CORE: Economic Way of Thinking

The economic way of thinking provides a framework for how we understand the world. Economics is the study of how finite and fallen human beings make decisions under conditions of scarcity and uncertainty. It makes assumptions about the calculus of choice which are grounded in anthropological truths: human dignity, reason, self-interest, human creativity, and the need for human cooperation and sociality. From there we can ask the essential questions about how we cultivate greater human flourishing. Economics can guide us through the necessary institutional framework which supports both virtue and freedom.

Recommended Readings

Bahnsen, David L. There's No Free Lunch: 250 Economic Truths. New York: Post Hill Press, 2021.

Read, Leonard E. I, Pencil: My Family Tree as Told to Leonard E. Read. Irvington-on-Hudson, NY: Foundation for Economic Education, 1958.

Sirico, Robert H. The Economics of the Parables. Washington, DC: Regnery Gateway, 2022.

Sowell, Thomas. Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy. 5th ed. New York: Basic Books, 2014.

Sowell, Thomas. A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles. Rev. ed. New York: Basic Books, 2007.