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This book is definitely created with an agenda and trying to force a point of view to lead readers to be left wing economists. It seems more like an indoctrinat

• ue_ 9y ago
  >a point of view to lead readers to be left wing economists. Oh come on, that's ridiculous. If you think Keynesianism is "left wing economics", you've got another thing coming: Marxian economics has been excluded from the discourse such that almost every university will describe its department as neoclassical or Keynesian. And this book isn't even a Marxist one. It contains no seething critiques of the capitalist mode of production. The beginning to left wing economics is Marx, even if you don't accept his theory of value. This text is not such a beginning. If you want an opinionated guide to capitalism, read Capital Vol. I by Karl Marx (1867)[0]. [0] https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/
• frgtpsswrdlame 9y ago
  Yeah well if you got your economics from Hazlitt I could see how that would be the case. Perhaps the point is that a lot of the current economics 101 books are created with an agenda and force a false view of the world which indoctrinate their readers and this book is finally breaking out of that mold. That something makes you uncomfortable does not make it wrong.
• jimmytidey 9y ago
  What about all the other economics text books that are absurdly naive about markets' ability to efficiently allocate resources? Aren't they an attempt indoctrinate students to become right wing economists?
• ionised 9y ago
  You say that like other textbooks aren't.