/lit/ - Literature

>>10235193

Hi /lit/. I studied a STEM major in college and did not take any writing courses.

Do you have any suggestions/resources for becoming a more descriptive writer or a better writer in general? I'm just starting out.

I write every day, so it's not a matter of practice. It feels like I need more direction/advice on how to improve.

>>9484313

>>9436541
This is so fucking stupid, Sowell sucks, but that's not even the issue.

This is just an introductory econ textbook, it hardly "blows marxism out forever".

If you fuckers want to actually discuss the content of this book rather than talk a bunch of political bullshit, let's do so.

This book (and neoclassical econ in general) makes a number of assumptions, such as a frictionless labor market, Pareto efficiency, rationality, and utility maximization for individuals. These assumptions are unreasonable, and have proven again and again to be wholly inadequate for modeling even the most basic economic phenomena, which is why in basic economics courses the case studies are clearly cherry-picked, when the data/policy they're examining aren't already transparently designed by economists/policy-makers with these spurious and unscientific assumptions in mind.

I go to an """elite""" college and this Bio person I know shared this shit on Facebook. Fuck these people. What does it even mean to secure knowledge if it isn't empirically? First order logic? Mathematics in general? I sincerely doubt that's what po-mo continentals are talking about.

I do physics+math here, btw