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15467680 No.15467680 [Reply] [Original]

What are some books that helped you understand economics better? Doesn't matter if it's capitalist, communist, whatever system.

>> No.15467695

>>15467680
Principles of communism
Wage labor and capital
The origin of the family, private property, and the state
The communist manifesto (old and Marx changed some of his beliefs afterwards but still)
Das Kapital

>> No.15467715

Econned

>> No.15467728

>>15467680

Get an intro to economics book. 39 leçons d'économie contemporaine I'm reading this one and it isn't bad.

>> No.15467736

>>15467680
Free to Choose
Power and Market

>> No.15467742

>>15467680
Chapter by chapter is a good YouTube channel about economics

https://youtu.be/yxDpF3XqpV4
https://youtu.be/ZtWkGfKhsG8
https://youtu.be/x_ektvhdE8k

>more free market more good
Seems to be the main belief of most people, and most rarely ever go deeper into economics than that. It’s actually a bit more complicated than that.

>> No.15467755

Don't listen to these morons. I have a degree in economics. There's one thing I'll tell you: all of these Marxist and free market approaches just don't cut it. Neoclassical economics has successfully defended against attacks from all sides. If you actually want to understand how the real world works, pick up a textbook that they would read at a prestigious university.

>> No.15467759

>>15467755
Ok which ones

>> No.15467767

>>15467755
Don't listen to this jackass. Economics as a discipline exists to rationalize the decisions of rulers of all stripes. Free market economics doesn't rationalize the use of power, so it's useless, so economists spend all their time searching out bizarre fringe cases to justify power that barely ever come up in real life and that, when they do, are mostly the result of past state interventions in the first place. All professional economists are shills. That doesn't mean their work is invalid but it's unsound half the time and of specious or limited value the other half of the time.

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15467789

>>15467755
>I went to a PRESTIGIOUS school of economics look at me I know more than everyone else
You went to an institutionalized learning facility. An indoctrination center. Don’t listen to this guy, op. He has his head so far up his ass, he can smell what he had for breakfast 3 weeks ago.

People who go to “prestigious colleges” are taught to respect the status quo.

>>15467680
Here you go, op. Anarchist economics and reading list in pic related. Start with “what is property” by Proudhon.

>> No.15467798

>>15467680
Basic Economics is a good start for non-economists.

>> No.15468180

I think in addition to whatever else you read about economics, you have to read Taleb alongside it.

>> No.15468383

>>15467755
>Neoclassical economics has successfully defended against attacks from all sides.
imagine drinking this much kool-aid

>> No.15468661

>>15467798
This.
Marxist books on economics are worthless. All Marxist theories on economics are worthless by first principles because of the labor theory of value which is wrong.

>> No.15468738

>>15468661
>LTV is wrong
Nope

>> No.15468750

>>15467695
>>15467715
>>15467728
>>15467742
>>15468738
Kill yourselves.

>> No.15468757

>>15467680
Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell

>> No.15468771

Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell is definitely a go to.