This is the second course I’ve created for the Ron Paul Homeschool Curriculum. (The first was Western Civilization I, from antiquity to 1492.) This one is a half-year course, so only 90 lessons instead of the usual 180. It’ll be available in a couple weeks.

I’ve been asked if my courses will be available a la carte, apart from the Ron Paul Curriculum. Yes. By later this year I’ll have a site where all of them will be available separately, although — and this is my contractual deal with them — you get a substantial discount if you get them through the RPC.

My next courses will be Western Civilization II and American Constitutionalism (yes, we’ll discuss Spooner).

GOVERNMENT 1B, RON PAUL CURRICULUM

Thomas Woods

Lecture 1: Introduction

Government and a Free Society: Theory

Lecture 2: Natural Rights Theories, I (High Middle Ages to Late Scholastics)

Lecture 3: Natural Rights Theories, II (Locke)

Lecture 4: Natural Rights Theories, III (more recent theories)

Lecture 5: Week 1 Review

Lecture 6: Locke, Brownson and Spooner on Consent

Lecture 7: Nozick, The Tale of the Slave

Lecture 8: Human rights and property rights

Lecture 9: Negative rights and positive rights

Lecture 10: Week 2 Review

Lecture 11: John Rawls

Lecture 12: Critics of Liberalism I

Lecture 13: Critics of Liberalism II

Lecture 14: Critics of Liberalism II

Lecture 15: Week 3 Review

Some Rationales for Government Action

Lecture 16: Public Goods

Lecture 17: The Standard of Living

Lecture 18: Poverty

Lecture 19: Monopoly

Lecture 20: Week 4 Review

Lecture 21: Science

Lecture 22: Inequality

Lecture 23: Development Aid

Lecture 24: Discrimination

Lecture 25: Week 5 Review

Some Problems with Government Action

Lecture 26: The Socialist Calculation Problem

Lecture 27: Working Conditions

Lecture 28: Child Labor

Lecture 29: Labor and Unions

Lecture 30: Week 6 Review

Lecture 31: Health Care

Lecture 32: Antitrust

Lecture 33: Farm Programs

Lecture 34: War and the Economy

Lecture 35: Week 7 Review

Lesson 36: Business Cycles

Lesson 37: Industrial Policy

Lesson 38: Gun Control

Lesson 39: Advertising

Lesson 40: Week 8 review

Lecture 41: Taxation I

Lecture 42: Taxation II

Lecture 43: The Welfare State: Theoretical Issues

Lecture 44: The Welfare State: Practical Issues

Lecture 45: Week 9 Review

Lecture 46: Government, the Market, and the Environment

Lecture 47: “Happiness Research” and Government Intervention

Lecture 48: Government and Money, Part I

Lecture 49: Government and Money, Part II

Lecture 50: Week 10 Review

The Modern State

Lecture 51: The Theory of the Modern State

Lecture 52: American Federalism and the Compact Theory

Lecture 53: Can Political Bodies Be Too Large?

Lecture 54: Decentralization

Lecture 55: Week 11 Review

Government: Various Modern Systems

Lecture 56: Constitutionalism: Purpose

Lecture 57: American Case: Self-Government and the Tenth Amendment

Lecture 58: American Case: Progressives and the “Living, Breathing Document”

Lecture 59: The American States and the Federal Government

Lecture 60: Week 12 Review

Lecture 61: Monarchy

Lecture 62: Social Democracy

Lecture 63: Fascism I

Lecture 64: Fascism II

Lecture 65: Week 13 Review

Lecture 66: Marx I

Lecture 67: Marx II

Lecture 68: Communism I

Lecture 69: Communism II

Lecture 70: Week 14 Review

Lecture 71: Miscellaneous Interventionism: Postwar African Nationalism

Lecture 72: Privatization

Lecture 73: Public Choice I

Lecture 74: Public Choice II

Lecture 75: Week 15 Review

The Lessons of History?

Lecture 76: Industrial Revolution

Lecture 77: New Deal I

Lecture 78: New Deal II

Lecture 79: The Housing Bust of 2008

Lecture 80: Week 16 Review

Unresolved Problems

Lecture 81: Are Voters Informed?

Lecture 82: Is Political Representation Meaningful?

Lecture 83: The Myth of the Rule of Law

Lecture 84: The Incentives of Democracy

Lecture 85: Week 17 Review

The Rothbardian Critique

Lecture 86: The Sweeping Critique: LeFevre

Lecture 87: The Sweeping Critique: Rothbard

Lecture 88: Case Study: The Old West

Conclusions

Lecture 89: Economic Freedom of the World

Lecture 90: What Have We Learned?

I’ll post the first lesson as a sample within the next week.