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Tidal Kraken
02-14-2009, 05:14 PM
I've decided I want to start reading the works of various economists. The problem is I'm the product of a MO public school so I don't know what the ÷÷÷÷ about things.

I've already read some Keynes and Friedman but beyond that I have no idea.
Tidal Kraken
02-14-2009, 05:57 PM
You could read Malthus and Weber and Smith (obvobvobv) if you're interested in classical economic thought, but it looks like your interests are more contemporary.

I actually have read The Wealth of Nations but that was way back in high school so I guess I should re-read it. The other two I haven't read so I guess I should.
Van
02-15-2009, 02:10 AM
Freakonomics
mrs_bun
02-15-2009, 02:13 AM
For entertainment or education?
Tidal Kraken
02-15-2009, 02:14 AM
For entertainment or education?

Both? I'm doing it for myself, not for college or anything. I don't care how dry they are or anything though.
mrs_bun
02-15-2009, 02:20 AM
Oh okeeday. Have you read the worldly philosophers? Zgood.
Psion
02-15-2009, 02:25 AM
Lysander Spooner?
mrs_bun
02-15-2009, 02:31 AM
Who doesn't sit down with a good analytical economic book for entertainment every now and then

Also hush lmao.
good news
02-15-2009, 03:47 AM
lol do not read freakonomics unless you want some srs like pop culture superstructure I love pretending to undermine the system in which we live while actually reinforcing it
good news
02-15-2009, 03:48 AM
DAS KAPITAL DUH
mrs_bun
02-15-2009, 03:49 AM
:rofl:
Naga
02-15-2009, 10:48 PM
Atlas Shrugged
Tidal Kraken
02-15-2009, 10:58 PM
Atlas Shrugged

lol
Fluke Hawkins
02-15-2009, 10:59 PM
Atlas Shrugged

Beat me to it. Although I mean it less for serious belief in Rand's ideas (also because I'm only 700 pages in) and more to read it because she manages to distill, at least to me, the conflict we've got goign here: Profit versus social concenceness (÷÷÷÷ SPELLING). Don't agree with everything, but she does make some interesting points.
Naga
02-15-2009, 11:03 PM
Now the question is, how serious was I?
Naga
02-15-2009, 11:04 PM
Very good!

Not very.

But Fluke's right. You just have to take what she says with a grain of salt. Maybe a bit more than that. Make it a cup of salt.
Fluke Hawkins
02-15-2009, 11:05 PM
Very good!

Not very.

But Fluke's right. You just have to take what she says with a grain of salt. Maybe a bit more than that. Make it a cup of salt.

Lots of grains over 1200 pages.
Tidal Kraken
02-15-2009, 11:05 PM
Very good!

Not very.

But Fluke's right. You just have to take what she says with a grain of salt. Maybe a bit more than that. Make it a cup of salt.

Or I could not read that terrible WINONA RYDER WINONA RYDER WINONA RYDER book.
Naga
02-15-2009, 11:07 PM
I've mentioned before I used to wank off to that stuff, but not really anymore. Her apocalyptic thinking got old for me. But yeah, profit vs social responsibility, government vs the market, a society built of parasites on the backs of the strong.
Naga
02-15-2009, 11:07 PM
Or I could not read that terrible assshit book.

You don't have to. The important stuff of what she said had been said before.
notallama
02-15-2009, 11:31 PM
Freakonomics
this.

you have to know that sumo wrestling is rigged.
SizzlingStapleCider
02-16-2009, 01:53 AM
I've heard Rand is a stupid ÷÷÷÷÷.
good news
02-16-2009, 02:30 AM
I'm reading terry eagleton's Ideology: an introduction, right now. It's really ÷÷÷÷ing good- not economic, but very eye-opening. I recommend it!