Economics

[Amppax]

Alright, anyone know anything about economics? I would like to do some informal studying this summer (ya know, cause i don't have anything else to do) and was wondering if any of you more educated types had any recommendations. Preferably stuff i could get on teh interwebz, as i'm not in a book buying situation, and i seem to lose everything i get from the library (yeah i know, its bad). Area's of interest from my very limited knowledge: Distributism, Austrian School, anything Catholic + Economics.... that is about all for now, thanks!!

[Lil Red]

thomas sowell has articles online. from what i understand, he's a pretty smart guy

[Amppax]

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thomas sowell has articles online. from what i understand, he's a pretty smart guy
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thanks! to teh google machine!!

[Nihil Obstat]

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Alright, anyone know anything about economics? I would like to do some informal studying this summer (ya know, cause i don't have anything else to do) and was wondering if any of you more educated types had any recommendations. Preferably stuff i could get on teh interwebz, as i'm not in a book buying situation, and i seem to lose everything i get from the library (yeah i know, its bad). Area's of interest from my very limited knowledge: Distributism, Austrian School, anything Catholic + Economics.... that is about all for now, thanks!!
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Go to Mises.org. Every single one of their ebooks is free to download. Start with Human Action by Mises, and maybe Economics in One Lesson by Hazlitt, then..... Iunno, Positive Theory of Capital by Eugen von Bohn-Bawerk.
Unfortunately Thomas Woods' stuff isn't free because he I think has a book deal with some company that won't let him license it under Creative Commons. It's a shame because he spends a fair amount of time answering distributist critiques of the free market.

[Amppax]

[quote name='Nihil Obstat' timestamp='1306382743' post='2246085']
Go to Mises.org. Every single one of their ebooks is free to download. Start with Human Action by Mises, and maybe Economics in One Lesson by Hazlitt, then..... Iunno, Positive Theory of Capital by Eugen von Bohn-Bawerk.
Unfortunately Thomas Woods' stuff isn't free because he I think has a book deal with some company that won't let him license it under Creative Commons. It's a shame because he spends a fair amount of time answering distributist critiques of the free market.
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Thanks!

[AudreyGrace]

i took a semester of econ with MVCC, but my teacher was an insane liberal, so i'll be of minimal help when it comes to austrian school etc

[Amppax]

[quote name='AudreyGrace' timestamp='1306382944' post='2246088']
i took a semester of econ with MVCC, but my teacher was an insane liberal, so i'll be of minimal help when it comes to austrian school etc
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im an insane liberal, try me

[Luigi]

Amppax, Know Your Limits! Over-education leads to ugliness, premature aging, and beard growth (although you may find that beneficial, for all I know)! I would hate for economics to overload your brain and cause you to go frightfully insane. [b]Avoid discussion of return to the gold standard at all costs![/b]

[Laudate_Dominum]

economics has got to be the most bizarre delusion in the history of human thought. just watch zeitgeist III and you'll know what's up.

[AudreyGrace]

[quote name='Amppax' timestamp='1306383318' post='2246089']
im an insane liberal, try me
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no, like, she refused to teach anything but keynesian economics. what she did say about supply-side was derogatory. so... stick with wikipedia lol.

[Laudate_Dominum]

I was being facetious of course, but here's the zeitgeist iii trailer anyway. full movie is on youtube too.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJGTCQbCJyY[/media]

[4588686]

[quote name='Amppax' timestamp='1306381461' post='2246076']
Alright, anyone know anything about economics? I would like to do some informal studying this summer (ya know, cause i don't have anything else to do) and was wondering if any of you more educated types had any recommendations. Preferably stuff i could get on teh interwebz, as i'm not in a book buying situation, and i seem to lose everything i get from the library (yeah i know, its bad). Area's of interest from my very limited knowledge: Distributism, Austrian School, anything Catholic + Economics.... that is about all for now, thanks!!
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http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/

[4588686]

[quote name='AudreyGrace' timestamp='1306388851' post='2246115']
what she did say about supply-side was derogatory.
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Maybe there's a reason for that.

[Amppax]

[quote name='Hasan' timestamp='1306398357' post='2246151']
Maybe there's a reason for that.
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i always thought of supply-side as rather silly

[Era Might]

Here is a book that is online for free. "Tools for Conviviality" by Ivan Illich:

http://opencollector.org/history/homebrew/tools.html

Here is the author's description of what the book is about:

[quote]During the next several years I intend to work on an epilogue to the industrial age. I want to trace the changes in language, myth, ritual, and law which took place in the current epoch of pack-aging and of schooling. I want to describe the fading monopoly of the industrial mode of production and the vanishing of the industrially generated professions this mode of production serves.

Above all I want to show that two-thirds of mankind still can avoid passing through the industrial age, by choosing right now a postindustrial balance in their mode of production which the hyperindustrial nations will be forced to adopt as an alternative to chaos. To prepare for this task I submit this essay for critical comment. [/quote]

Edited May 26, 2011 by Era Might