Turning Point Academy has partnered with David Bahnsen to create a one-semester, comprehensive, biblical, FREE economics curriculum for high school students.
Students will read from:
There’s No Free Lunch: 250 Economic Truths – David L. Bahnsen
Foundations for a Free and Virtuous Society – Dylan Pahman
Economics in One Lesson – Henry Hazlitt
I, Pencil – Leonard Reed
This course covers topics such as:
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Economy and Human Flourishing
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First Principles: Creation, Human Action, and Our Chief Aim
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First Principles: Trade-Offs, Sin, and Agency
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Our Purpose
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Human Attributes
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What Makes Mankind Happy
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Production vs. Consumption
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The Merits and Limits of Self-Interest
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Economic Systems and Self-Interest
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Adam Smith vs. Ayn Rand
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The Knowledge Problem
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The Price Mechanism
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Free Exchange
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Spontaneous Order
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Optimizing Social Organization
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Economic Schools of Thought in History: Ancient, Classical, Marxism, Keynesianism, Austrianism, Monetarism, Supply-Side
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The Broken Window Fallacy
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Minimum Wage, Price Controls, and Rent Control
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Health Care, Housing, and Taxation
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Economics and Morality