Should Thomas Sowell become mandatory reading in school?

who are some lefty economists to counter le black man?

>leftist
>economists

Piketty (though arguably he's not a leftist as such, his methodology inescapably leads that way)

Yes.

>leftist economists

>the best they've got is a mainstream economist whose theory has fuck all empirical evidence

Richard Wolff writes very accessible stuff.

is the joke that an economist isn't inherently right or left wing or that the left doesn't have representation that the right does in economic theory?

The left doesn't have much beyond Marx

The economics field is extremely ideological and neatly supresses views that are unacceptable in the prevailing discourse.

There are many leftist sociologists that you could read, if you got rid of the meme that economics is somehow the perfect science that supersedes all other social sciences.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterodox_economics#Fields_of_heterodox_economic_thought

>The economics field is extremely ideological and neatly supresses views that are unacceptable in the prevailing discourse.
This is fucking unsubstantiated bullshit from a person who is clearly not in the field

That's literally the equivalent of me citing a climate change denying climatologist

Leftists don't have any representation in the mainstream (read not deluded)

They've got Piketty, and Saez... who care about have less inequality... and stuff

This is ideology commenting, denying its own existence

The sociological field is extremely ideological and neatly supresses views that are unacceptable in the prevailing discourse.

There are many left leaning economists that you could read

Ain't this game fun?

It's not fun when I agree with what you're saying

do you retards even live outside internet memes and /pol/ infographs?

He's great if you're looking for a black man to confirm your views

Hell no it's all red and dialectical out there

Except that's completely wrong. Sociology is practiced with several theoretical frameworks that coexist peacefully. If you'd ever take a course in sociology, you'd see that, for instance, it's not controversial to examine some social phenomena from the perspective of functionalism and marxism/conflict theory, even though they're usually very much opposed.

Is there even any point in reading laymans economics books?
Isn't that like reading pop-sci books to try to understand quantum field theory?

Thomas Piketty's book Capital is real nigga economics. Its a really impressive achievement.

When you're learning about economics you need to read both sides of economic thought.

Any book from an actual right winger (an ultra-montanist, for example) that I can learn about this economy shit so I can end this crap and go back to things that actually matter?