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Can I start straight away with Wealth of Nations or is it better to read something else and then this?

>> No.6227212

>>6227203
Smith is the Greeks of economics

>> No.6227215

>>6227212
lol loud and clear thanks anon

>> No.6227227

>1264 pages

It's a big book

>> No.6227647

>>6227212
>ignoring other writers such as Ricardo

Thats like saying Plato = the Greeks.

>> No.6227659

>>6227647
Ricardo came after Smith, you idiot.

>> No.6227663

>>6227647
Plato is the most important of the greeks

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Have fun with that OP. One of the driest books I've ever read.

>> No.6227766

>>6227203
It is pretty important to read the great French post-structuralists first, as they came first before Smith. Then read Grundriesse by Marx, because this directly inspired Smith. You should finally finish with Hobbs and Locke who Smith inspired.

>> No.6227783

>>6227663
No, that would be Aristotle.

>> No.6228272

>>6227766
>Marx inspired smith
nigga what?
this is why you have to be smart about who you take advice from on this website

>> No.6228276

Maybe the Physiocrats or the Mercantilists.

>> No.6228495

>>6228272
dumbass

>> No.6229604

>>6227659
>Plato came after Heraclitus, you idiot

>> No.6229614

>>6227783
No, that would be Plato.

>> No.6229629

i just started today. read the first 10 pages, its so dry.
Gonna be a long read

>> No.6229651

>>6229629
that being said, it also seems to be written in the common style for classics in a field
>give main point which is mostly self evident
>2-5 paragraphs explaning the point to the layman using multiple examples

so it might be one of those works you can skip the fluff and still gain understanding

>> No.6229666

>>6227766
>Then read Grundriesse by Marx, because this directly inspired Smith
Marx wasn't born until 26 years after Smith's death.

>> No.6229857

>>6229666
And Aquinas was born almost 1000 years after Aristotles

>> No.6229924

>>6229666
>>6228495

the joke
______

your head

>> No.6229930

>>6229629

There's like 200 pages about silver you can skip

>> No.6229954

>>6229930
>skipping silver
That's like skipping The Commodity in Capital.