This is the basic outline of the first third of the course along with links to various resources that you may use.

Basic economic principles

• Economics Primer – by Patrick Heyman; a short introduction to economics.
• Making Economic Sense, by Murray Rothbard (Super easy to read; A little about a lot of topics, including welfare, healthcare, and politics.  If I teach this course again, this will probably be the main textbook.)
• I, Pencil, by Leonard Read (PDF version) (required process paper); short, illuminating essay on the complexity of even very simple things.
• Economics for Real People, by Gene Callahan
• Function of Profit and Loss, Ludwig von Mises

Podcasts:

1. Note: Some of these may be duplicates of other resources.
2. Economics in One Lesson (abridged audio book), by Henry Hazlitt
3. Introduction to Economic Analysis, by Joseph Salerno, this is a fantastic 10 hour introduction to Economics.  I cannot recommend it highly enough.
4. History of Economic Thought Vol I, by Murray Rothbard; stretching from the dawn of time through Adam Smith, this is a true eye opener.  I don’t expect you to read/listen to it all, but chapters of it are very pertinent to our time and to the influence of Christianity on economic thought.  Also chronicles the dawn of modern science and it influence on Economics…and remarkably apropos to nursing and medical research.
5. History of Economic Thought Vol 2, by Murray Rothbard; traces the classical economists through Karl Marx.  You don’t know Marx until your listened/read this.

Role of Law and government in Economics

• The Law. by Frederic Bastiat (PDF version); introduces the Broken Window Fallacy (required process paper)
• Economics in One Lesson, by Henry Hazlitt (PDF version); develops the Broken Window Fallacy (alternative to above for a process paper)
• What Has Government Done to Our Money?, Murray Rothbard
• A Critique of Interventionism, Ludwig von Mises (Mises shows why a mixed economy–partly free, partly socialist–cannot exist.)
• Power and Market, Murray Rothbard (The last part of Man, Economy, and State, and no, you don’t have to read the first thousand pages to understand it.)

Biblical economics

• Introduction to Christian Economics, Gary North
  
• Honest Money, Gary North
• Inherit the Earth, Gary North
• Christians for Freedom, by Alejandro Antonio Chafuen

Trade cycle, capital markets, and Keynesianism

• Fear the Boom and Bust, (Video)
• Austrian Theory of the Business Cycle, (video) Roger Garrison
• Keynesian Predictions vs. American History, (audio) Tom Woods
• Credit Diverts Production, (audio) Tom Woods

Marx and Marxism

• A series of Lectures and Talks on Marxism (audio) (Any one of them would be great.  I highly recommend the ones on Class analysis and Organization of Labor.)
• Requiem for Marx, by Yuri Maltsev (One of the best, most readable books on Marx ever.)
• Marx as Religious Eschatologist, Murray Rothbard
• Karl Marx and the Close of His System, by Eugen von Bohm-Bawerk (The first and one of the best critiques of Marx’s socialism.)

Other Socialist Economies

• Economic Calculation under Socialism, by Ludwig von Mises (The Classic essay proving that rational allocation of resources is impossible under socialism.)
• The End of Socialism and the Economic Calculation Debate Revisited, by Murray Rothbard
• The Bureaucracy Problem, (audio) by David Osterfield
• Quasi-Corporatism: America’s Homegrown Fascism, (audio) by Robert Higgs
• Socialism: Utopia and Reality, (audio) by Yuri N. Maltsev
• Capitalism, Cuba, and Castro, (audio) by Yuri N. Maltsev
• Despotism Loves Company: Stalin and Roosevelt, (audio) by Yuri N. Maltsev
• Development of the Welfare/Warfare State, (audio) by Ralph Raico
• Therapeutic-Welfare State, (audio) by Paul Gottfried
• The Engineer’s Plot (documentary)

The Great Depression

• Great Depression and World War II, Part 1, (audio) by Tom Woods
• Great Depression and World War II, Part 2, (audio) by Tom Woods
• Great Myths of the Great Depression, (audio) by Robert Murphy
• Why You’ve never heard of the Great Depression of 1920, (audio) by Tom Woods
• America’s Great Depression, Murray Rothbard

War

• Myth of War Prosperity, audio by Robert Higgs
• Catastrophic Impact of War on Liberty, (audio) by Robert Higgs
• How Wars Endanger American Freedom, (audio) by John V Denson
• Crisis and Leviathan, by Robert Higgs
• The Bombing of Nagasaki, by

In Defense of Capitalism

• The Calamity of Anticapitalism, (audio) by Tom Woods
• Not Guilty as Charged: The Foolish Attempt to Blame the Free Market for the Economic Collapse, (audio) by Tom Woods

Democracy

• Democracy the God That Failed, by Hans-Hermann Hoppe
• Liberalism and Democracy, Paul Gottfried

Policy Making

• Political Entrepreurship (audio), Thomas DiLorenzo

Ethical theories, professional ethics, rights, liberty

• The Ethics of Liberty, by Murray Rothbard
• That You May Prosper, (pdf) Ray Sutton (Covenantal theological view of the relationship between humans and government.  Part most relevant to the course starts in the fifth part of the book.)
• Social Policy Statement, American Nurses Association
• Nurses Code of Ethics, American Nurses Association

Putting it all together

• The vision of freedom, (audio) Tom Woods (author of Rollback)