This is the second course I’ve created for the Ron Paul Homeschool Curriculum. (The first was Western Civilization I, from antiquity to 1492.) This one is a half-year course, so only 90 lessons instead of the usual 180. It’ll be available in a couple weeks.
I’ve been asked if my courses will be available a la carte, apart from the Ron Paul Curriculum. Yes. By later this year I’ll have a site where all of them will be available separately, although — and this is my contractual deal with them — you get a substantial discount if you get them through the RPC.
My next courses will be Western Civilization II and American Constitutionalism (yes, we’ll discuss Spooner).
GOVERNMENT 1B, RON PAUL CURRICULUM
Thomas Woods
Lecture 1: Introduction
Government and a Free Society: Theory
Lecture 2: Natural Rights Theories, I (High Middle Ages to Late Scholastics)
Lecture 3: Natural Rights Theories, II (Locke)
Lecture 4: Natural Rights Theories, III (more recent theories)
Lecture 5: Week 1 Review
Lecture 6: Locke, Brownson and Spooner on Consent
Lecture 7: Nozick, The Tale of the Slave
Lecture 8: Human rights and property rights
Lecture 9: Negative rights and positive rights
Lecture 10: Week 2 Review
Lecture 11: John Rawls
Lecture 12: Critics of Liberalism I
Lecture 13: Critics of Liberalism II
Lecture 14: Critics of Liberalism II
Lecture 15: Week 3 Review
Some Rationales for Government Action
Lecture 16: Public Goods
Lecture 17: The Standard of Living
Lecture 18: Poverty
Lecture 19: Monopoly
Lecture 20: Week 4 Review
Lecture 21: Science
Lecture 22: Inequality
Lecture 23: Development Aid
Lecture 24: Discrimination
Lecture 25: Week 5 Review
Some Problems with Government Action
Lecture 26: The Socialist Calculation Problem
Lecture 27: Working Conditions
Lecture 28: Child Labor
Lecture 29: Labor and Unions
Lecture 30: Week 6 Review
Lecture 31: Health Care
Lecture 32: Antitrust
Lecture 33: Farm Programs
Lecture 34: War and the Economy
Lecture 35: Week 7 Review
Lesson 36: Business Cycles
Lesson 37: Industrial Policy
Lesson 38: Gun Control
Lesson 39: Advertising
Lesson 40: Week 8 review
Lecture 41: Taxation I
Lecture 42: Taxation II
Lecture 43: The Welfare State: Theoretical Issues
Lecture 44: The Welfare State: Practical Issues
Lecture 45: Week 9 Review
Lecture 46: Government, the Market, and the Environment
Lecture 47: “Happiness Research” and Government Intervention
Lecture 48: Government and Money, Part I
Lecture 49: Government and Money, Part II
Lecture 50: Week 10 Review
The Modern State
Lecture 51: The Theory of the Modern State
Lecture 52: American Federalism and the Compact Theory
Lecture 53: Can Political Bodies Be Too Large?
Lecture 54: Decentralization
Lecture 55: Week 11 Review
Government: Various Modern Systems
Lecture 56: Constitutionalism: Purpose
Lecture 57: American Case: Self-Government and the Tenth Amendment
Lecture 58: American Case: Progressives and the “Living, Breathing Document”
Lecture 59: The American States and the Federal Government
Lecture 60: Week 12 Review
Lecture 61: Monarchy
Lecture 62: Social Democracy
Lecture 63: Fascism I
Lecture 64: Fascism II
Lecture 65: Week 13 Review
Lecture 66: Marx I
Lecture 67: Marx II
Lecture 68: Communism I
Lecture 69: Communism II
Lecture 70: Week 14 Review
Lecture 71: Miscellaneous Interventionism: Postwar African Nationalism
Lecture 72: Privatization
Lecture 73: Public Choice I
Lecture 74: Public Choice II
Lecture 75: Week 15 Review
The Lessons of History?
Lecture 76: Industrial Revolution
Lecture 77: New Deal I
Lecture 78: New Deal II
Lecture 79: The Housing Bust of 2008
Lecture 80: Week 16 Review
Unresolved Problems
Lecture 81: Are Voters Informed?
Lecture 82: Is Political Representation Meaningful?
Lecture 83: The Myth of the Rule of Law
Lecture 84: The Incentives of Democracy
Lecture 85: Week 17 Review
The Rothbardian Critique
Lecture 86: The Sweeping Critique: LeFevre
Lecture 87: The Sweeping Critique: Rothbard
Lecture 88: Case Study: The Old West
Conclusions
Lecture 89: Economic Freedom of the World
Lecture 90: What Have We Learned?
I’ll post the first lesson as a sample within the next week.
