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- ECONOMICS
- Introductory
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- Undergraduate:
- Ed Lopez: ECON 141 Law and Economics
- Bryan Caplan: ECON 311 Macroeconomics
- Bryan Caplan: ECON 321 Labor Economics
- Bryan Caplan: ECON 370 Industrial Organization
- Bryan Caplan: ECON 410 Public Choice
- Peter Boettke: ECON 380 / 676 Comparitive Political Economy
- Peter Boettke: HNRS 131 Contemporary Society in Multiple Perspectives
- Howard Baetjer: ECON 322 Comparative Economic Systems
- Howard Baetjer: ECON 313 Money and Banking
- Howard Baetjer: ECON 201 Principles of Microeconomics
- Howard Baetjer: ECON 203 Honors Principles of Microeconomics
- Benjamin Powell: EC122 Poverty and Inequality
- Benjamin Powell: EC470 Law and Economics
- Benjamin Powell: EC433 Public Choice
- Antony Davies: ECON 480 Capstone Course
- David Friedman: History of Economic Thought
- David Friedman: Economic Analysis of Law
- David Friedman: Economic Analysis of Law
- David Friedman: The Economics of Market and Political Failure
- Steven Horwitz: ECON 234 Comparative Economic Institutions
- Steven Horwitz: ECON 248 Economics of Gender and Family
- Steven Horwitz: ECON 252 Intermediate Macroeconomics
- Steven Horwitz: ECON 311 Monetary Theory
- Steven Horwitz: ECON 330 History of Economic Thought
- Steven Horwitz: ECON 333 Austrian Economics
- Steven Horwitz: ECON 362 20th Century American Economic History
- Adam Martin: ECON 219 Economic and Public Policy Issues
- Adam Martin: ECON 385 International Economic Policy
- Bart Wilson: ECON 420 Foundations of Economic Exchange
- Claudia Williamson: ECON 451 International Economics
- Claudia Williamson: ECON 2040 Principles of Macroeconomics
- Claudia Williamson: ECON 2030 Principles of Microeconomics
- George Crowley III: ECON 441 Public Economics
- George Crowley III: ECON 461 Regional Economics
- George Crowley III: ECO 2251: Principles of Macroeconomics
- George Crowley III: ECO 4456: Economic and Moral Foundations of Capitalism
- George Crowley III: ECO 2252: Principles of Microeconomics
- George Selgin: ECON 4100 Monetary Economics: Institutions, Theory, and Policy
- George Selgin: ECON 4030 Money and Banking
- George Selgin: ECON 4710 Great Depression
- George Selgin: ECON 4710 Industrial Revolution
- Glen Whitman: ECON 309 Use and Interpretation of Economic Data
- Bruce Benson: ECO 3600 Economics of Native Americans
- Graduate:
- Ed Lopez: ECON 132 Public Finance
- Bryan Caplan: ECON 637 Econometrics
- Georg Vanberg: POLI 789 Game Theory
- Georg Vanberg: POLI 790 Positive Political Theory
- Bryan Caplan: ECON 812 Micro Theory II
- Bryan Caplan: ECON 816 Macroeconomics II
- Bryan Caplan: ECON 849 Public Finance
- Bryan Caplan: ECON 854 Public Choice II
- Peter Boettke: ECON 881 Austrian Theory of the Market Process II
- Peter Boettke: ECON 828 Constitutional Political Economy
- Peter Boettke: ECON 821 The Developement of Economic Thought
- Peter Boettke: ECON 676 Comparative Economic Systems
- Benjamin Powell: History of Thought & Public Choice
- Benjamin Powell: EC723 Regulation
- Benjamin Powell: Applied Mircoeconomics
- Claudia Williamson: Africa in the World Economy
- Claudia Williamson: Economic Analysis of Politics
- George Selgin: ECON 8610 Monetary and Banking Theory
- George Selgin: ECON 8610 Monetary Insititutions and Policy
- James Harrigan: ECON 8230 Advanced Topics in the Microeconomics of Education
- Randall G. Holcombe: ECO 5305 History of Economic Ideas
- Randall G. Holcombe: ECO 5533 Public Choice
- Undergraduate:
- POLITICAL SCIENCE
- Introductory
- Jason Sorens: PSC 104 Introduction to Political Philosophy
- Undergraduate:
- Georg Vanberg POLI 216 Constitutional Democracy
- Georg Vanberg POLI 239 Intro to European Government
- Georg Vanberg POLI 288 Strategy and Politics
- John Tomasi: POLS 2230 Economic Freedom and Social Justice
