Can someone recommend some good books on free markets and free trade. Also I would like a book that outlines the problem with Keynesian economics.
Thanks
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Can someone recommend some good books on free markets and free trade. Also I would like a book that outlines the problem with Keynesian economics.
Thanks
Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt
How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes by Peter Schiff
What Has Government Done to Our Money? by Murray Rothbard
Milton Friedman produced a 10 part tv series "Free to Choose" in 1980 that is worth watching. You can watch the episodes online here.
Basic Economics Books:
Concise Guide to Economics - Jim Cox
Economics in One Lesson - Henry Hazlitt
How an Economy Grows and Why it Crashes - Peter Schiff
Essentials of Economics - Faustino Ballve
Problems with Keynesian Economics:
Where Keynes Went Wrong - Hunter Lewis
The Failure of New Economics - Henry Hazlitt
Tiger by the Tail - Friedrich Hayek
The Economics of Illusion - L. Albert Hahn
Basic Economics-Thomas Sowell
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Originally Posted by tsai3904
Highly recommend this one.Quote:
Originally Posted by matt0611
Start with this. Easy to read with short, to the point chapters.Quote:
Originally Posted by tsai3904
Personally I don't think you need any stinking books. Or any stinking economic clown college degrees. Everything that they profess to teach they have went and broken.Quote:
Originally Posted by jtyler
Try studying this Super Dollar for about three minutes.
http://photos.imageevent.com/stokeyb...lar502x600.jpg
Once you have the basic fundamentals then other things should come into focus.
~No matter where your aunt Martha hid the cookie jar with her savings in it, others are able to slither in like vampires in the night and suck the strength out of it. This is an understatement. Actually the also suck the strength out of the cookie jar and everything else. EVERYTHING ELSE. See they're not actually creating any real wealth when they counterfeit. They are just shifting the property lines.
~Sure if they double the money supply your Uncle Phil gets twice as much when he sells his stocks but he is getting twice as many of something worth half as much. Plus some of the very people that counterfeited the money supply have now cut themselves in on his stuff with capital gains taxes. Capital gains that are only an illusion!
~They've broken banking in both directions. Banks don't pay us regular people enough to keep up with inflation. In the other direction, if you had money to lend you could never compete with the counterfeiters and their banks.
~No matter how much honest money you and the rest of the, "We the People's" of the world could come up with to build your world the way you want, others inside and outside of the country, have the ability to fire up the fake money presses and dictate their will.
~ Or how about this one. I don't imagine they even need to spend their own money to get what they want done at times. They just need to get others favorable to what they want, put into position or office and spend someone else's money to get what they want done.
If you must get a book, I think it best to go for something leather bound. We may be able to make soup with it later.
Carson, your Super Dollar makes me dizzy.:eek:
I followed some lessons related to Akiyoshi's Snakes and made my own. I never could get the optical illusion to work very well in hard copy prints of Super Dollars. They kind of work if you cover a large area with a bunch.Quote:
Originally Posted by Henry Rogue
Here is a link to some of Akiyoshi's work.
http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/index-e.html
Here is a link to how they work. Warning though. It is a PDF,
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucbpmor/docs/c...y3_mor_web.pdf