The exchange of goods and services through markets is as old as human civilization itself—indeed, depending on what one means by “markets” and “civilization,” it may even be older. The following ISI short course in Free Markets and Civil Society will orient readers to the major questions, issues, and debates surrounding the concepts of “the market,” “economic freedom,” and “social order,” as they has been developed by conservative thinkers over the last two centuries in western thought. Readers will find succinct explanations of the Austrian School, Keynesianism, the Chicago School, “supply-side” economics and other important movements that have shaped modern economic theory. . . . [more]