/lit/ - Literature

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Is it worth a read?

why do you still not read it yet?

Is pic related a good intro to economics, or is Adam Smith like Freud where he was influential but not necessarily right?

>be me
>reading the wealth of nations after marx to get a better understanding of marx's critique (i believe in reading backwards)
>begin wondering why he is a poster child for right libs
>not anti-state
>not anti-welfare
>anti-landlord
So do people just not read or what?

Is it worth reading in 2021 or nah?

Why is he do needlessly wordy? It’s so unnecessarily convoluted. Barely readable 2/10 would NOT recommend

Hi, /lit/. I want to start investing in the stock market, but I would like to study a little bit of economics and learn more about trading stocks before I jump into it. Can you recommend any books that would be useful for a beginner? Is there perhaps a chart made for this? Thanks.

The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith is another foundational piece of liberal and secular philosophy.

Was Adam Smith wrong about anything? I'm halfway through pic related and it seems to handily explain/be consistent with *everything* that has happened economically for the last 500 years with only minor logical extensions needed to account for stuff like WW2, information technology, etc.

I feel like the US is in the 'opulence' phase he describes, but no economist from the last 100 years (including keynes and friedman) wants to say "yo adam smith called this, say good-bye to middle-class growth, not much we can do" and instead is making up economic theory to justify gymnastics by The Fed to keep the party going longer than is naturally sustainable.

Seriously, the wealth of nations is so fucking simple and lucid that any layman with patience can read it. All the other economics I've read gets fancy and hand-wavy but WON is just real first-principles gold.

is this where my journey starts?

Is it a meme or actually interesting. Do I need to be a 105 IQ /biz/ genius to understand it or does Afam Smith do a pretty good idea of explaining stuff?