All of Richard Maybury’s Uncle Eric series of books on economics, geopolitics, justice, and history are excellent educational experiences for both children and adults. The books in Uncle Eric’s model of how the world works can be read in any order, and have been written to stand alone. However, to get the most from each one, Mr Maybury suggests the order as they are listed below, and guides have been written to help get the most out of each one.

Mr Maybury plays the part of an economist writing a series of letters to his niece or nephew. Using stories and examples, he gives interesting and clear explanations of topics generally thought to be too difficult for anyone but experts.

If you have been avoiding economics and finance because you thought you couldn’t understand them, let alone explain them to your children, then you will love these books. Recommended for age 14+, however, they could easily be adapted for age 10+ with a bit of help from a parent. Fantastic books!

A word about Bluestocking Guides: These guides are designed to enhance a student’s understanding and retention of subject matter presented in the corresponding primer. Each guide includes comprehension questions, application questions (to guide the student in applying the concepts to everyday life), and a final exam. Also, there are research and essay assignments, and thought questions to facilitate student-instructor discussion.

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This book is a recommended supplement to Whatever Happened to Penny Candy.  It contains articles originally published in The Freeman a journal published  by the Foundation for Economic Education. The editors have included excellent questions to assit your understanding and study of the contents.  Another very readable title by Bluestocking Press.  These books are pertinent for all people, not just Americans.

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from the defects in thier constitution or confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation. – John Quincy Adams, 1829.

Property is the fruit of labour; property is desirable; is a positive good in the world. That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently to build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built. – Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865

by Darell Huff $22

A best seller and recommended by Richard Maybury (author of the Uncle Eric series). The author runs the gamut of every popular used type of statistic, probes such things as the sample study, the tabulation method, the interview technique, or the way the results are derived from figures, and points up the countless number of dodges which are used to fool rather than to inform. A highly readable and excellent book.

Mr Huff’s lively, human interest treatment of the dry-as-bones subject of statistics is a timely tonic…This book needed to be written, and makes its points in an entertaining, highly readable manner.  – Management Review

A pleasantly subversive little book, guarnteed to undermine your faith in the almighty statistic. - Library Journal

by Kathryn Daniels $17.00

What does it take to be successful in business? Anthony Maybury used to think that in order to be successful in business one must know how to put complex theories into practice. He thought that success required knowledge of advanced mathematics, inventory management equations, and whiz-bang marketing techniques. But, he made some interesting discoveries. He came to realize that the greatest contributor to his business success was found in life experiences, not textbooks. Mr. Maybury said his business strategy was Read the rest of this entry »

by Karl Hess $25

“I don’t just half-heartedly recommend this book…I want to urge you, as strongly and sincerely as possible to read it for yourself. Only then give it to a kid you like. Karl’s book crystallizes thoughts that most people have had, but haven’t thought out fully. It washes away the foundations upon which fears and guilt are constructed over a lifetime; it replaces them with ideas you always believed in intuitively but weren’t quite sure how to defend. This book is really great for kids and adults.’ –Douglas Casey, author of Investing in Crisis
“…definitely the best book I have ever seen directed to children on the theory of how to go into business for yourself…this book is really absorbing reading” -Mary Pride, The Teaching Home
Reading level 10+, younger with discussion.

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As Mr. Maybury states, “The more information you get, the more you need models to separate the wheat from the chaff.” We are living in the information age. We are loaded down with data more than any other time in history. We need to know how to determine what is important and what is not. What to read and what to ignore.

 In this extensively revised and expanded second edition, through letters to his nephew, Uncle Eric introduces the concept of model. Models (or paradigms) are how people think; they are how we understand our world. Models help us recognize and use the information that is important and bypass that which is not.  Scientists do not memorize facts, but create models and compare all incoming facts against their models – revisng their models and checking the facts as they proceed.

To achieve success in our careers, investments, and every other part of our lives, we need sound models. In this book, Mr. Maybury introduces the models he has found most useful (Economics and Higher Law). This is the first book in the Uncle Eric series and, while designed to stand alone, provides an excellent foundation for Maybury’s other books.  Children aged 14 years and older will find these concepts easy, but Mr Maybury’s style is so clear that younger students could grasp them with a bit of parental guidance.  Good to read aloud to, and discuss with, all your children.  Workbooks are available to help enrich the learning experience. We love Richard Maybury’s books!

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To help you work through ‘Uncle Eric Talks About Personal, Career, and Financial Security’.

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Whatever Happened to Penny Candy? explains the economic model that is based on the Austrian and Monetarist schools of economics, the most free-market of all economic models. It is written for students as well as adults who think economics is beyond them and best left to experts. Recommended reading for Truthquest History’s Ancient Rome.

See here for the Study Guide to go with this book.

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To be used with, or help you get the most out of, ‘Whatever Happened to Penny Candy?’.

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Whatever Happened to Justice? explains the legal model and shows the connection between rational law and economic progress. The legal model is the old British Common Law (the original principles on which America was founded were those of the old British Common Law). Justice shows what’s gone wrong with our legal system and economy, and how to fix it. These two books, Whatever Happened to Penny Candy? and Whatever Happened to Justice? provide the overall model of how human civilization works – especially the world of money. Recommended reading for Truthquest History’s Ancient Rome.

 See the Bluestocking Guide to accompany this book.