where can you go to study the subject systematically? Over the summer, I worked with the staff at the Mises Institute to find an answer to this problem.
The Home Study Course is designed to give as much as the student wishes to take out of it. The novice can listen to the lectures and skip the more difficult readings, while the decades-long enthusiast can boggle over the advanced journal articles and the (few) tough study questions. But regardless of one’s background, the dedicated student can, with the help of the Mises Institute Home Study Course in Austrian Economics, truly become an expert in Austrian economics, and gain a deep understanding of the Austrian influence on related disciplines in the social sciences.
Addendum: I’m also excited about being able to offer online tutoring of the coursework, thanks to remarkable technological innovations that provide the closest possible intellectual engagement with the students. For more information, see the Mises Classroom.
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I’m sure this will be a great help to a lot of people just starting out. I got introduced to Austrian economics five months ago, reading “what has government done to our money”, which was a prefect introduction to the monetary theory I was interested in. Since then I read a dozen books from this site, but I had to find my way by myself, which was not that hard since the site is very accessible. But of cousre this study guide will make it even easier and better and will probably get a lot of new people into the movement.
My introduction to free-market economics and the works of Ludwig von Mises was achieved through learn-at-your-own-pace homeschooling. This is a marked departure from how economics is taught in North American colleges and universities. If Bob’s course can be undertaken in a learn-at-your-own-pace homeschooling environment, the program would certainly have a profound influence on the future of the development of ideas in economics.
Harry Valentine
Good. Glad to see you doing this. This is a major accomplishment for the Mises Institute. One of the best introductions to libertarianism for over a decade was Robert LeFevre’s “Fundamentals of Liberty,” his course on the philosophy of freedom. It was delivered by him in a series of lectures throughout the country, as well as at the Freedom School and Rampart College. The course, which was later published in book form (I prepared the index), was finely honed into its form over years of lecturing by LeFevre, presenting a consistent application of both libertarianism and austrian economic theory. It became available for home study and was quite influential.
I wish you well in the course, and hope that it becomes one of your centerpieces.
Just a thought.
Just Ken
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http://classicalliberalism.blogspot.com/
Interested. Do you accept overseas enrollments?
Can this program be subscribed to in “easy” installments?
Thank you, FS
I’m currently starting on it. I suggest though that a new version of this home study course might be produced. And in addition to audio, include also DVD videos if possible.
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