Looking for books to develop a basic, well-rounded understanding of economics. Any thoughts?
Books suggestions
Asher Rogers
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Landon Johnson
Also, not really keen on a being sold a specific system or ideology, just want to not be retarded
Ayden Nelson
bump an then ill let die
Jonathan Fisher
bump and then I'll let it die
Robert Allen
Economics is a pointless meme. Just read The Millionaire Fastlane.
Or don't, you can't really act on it if you're a midwit. And you sound like a midwit.
Gabriel King
there's really nothing to learn as economics are mostly emotion driven
Wyatt Thompson
Read Rich gook poor chink
Kevin Campbell
This, read a book on psychology instead
Brandon Russell
Why would you assume I'm trying to get rich?
My financial health is excellent, jut trying to learn for my own betterment
Kevin Jones
the alpha strategy
antifragile
what i learned loosing a million dollars
Wyatt Lewis
remember reading this in HS and thinking it sucked. Look for something a little more intellectual unless you're a liberal brainlet.
Kayden Bailey
Study mathematics for mathematics, biology for useful models, philosophy (or self help lol) for a better life.
But there is truly no use in life for economics. The book in the OP is a collection of hackneyed trivia amounting to nothing.
Nolan Hughes
This is probably a better alternative: "The Bell Curve"
Most of what I know is from online courses like MIT open courseware. Once you know a little about economics and psychology these pop authors like malcom gladwell, Levitt, or even Taleb are annoying.
To be far Taleb is better than these other guys, but once you've taken a few stats courses his books are pretty annoying. There's almost no math.
Lucas Martinez
what are your thoughts about Mark Spitznagel ?
Luis Diaz
I've taken Micro and Macro eco at the university level, years ago. Are the MIT courses worth taking>
Dominic Cooper
It's more informal than something like coursera and as far as I know you don't get a certificate. I usually watch the lectures. If the material is hard I'll also read the book and do the HW.
Basically MIT just puts out the lectures and course material including the syllabus. You kind of have to follow along yourself.
Haven't heard of him I'll check it out. My philosophy is to try to distill things to their most basic representation. The amount of information in a math equation is usually far greater and more useful than pages of text describing the implications of the equation
Not that I'm on this guys level or anything, but I think it's a similar approach to Elon. He calls it first principles approach. Like Elon I have an undergrad in physics. I think it teaches you to think in a first principles way
William Campbell
Have fun
Daniel Nguyen
I trust autistic internet spergs more than famous academics.
Aiden Rivera
oh nice ive been wanting to read this one for a while
Ethan Cooper
For my fellow brainlets.
Problem I had with other economics books is they throw you in the deep end straight away with massive words.
This book is literal babby's first understanding of economics tier. It explains everything with the analogy of 3 men on an island who fish.
Brandon Ross
>Alternative Hypothesis
Poor choice of YT guru. Midwit.
Asher Cook
why?
Hudson Nguyen
great ill give it an order
Parker Powell
I'd recommend the audiobook, Peter D Schiff (Gold shill you see on /pmg/) gives it a read and it has these little breaks where they link whatever is happening on the island to real world scenarios.
Michael Robinson
okay cool did you purchase the audiobook or pirate?
Benjamin Taylor
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His dad's was actually better, not that I don't have a few signed copies of Peter's version
Sebastian Cruz
Taleb has a technical document outlining his thoughts in math in the Incerto
Further, he makes very strong arguments against the Bell Curve
Carter Bell
Dao of Capital is the best book for a good intro into Austrian Economics and practical application of it
Jayden Edwards
>he makes very strong arguments against the Bell Curve
That's just Arab IQlet cope
Hunter Walker
>basic, well-rounded understanding of economics
Isaiah Nguyen
Carter Reed
seconding this, should be the first anyone reads on the topic. Unconcerned with ideology & what "should" happen, only with what does happen.