/lit/ - Literature

iF i EAT ONE SPRING ROLL FOR EVERY FIFTH OF SCOTCH, HOW BADLY DO I DIMINISH THE EFFICACY OF MY ALCOMOL?

>>4903732

the frog's book about das kapital in our century

>>4903729
might as well head to /pol/

What uni are you going to? Odds are all you're going to be taught is neoclassical economics.

Read Krugman's shit for an easy-to-digest intro to contemporary Keynesian thought.

He got the financial crisis right.

http://www.economics.ox.ac.uk/Undergraduate/undergraduate-reading

>>4903729

First of all I would recommend brushing up your math!
Apart from that, I would suggest reading the classics:

Marx
Weber
Smith
Mill
Durkheim

>>4903873
It's nice to read those, but they're not gonna help at all in college.

Economy is pure ideology

>>4903873

Prepping for economics and not mentioning Defoe. Take a load of this guy!

>>4903877

Which is why I said math first..

>>4903937

Are you having a laugh?

Bastiat is a must. If you don't have time to read all his works, "The Law" and "That Which is Seen and That Which is Not Seen" are well worth your time.

>>4903873
>Marx
All the economics students I know have not looked into Marx one bit.

Still OP, whatever they tell you, economics is one of the most heavily politicized fields of study there is and there are tons of problems with its methodology. Unlike science, it's difficult to properly empirically test something because there are so many variables.

There's also not a lot of emphasis on economic history. If you want to do well, just study whatever theorists and methods they give you (which I assume will be mostly Neo-liberal and Austrian, with a few Keynesian economists).

I would suggest you look into heterodox economists on the side of your studies, it won't help you directly but it may aid you sometime in future.

Also, /biz/ might have some advice for you.

>>4905637
That's why they haven't looked into Marx. The spectrum is Keynes to Austrian, and anything outside that isn't 'common sense' enough right now.

>>4903729

Why do you want to major in economics?

I mean, what job do you aspire with this major?

>>4905637
>>4905739
More like from neokeynesians to new classicals. Austrians aren't orthodox and their epistemology is antiscientific, you won't see much of them in college. Real keynesianism isn't microfounded so there's not a lot of that either.

You came to wrong place. Go to /pol/ for that. They actually understanding economics.

>>4905847
lel

>>4905859
They do. It's pretty important for political theory and understanding of ideologies.

Then again, you must be one of those smug cunts who rates the whole board only by looking at shitposters.

>>4905893
I don't think i've seen an insightful post by a poltard ever. Their "understanding" of economics is basically blaming jews, explaining development through race, or repeating some austrian blog. The economic knowledge of the average poltard is simply nonexistent.

>>4905909
This post amounted to watching a fat girl shake her fist for four seconds.

I want my four seconds back you fat bitch. Add some content or I'll fucking rape you.

>>4905919
>>>/pol/

>>4905929
This was better because the contentless is the joke, becoming funny.

There. Now stop regurgitating empty sanctimony about /pol/ being dumb and hating Jews. We fucking know. It doesn't require a 60 word post.

>>4905935
/pol/ started it

>>4905935
>being so autistic he counted the words in the post
Do you enjoy solving puzzles?

>>4905836
My mistake.

>>4905942
>>4905945
But remember /pol/ is the problem. Not the constant threads about leftism and you sarcastic little faggots. It's definitely the board of people who mostly don't even realize this board exists.

>>4903729
while you should go with what you like (which seems to be history), you should definitely look into learning more math, since that sounds like your shortcoming.

>>4905893
no, they're idiots.

>>4906273
Reddit, shut up. Stop whining that /pol/ hurts your feelings. This is the epitome of shitposting, you just continue the whining until people are sick of your shit and just stop replying.

Shut the fuck up. Stop doing this. No one gives a shit if you come to 4chan and get offended.

>>4905847
>/pol/
>understands economics
/pol/ don't understand anything.

Even the libertarians as much as they love to harp on about economics don't know that much about it bar the economists who are especially influential on their ideology.

>>4906281
The only person offended here is you, friend.

Sorry if normal people realize that /pol/ knows exactly naught about economics.

>>4906281
I'm not him but
>they're idiots
>Stop whining that /pol/ hurts your feelings
>This is the epitome of shitposting, you just continue the whining until people are sick of your shit and just stop replying.
>Shut the fuck up. Stop doing this. No one gives a shit if you come to 4chan and get offended.
Where the fuck do you see whining in his post? Furthermore, where do you see whining or someone being offended in this thread? There's a bunch of people calling /pol/ retards, and that's what they are.

>>4903729
It does seem like what you really ought to study is sociology, OP. That's where you'll do Marx and Weber and all the interesting stuff about the origins of capitalist ideology and the politics of representation.

Most economy courses will be training to become a wanker banker. You'll be far more employable having studied economics, but in general I'd prefer to have a coffee with someone who has studied social-political science or philosophy.

>>4903809
But /pol/ is full of Nazis and libertarians.

>>4906368
>but in general I'd prefer to have a coffee with someone who has studied social-political science or philosophy.
B-but what about being with someone who has studied social-political science or philosophy and, instead of having a coffee, inspire workers for revolution?

>>4906368
Or you can try to do a double bachelor

>>4903729

Hey OP, I'm a historian of social and economic thought. If you want to study for heterodox economics like historical or institutional economics, you should probably major in history. With that said, however, it won't make you nearly (if at all) competitive in the financial or economic field.