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>love reading about politics
>hate reading about economics
Any book recommendations?

>> No.10476852

The Republic
The Social Contract
Democracy In America

I'll be reading the Social Contract in a few days, anon. We can read it together :D

>> No.10476861

House of Cards

>> No.10476865

>>10476844
Is it because you failed math and logic and are too fucking stupid to understand economics?

>> No.10476875

>>10476865
While it can sometimes be interesting, it's mostly boring as fuck. It's just not what activates my almonds.

>> No.10476879

>>10476875
I see, I asked because >>10476865 is the case for me. I'm too fucking dumb for maths. Fuck I hate my white trash brains, should really just blow them out on the fucking floor

>> No.10476899

>>10476844
For economics books? Maybe Lanchester's The Language of Money. It's basically an entertaining glossary of money terms that may whet your interest to learn more.

>> No.10476912

>>10476844
Read Mankiw than.

>> No.10476956

>>10476844
Marx
Piketty

>> No.10476990

>>10476956
>asks for books on politics which aren’t explicitly based on economic
>Recommend two works of economics with political implication

Try checking out Strong Democracy by Barber, Power, A Radical View by Lukes, or if you want a classic, read Democracy in America by Tocqueville

>> No.10477001

read The Logic of Collective Action

>> No.10477014

>>10476844
A lot of economics is politics (or even highly personal vendettas). Strathern's Dr Strangelove's Game has most of the major developments, but reads like a set of biographies and won't make you do math.

Matthew Lewis' books are also entertaining to read and explain relevant math like you're a 2nd grader. He's the guy that wrote The Big Short and Moneyball.
I'd recommend starting with Liar's Poker, his first one, which is mostly about the politics of working in a trading firm. He happened to get the job by accident, just before the firm collapsed, and just as current financial instruments/practices that led to collapses in the 90s and 00s started becoming a thing.

>>10476861
Very good rec, but only if he means the ones written by Michael Dobbs

>> No.10477025

>>10477014
Michael Lewis.
Not Matthew Lewis, who wrote The Monk, which is still political but also set in swashbuckling Spain. My brain isn't working this year

>> No.10477042

>>10477014
op please ignore this guy. it's just partisan writing trying to pass itself off as objective. he's literally the nyt of authors

>> No.10477057

>>10477042
...the only one of those who's notably partisan is Michael Dobbs and he would have you stabbed for implying the NYT has shit on him.

>> No.10477227

pick up a principles of econ textbook, hajoon chang's economics the users guide as well as 23 things they dont tell you about capitalism, and henry hazzlitt's economics in one lesson. good place to start! and it is nice and balanced in terms of viewpoints.
i studied basic economics for years in school and economic logic is second nature to me, you should get to this point before talking about extremely theoretical and nonpractical issues, exploring which school of though it most correct etc. get to understand how supply, demand etc works, pricing mechanisms, incentives, think in ceteris paribus terms and think of causations. most importantly, have a good grasp of basic macroeconomic terms and relationships, like how central banking decisions affect the economy, hwo this in turn affects exchange rates, how this is turn affects trade balances, etc etc.
t. phd econ (the subject is a lot of bullshit desu but i get paid well so whatever)

>> No.10477237

>>10477025
Book was so popular Matthew became known as Monk. 'Monk' Lewis. It's quite good, actually.
I'm sure your brain will be fine.

>> No.10477244

Economics is really simple. You just need a rudimentary knowledge of calculus.
>>10476879
You should just go read the wiki page for calculus or something

Not ALL economics books written in the 20th century and beyond use calculus. And those that don't are more qualitative than quantitative usually. But regardless of the economists style, it is good to understand what a derivative is, to understand the principle of marginality.