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Audios, Podcasts, and Readings

Sep 7, 1995

Oil Drilling in a Wildlife Refuge? Isn't That Harmful to the Environment?

CSE 2.1 Legal system: The foundation for economic progress is a legal system that protects privately owned property and enforces contracts in an even-handed manner. (There is no audio for this reading.) 

Jun 1, 1999

Private Property and Opportunity Costs

CSE 2.1 Legal system: The foundation for economic progress is a legal system that protects privately owned property and enforces contracts in an evenhanded manner.

Jul 1, 2000

Running Out of Agricultural Land

CSE 2.2 Competitive markets: Competition promotes the efficient use of resources and provides the incentive for innovative improvements.

Mar 19, 2023

Do Big Box Retailers Harm the Quality of Life?

CSE 2.2 Competitive markets: Competition promotes the efficient use of resources and provides the incentive for innovative improvements.

Jul 1, 1999

Censoring Pleas for Help

CSE 2.3 Minimal regulation: Regulations that increase market competitiveness or support voluntary exchange spur progress.

Mar 20, 2023

Declining Economic Freedom of the United States

  • CSE 2.3 Minimal regulation: Regulations that increase market competitiveness or support voluntary exchange spur progress.

  • CSE 2.1 Competitive markets: Competition promotes the efficient use of resources and provides the incentive for innovative improvements.

  • CSE 2.7 Free trade: People achieve higher incomes when they are free to trade with individuals in other countries. 

(There is no audio for this reading.) 

Dec 31, 2010

Unfair Competition with the Sun (Abbreviated)

CSE 2.7 Free trade: People achieve higher incomes when they are free to trade with individuals in other countries. 

Mar 21, 2023

Changes in Poverty RatesĀ 

  • CSE 2.7 Free trade: People achieve higher incomes when they are free to trade with individuals in other countries. 

  • CSE 2.1 Competitive markets: Competition promotes the efficient use of resources and provides the incentive for innovative improvements.

(There is no audio for this reading.) 

Feb 17, 2021

Markets and Marginalism

  • CSE 2.7 Free trade: People achieve higher incomes when they are free to trade with individuals in other countries. 

  • CSE 2.1 Competitive markets: Competition promotes the efficient use of resources and provides the incentive for innovative improvements.

(This reading and audio set is also featured in CSE 1.3.) 

Sep 1, 1998

Markets and Freedom

CSE 2.7 Free trade: People achieve higher incomes when they are free to trade with individuals in other countries.

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