This course cover scarcity, opportunity cost, incentives and marginal thinking, supply and demand, what markets do well and why trade pays, market failures and government failur…
A clear, even-handed introduction to democracy as an idea and a practice. Eight levels cover what democracy means and why it is hard to define, the assembly democracy of ancient…
A basic introduction to critical theory and the Frankfurt School. Eight levels cover what Horkheimer meant by critical theory and the founding of the Institute for Social Resear…
What an argument is, the difference between valid and sound, the core deductive forms (modus ponens and modus tollens) and the mistakes that imitate them, syllogisms, evidence a…
Around 1750 BCE a man named Nanni pressed an angry letter into clay. The copper he had paid for was poor, he told the merchant Ea-nasir, his messenger had been turned away rudel…