My Government Course for the Ron Paul Homeschool Curriculum
January 6, 2014
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[amazon asin=1455577170&template=*lrc ad (right)]
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 |
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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 |
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The Economics of Addiction