- Benjamin Powell: Libertarianism
- Jason Sorens: PSC 413 Comparative Political Economy
- Jason Sorens: PSC 222 Politics and Society
- Jason Sorens: PSC 211 Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict
- Jason Sorens: PSC 328 International Political Economy
- Graduate:
- Michael Gillespie: POLI 223 Ancient Political Philosophy
- Michael Gillespie: POLI 236S: Hegel’s Political Philosophy
- Michael Gillespie: POLI 273S Heidegger
- Michael Gillespie: POLI 299 Topics in Late Medieval, Renaissance, and Reformation Theology and Political Philosophy
- Michael Gillespie: POLI 226S: Nietzsche’s Political Philosophy
- Jason Sorens: PSC 641 The Political Economy of International Relations
- Introductory
- HISTORY
- Introductory
- Undergraduate:
- Gordon Wood: HIST 170 American Colonial History
- Gordon Wood: HIST 172 The Early Republic
- Christy Horphendal: Banned Texts Through the Ages
- Alan Kors: HIST 201 French Enlightenment
- Alan Kors: HIST 212 Classical Liberal Thought
- Alan Kors: HIST 415 17th-Century Intellectual History
- Alan Kors: HIST 416 European Intellectual History, Eighteenth Century
- David Mayer: HIST 390 Early American Constitutional History
- David Mayer: HIST 391 Modern American Constitutional History
- Graduate:
- Gordon Wood: HIST 1970 The Practice of History
- David Bieto: AHG 605 Age of Enterprise
- Rob McDonald: AHG 501 The American Revolution
- Rob McDonald: AHG 604 Early Republic
- LAW
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- Tom Bell: Contracts I
- Tom Bell: Property I
- Tom Bell: Torts I
- Tom Bell: Contracts II
- Tom Bell: Property II
- Tom Bell: Torts II
- Tom Bell: Law and Economics
- Tom Bell: Corporations
- Tom Bell: Intellectual Property
- Tom Bell: International Entertainment Law
- Tom Bell: Advanced Seminar on Copyright Law
- David Friedman: Economic Analysis of Law
- David Friedman: Computers, Crime, and Privacy
- David Friedman: Computer Law
- Bart Wilson: Spontaneous Order and the Law
- Randy Barnett: Constitutional Law II: Individual Rights and Liberties
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- PHILOSOPHY
- Introductory
- Michael Huemer: 1000 Intro to Philosophy (regular)
- Michael Huemer: 1000 Intro to Philosophy (team taught)
- Michael Huemer: 1100 Ethics
- Stephen Hicks: PHIL 103 Introduction to Philosophy
- Stephen Hicks: PHIL 122 Ethics
- Undergraduate
- Michael Huemer: 1200 Philosophy and Society
- Michael Huemer: 2200 Major Social Theories
- Michael Huemer: 2440 Symbolic Logic
- Michael Huemer: 2750 Philosophy and Science Fiction
- Michael Huemer: 3410 History of Science, Ancients to Newton
- Michael Huemer: 4340 Epistemology
- Michael Huemer: 4360 Metaphysics
- Michael Huemer: 4400 Philosophy of Science
- Michael Huemer: 4800 Economics, Game Theory
- Michael Huemer: 4830 Senior Seminar (meta-ethics)
- David Schmidtz: PHIL 400/500x Environmental Philosophy
- Randall G. Holcombe: ECO 3131 Market Ethics
- Stephen Hicks: PHIL 314 Contemporary European Philosophy
- Stephen Hicks: PHIL 325 Business and Economic Ethics
- Stephen Hicks: PHIL 376 Entrepreneurship and Ethics
- Stephen Hicks: PHIL 345 Free Speech and Censorship
- Stephen Hicks: PHIL 349 Philosophy of Art
- Graduate
- Michael Huemer: 5340 Epistemology
- Michael Huemer: 6100 Ethics
- David Schmidtz: PHIL 400/500 Ethics and Entrepreneurship
- Introductory
- Foundation / Capstone / miscellaneous courses
- Undergraduate
- Bart Wilson: Humanomics: Exchange and the Human Condition
- Adam Martin: Ethics and Economics
- Peter Boettke: ECON 100 Economics for the Citizen
- David Skarbek: Rule of Law
- Stephen Hicks: BSMS 315 Organizational Ethics
- Graduate
- George Selgin: ECON 8090 Research Methods
- George Selgin: INTBUS 5100 Pacific Excurssions in Economic Anthropology
- Stephen Hicks: EDUC 605 Philosophical Foundations of Education
- Undergraduate