Episode 12 - Economics 101 - 1 of 8 - Demand and Supply, Consumer Goods, Prices and Exchange - Murray N Rothbard

ECONOMICS 101

Murray Rothbard's Economics 101 series

1. Demand and Supply, Consumer Goods, Prices and Exchange

Micro economics starts with the basic fact that each person has short term and long term goals, like buying a ham sandwich and graduating from college. People act in the world to accomplish something. Human action is purposive. You employ different means to achieve certain goals.

Rothbard begins with the simple situation of Crusoe – one laborer- on an island. Capital is everything used in production that is not land or labor. Production ends up with consumer goods which are consumed. The free market coordinates everything. No world planning board can do this. Micro economics is the study of how all this works. Resources are scarce not superabundant.

Humans prefer stuff now rather than later. This is called time preference. Preferences are ordinal, (a, b, c), not cardinal (1, 2, 3). Action is risky. The entrepreneur is a risk-taking capitalist. Our discipline is qualitative, not quantitative. The Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility states that as a person increases consumption of a product, while keeping consumption of other products constant, there is a decline in the marginal utility that a person derives from consuming each additional unit of that product. The lower the price the more will be purchased. The higher the price the less will be purchased.

Part one of eight from Economics 101: Lectures by Murray N. Rothbard.

A collection of eight speeches and lectures by Murray N. Rothbard, spanning from the 1970s to the early 1990s. He is speaking in a small classroom setting, explaining economics from the ground up, and systematically in the manner of a classic 101 course on the topic—but with a revolutionary approach.

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