ACADEMICS

Academic Readings

Intellectual History

1. Course Description

2. Course Syllabus

3. Alan Kors

4. Alexis de Toqueville

5. Antony Sullivan: The Journal of the Historical Society

6. Samuel Huntington

7. Claes G. Ryn

8. Caroline Stone

9. Ibn Khaldun

Political Economy

Course Syllabus and Reading Guide

1. Market 'Experiment'

No Reading Assignment

2. Spontaneous Order & Markets

Friedrich A. Hayek

Henry Hazlett

3. The Role of Property Rights in Economic Development

Hernando de Soto

4. Class Experiment on Property Rights

No Reading Assignment

5. Trade & Comparative Advantage

Henry Hazlett

Douglas A. Irwin

Alan Blinder

6. The Trade Debate

Paul A. Samuelson

Jagdish Bhagwati

7. Tragedy of the Commons Experiment

No Reading Assignment

8. Public Goods, Free Riders, Commons Problems, and the Role of Government

James Buchanan & Richard Musgrave

9. Hayek & The Road to Serfdom

Friedrich A. Hayek

10. The Economics of Religion

Adam Smith

Laurence R. Iannaccone

11. In-Class Review Session

The Good Society

1. Good Society Syllabus

2. Crediting Poetry

3. Plato: Seventh Letter

4. Plato: The Apology

5. Plato: The Republic

6. The Politics of Hope

7. Documents of American Government

8. Draft for a Statement of Human Obligations

9. Fang Lizhe: Human Rights in China

10. FDR: The Four Freedoms

11. Henry David Thoreau: Civil Disobedience

12. Martin Luther King Jr.: Letter from Birmingham City Jail

13. Ralph Waldo Emerson: Self Reliance

14. The Contemporary Constitution

15. Thomas Jefferson's First Inaugural Address

Conflict Management

Course Syllabus

1. Review of the Conflict Resolution Field

H. Miall

T. Ohlsen

2. Negotiation Training and Theory

R. Fisher & W. Ury

W. Ury

3. Core Conflict Skills

B. Broome

R. Kraybill

4. Tools of International Intervention

M. Lange

H. Skinner

5. State of the Field

R. Wagner

C. Zelizer & L. Johnston