/lit/ - Literature

just don't want to put the effort in desu

>>10205333
What makes this guy so special? As far as I can tell he's just a generic conservative economist/political scientist.

>>10205476
but he's a BASED BLACK MAN.

>>10205476
He's one of the cornerstones of the Chicago School. Second biggest influence behind Friedman, if I'm not mistaken.

>>10205601
And Friedman is shit, so what does that tell you.

Black guys who submit to White America are bro-tier.

>>10205610
>what does that tell you
That you're a marxist, most likely living from your parents' money, government handouts, or a menial customer service job such as barista, waiter, call center staff or the like.

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>>10205960

le pop economist

Read Mankiw, pleb.

>>10205601
You are mistaken. He is a pop economist. No one in the field takes him seriously.

>>10206115
>Read Mankiw, pleb.
This desu. I am practically a Marxist, but Mankiw is at least something substantial. Sowell is predigested op ed type material that Ski-Doo dealers with above ground pools read to feel smarter than their liberal kids.

>>10206121
>peter noone at it again.

Sowell's Google scholar results.

>>10206172
By way of comparison, here are Krugman's.

>>10206137
>I am practically a Marxist,
stopped reading there. I hope someone takes you for a helicopter ride real soon, pinko!

>>10206180
>>>10206137 (You)
>>I am practically a Marxist,
>stopped reading there. I hope someone takes you for a helicopter ride real soon, pinko!
Helicopter rides for advocating Mankiw. You poltards aren't very smart.

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>>10205333
I do, badly. I want it more than anything else in life. More than eating, drinking, and partying like my peers.

BUT.

I need to make money or I'll have no food, no place to sleep, and no way to get the materials to learn from.

>How to get rich enough that I actually have the time to learn instead of just enough to pay the bills and go back to work.
>Preferably something that doesn't take 20 fucking years. Would choose death over 20 years of corporate wagecucking.

>still shilling this coon's """books"""
/pol/acks, everyone

>>10205476
I wouldn't say there's anything generic about Sowell. He's not only a very clear thinker he also presents his ideas very well and is very broad in scope. Knowledge and Decisions, A Conflict of Visions, Wealth Poverty and Politics, Intellectuals and Society span several domains: economy, history, philosophy, psychology, law etc.
Give A Conflict of Visions a try. It's a very compelling book on the nature of men. Pinker reused the ideas in the Blank Book.
When reading Sowell I always try to find counterexamples or lapses in logic. I rarely do.

>>10205333
Chicago School policies are directly responsible for the recession, and America's general decline. Notice that the healthiest economies are the ones rejecting the views of Friedman and his disciples.

>>10208488
fucking rofl, get out of your basement once in a while sperg

>>10205601
I'm not sure Friedman is the biggest influence.

I'd say that goes to von Mises. He was quite the beast.

Hayek is also a name that belongs at the very top of the list when it comes to influential people from the Chicago school.

>>10206137
What you are is a pretentious cunt.

What makes Sowell so great is his wide knowledge in many fields and his ability to condense complex issues into easy-to-read texts the masses can understand.

Only an elitist, leftist piece of shit hates the very masses they claim to fight for.

>>10208488
>Notice that the healthiest economies are the ones rejecting the views of Friedman and his disciples.

This, but just the very opposite.

>>10208512
>plebbit spacing
Neck yourself. Learning how to read seems too much for you at this point.

>>10208488
>responsible for the recession

I didn't know Friedman supported forcing banks to give loans to people who can't pay them back and giving government funds to private business that can't compete on their own.

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>>10208522
That's exactly what a pretentious cunt would say.

>>10208850
This would get you plent of upvotes on r/t_D.

>>10206121
t. keynesian

>>10205610
Care to give any reasons behind this statement comrade?

>>10208488
Like Venezuela?

>>10209111
You're so informed on the subject, anon! :3 Did you get that insight from the shock doctorine

>>10209183
Wouldn't Naomi be sayin' that Venezuela is a paradise, a testament of the success of socialism though?

>>10209220
it's almost like you're just piling on buzzwords whose meaning you don't even know

>>10209320
>buzzwords
I don't think you know what that means..

>>10209326
what else are mentions of "socialism" and "venezuela" in a context that has nothing to do with them?

>>10208488
What economies would say are the healthiest?

>>10209369
It was a reply to your weird and idiotic remark about the shock doctrine in response to someone asking whether or not you or whoever else posted that idiotic post about the Chicago school being behind the recession and whathaveyou.

If you can't see the context, you're stupid as hell.

>>10209387
1. I'm not the guy who mentioned the shock doctrine
2. since you're all about context, how did you miss that I was obviously talking about this reply: >>10209111 and the follow up: >>10209220

>>10209435

>socialism and venezuela
>rejection of the free market
>somehow out of context

You're trying too hard and it's embarrassing

>>10209733
rejection of friedman isn't rejection of a free market yyou fucking doofus

@mods:
why the fuck is this thread still up?

>>10212664

Go fuck yourself.

>>10206176
Compare Sowell's to the average economist, though.

>>10212683
gb2/pol/

>>10212827

Yeah sure I'll do that

>>10208918
All you comrades on /leftypol/ would give you plenty of (You)s

>>10211081
>friedman
>not a proponent of free market capitalism
ok

>>10208504
Is this a troll??
von Mises and Hayek are both Austrian Schoolers. They had nothing to do with the Chicago School and in fact opposed their theories.
That said von Mises is a God among men and Hayek is meh.

>>10213507
Actually he wasn't. I'm not sure what side the other anon is on but I can tell you Friedman is in favor of upsetting the free market in lots of fundamental ways.
Namely monetarism and screwing around with money supply/interest rates. That's literally out of the utopian socialist handbook, and it constitutes an outright rejection of the pricing mechanism of capitalism.
Friedman's theories, in many ways, did cause the crash of 2008. His macro is, by his own admission, functionally no different from Keynes' and lead to the malinvestment and ultimately the crash.
If you want some real free market shit read von Mises and Rothbard. Especially their stuff on the Austrian Business Cycle.

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