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14895835 No.14895835 [Reply] [Original]

Why is this book SO LONG?

>> No.14895842

Economics is complicated bud. Smith, Ricardo, and Marx all had long ass books.

>> No.14895850

>>14895835
Bootlickers aren't built in a day.

>> No.14895868

>>14895850
Yet commies can be made in 5 minutes because it's so easy to make a brainlet.

>> No.14895870

>>14895850
But simple minded radicals are who think everything can be reduced to a 5 paragraph essay about Capitalism or the Jews are.

>> No.14895886

>>14895870
Funny because there are centuries of literature explaining why people think what they do about the jews. Let me guess, it's just jealousy, insecurity, or racism, right?

>> No.14895967

>>14895886
Anon has a point. There must be a reason every society everywhere throughout history, without any sort of contact or knowledge about each other's experience with the jews, immediately hated them. The common denominator is clear

>> No.14895982

>>14895886
>>14895967
The pount isn’t about that the Jews or Capital are not components, but that they are not monads in and of themselves. It’s that the world is a complex system of relations. I’m not going to say the Rothschild family hasn’t been extremely involved in worldly affairs or that the Jews Insular nature did not contribute to some foul play, but I am not going to say it’s just the Jews or just the Capitalists.

>> No.14895988

>>14895835
I'm a brainlet. Should I read this if I want to learn about economics or is it shit?

>> No.14895997

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Should I continue reading Basic Economics despite its length? I took a long ass break from it, and I'm worried about forgetting the concepts in the end after finishing

>> No.14895999

>>14895988
You won't learn anything valuable from it. It's incredible how people get sucked in by a title and the fact that it was written by a conservative black man.

>> No.14896001
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14896001

>>14895868
Take years of studying. Kapital is actually unfinished in its three parts.

>> No.14896011

>>14895999
Thanks. What should I read instead?

>> No.14896017

>>14896011
Tea leaf reading is about on par with any economic text out there.

>> No.14896023

>>14895988
It's utter shit. Avoid.

>> No.14896031

>>14896017
I read tea leaves all the time and it works at least 75% of the time IMO.

>> No.14896040

>>14896011
'Macroeconomics' by Bill Mitchell, L. Randall Wray, Martin Watts.

>> No.14896058

>>14896040
Clever. Will it do me any good if I don't have a teacher to go along with it?

>> No.14896072

>>14896058
Yes, it's fairly self-contained.

>> No.14896082

>>14896001
Alright but you've never read Kapital

>> No.14896185

>>14896072
grazie

>> No.14896216

>>14895988
it's fine

>> No.14896555

>>14896040
Seems interesting given its extensive treatment of monetary theory. What is the best book on finance/international finance for someone who isn't specifically looking to learn more about personal investment but instead about their influence on politics and the economy?

>> No.14896941

>>14895835
Don't know. You could put together a couple aphorisms in 50-100 pages about free trade being good