The following is a list of suggested reading for the seminar:
- Nigel Ashford, “Spontaneous Order”
- Frédéric Bastiat, Economic Sophisms
- William J. Baumol, "Entrepreneurship: Productive, Unproductive, and Destructive"
- Bryan Caplan, "Externalities" from The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics
- Ronald Coase, "The Lighthouse in Economics"
- Ronald Coase "The Problem of Social Cost"
- Edward S. Ellis, “Not Yours to Give” from The Life of Colonial David Crockett
- Robert Higgs, "The Rise of Big Business and the Growth of Government"
- Daniel Klein, "The Voluntary Provision of Public Goods? The Turnpike Companies of Early America"
- Steven E. Landsburg, “Caring vs. Uncaring” from The Armchair Economist
- Steven E. Landsburg, More Sex is Safer Sex: The Unconventional Wisdom of Economics, Introduction and Chapter 1
- Steven E. Landsburg, “The Iowa Car Crop” from The Armchair Economist
- Gary D. Libecap, "The Rise of the Chicago Packers and the Origins of Meat Inspection and Antitrust"
- Deirdre McCloskey, "The Argument of Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World"
- Benjamin Miller and Douglas North, "Keeping the Competition Out" from The Economics of Public Issues (17th edition)
- Benjamin Miller and Douglas North, The Economics of Public Issues (17th Edition), Chapter 1
- Randall Parker, "An Overview of the Great Depression"
- Leonard E. Read "I, Pencil: My Family Tree as told to Leonard E. Read"
- Lawrence W. Reed "Great Myths of the Great Depression"
- Russell Roberts, "Where Do Prices Come From?"
- Russell S. Sobel, "Testing Baumol: Institutional Quality and the Productivity of Entrepreneurship"
