Course readings (most are password-protected, if you do not remember the password, contact me by e-mail)
Aristotle, Politics and Nichomachean Ethics, fragments
John Broome, Ethics out of economics. Cambridge University Press, 1991, read only paragraphs 2.1-2.2.
Tomas Sedlacek, Economics of Good and Evil. The Quest for Economic Meaning from Gilgamesh to Wall Street, Oxford University Press, 2011, p. 117-123.
Thomas Mun, England's Treasure by Foreign Trade.
Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, skip Book I chapters VI-VII, pp. 162-165 and Book IV chapter VIII-IX, pp. 173-179.
Thomas Robert Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population.
Jean Baptiste Say, A Treatise on Political Economy.
John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy, skip Books II-III, pp. 335-349.
Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels The Communist Manifesto, present only parts I-II, pp. 14-27.
Alfred Marshall, Principles of Economics, skip Book IV, pp. 505-509.
Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, cha. 5 Ascetism and the Spirit of Capitalism
Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class, skip chapters 2 and 5, pp. 613-617, 641-645)
John Maynard Keynes, The End of 'Laissez Faire', and The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, cha. 24
Milton and Rose Friedman, Free to choose, chapter 1, The power of the market
Walter Block, Is Milton Friedman a Libertarian?, Laissez Faire, No. 32 (March 2010): 9-22
Friedrich August von Hayek, The Use of Knowledge in Society, American Economic Review, 1945
Douglass C. North, Institutions, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1991