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Henry Hazlitt - 'Economics in one lesson' Mises - 'Theory of Credit and Money' Adam Smith - 'Wealth of Nations' Milton Friedman - 'Capitalism and Freedom' Mur
by vegancap 10y ago
Henry Hazlitt - 'Economics in one lesson'
Mises - 'Theory of Credit and Money'
Adam Smith - 'Wealth of Nations'
Milton Friedman - 'Capitalism and Freedom'
Murray Rothbard - 'A New Liberty'
Have been my personal, but somewhat one-sided favourites.
- npongratz 10y agoLegal ebooks and audiobooks of various formats provided gratis from some fine nonprofits: Henry Hazlitt - 'Economics in One Lesson': https://fee.org/resources/economics-in-one-lesson-2/ https://fee.org/resources/economics-in-one-lesson-2/ Mises - 'Theory of Credit and Money': https://mises.org/library/theory-money-and-credit https://mises.org/library/theory-money-and-credit Adam Smith - 'Wealth of Nations': http://www.ibiblio.org/ml/libri/s/SmithA_WealthNations_p.pdf http://www.ibiblio.org/ml/libri/s/SmithA_WealthNations_p.pdf Murray Rothbard - 'For a New Liberty': https://mises.org/library/new-liberty-libertarian-manifesto https://mises.org/library/new-liberty-libertarian-manifesto And for those who want to really go deep (some might say, far into the weeds!), I'll add Ludwig von Mises - Human Action: https://fee.org/resources/human-action-by-ludwig-von-mises/ https://fee.org/resources/human-action-by-ludwig-von-mises/ Disclosure: I worked a very short stint at FEE almost a decade ago.
- vegancap 10y agoAwesome! Good find :) I absolutely love FEE, I probably read their articles almost daily.
- youdontknowtho 10y agoThat's the neo-liberal cannon. Also Marx, Das Capital?
- marmot777 10y agoNobody in their right mind would try to read Capital. It's a massive, unreadable tome that you could summarize in an article online somewhere. That's borderline sadistic to suggest someone try to get through that thing. :-)
- seereadhack 10y agoI'm not going to claim that I am in my right mind all the time but I read Capital. Well, the main volume. In English. And I skimmed the others. I think it was worthwhile. I value the experience especially in light of how often the text is reinterpreted and cast off in the US without much attention to the text itself. If you dare try, this is site might be helpful. http://la.utexas.edu/users/hcleaver/357k/357k.html http://la.utexas.edu/users/hcleaver/357k/357k.html. Pro tip: don't start at the beginning of Capital. It's abstract and your eyes will glaze over. Start with Chapter 26, finish it out from there and then loop back.
- marmot777 10y agoYou're much braver than I am. I'd go so far to say hard core. You must be either a scholar or a layman with extraordinary discipline. Either way. Keep at it.
- conjectures 10y agoYou could justifiably argue that the better part of the modern economic syllabus is just a formalist footnote to Smith. So that's a great suggestion.
- vegancap 10y agoAbsolutely true!
- turar 10y agoYou're right that it's one-sided toward neoliberal doctrine. In addition, I would suggest Keynes, as well Marx, or even Kropotkin's "Conquest of Bread".
- damptowel 10y agoAnd Kaldor, Kalecki, Sraffa, Minsky, Lavoie, Shumpeter, Hayek, Graziani, Khaleman, Wallerstein, Thaler. And anything systems oriented and lots of history, sociology and anthropology. Economics tends to be highly reductionist.
- gumby 10y ago..and by reading these you'll learn (among other things) that what people think these guys wrote and what they actually wrote are often quite different. Good choices BTW, even though, as you say, they're a bit one-sided. Essential reading regardless of which "side" you're on.