The Price is Right

This week we’ll look at market prices, or why, to some people, everything is worth $420. (The meetup description, however, is free!)

We’ll look at direct exchange and the difficulties of barter, and then briefly look at money as an indirect exchange mechanism. Then we will look at how prices arise in voluntary trade.

Come On Down!

Viewings

420 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHdjqsSSa_A

Sixty-Nine Dollars - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4vgA2LtH-8

The economics of price gouging - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9QEkw6_O6w

Money and Prices - Salerno - https://mises.org/library/9-money-and-prices-0

Listenings

You Gotta Go For What You Know - https://youtu.be/MH5UC5evzWY

Value, Utility and Price - Herbener - https://mises.org/library/value-utility-and-price-2010

Readings

Economics for Real People - Chapter 4, Let’s Stay Together - https://mises.org/library/economics-real-people

An Introduction to Austrian Economics - Chapter 5, The Market and Market Prices - https://mises.org/library/introduction-austrian-economics

Subjective Value and Market Prices - Murphy - https://mises.org/library/subjective-value-and-market-prices

Do We Want High Prices Or Low Prices? - https://mises.org/library/do-we-want-high-prices-or-low-prices