So my brother's birthday is coming up and he is really into politics and economics. I doubt that he has read any of the classics discussed here though, so I thought I'd hit him with some of that. The first thing that came to mind is Wealth of Nations, but I don't know if one should start with that or if there is some basic stepping stone one should read first?
Is there a recommended reading chart for politics/economics? What are the first 5 books one should read if one is to get into that subject?
Nathan Smith
Start with "Economics in One Lesson"
Benjamin Long
For politics try Political Power, Political Decay by Fukuyama
Jaxson Adams
"Its lengthy argument can be summarised in a single sentence: without the prior establishment of a well-armed and functional territorial state, and without an independent judiciary responsible for overseeing the rule of law that robust state power then makes possible, modern liberal democracy simply cannot happen."
This seems a little too pointy to be an introduction to something, but maybe I'm just not read up on the subject enough to know that different books state different theses? I'll look that up, cheers
Camden Diaz
Something droll in an ancap reading list that recommends stealing books.
Jose Anderson
WoN, then Kapital, then Piketty.
Gavin Edwards
This isn't necessarily "AnCap" :/
Easton Torres
Human Action
Asher Nguyen
My private court doesn't respect the statist institution of copyright.
Dylan Murphy
>Ancaps >Understanding economics
Connor Gutierrez
Ancaps are against IP with few notable exceptions and technicalities.
Ethan Wright
I studied economics. I cannot stress how important it is to start with an undergraduate economics textbook, rather than with lists of outdated philosophical texts and polemical meme books that characterise these threads.
Landon Collins
>he only ever read snippets of TWoN
Noah Kelly
Okay, but how does it feel being the dumb child of Enlightenment political philosophy?
Brody Myers
Add After Piketty, it reviews, critiques, and expands upon his arguments.
Noah Baker
Undergraduate work has significant limitations my dude, especially now when neoclassical orthodoxy and previously held assumptions are being questioned.
Isaiah Hernandez
Principles of Mathematical Analysis by Rudin Advanced Macroeconomics by Romer Microeconomic Theory by Green A shitton of NBER working papers
Jonathan Jenkins
If you are willing to go back as far as Smith and the Enlightenment, might as well check out Anders Chydenius, too.
Sebastian Lee
Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell is fantastic, even though he sidesteps the problems with inflation.
Still, a great introduction and dispels with many of the misconceptions people hold.
This is really great, but I'm quite biased as a lolbertarian.
Connor Harris
>Viking Age Iceland Can someone explain why this is here?
Christopher Sanchez
If you can argue yourself out of the Ancap methodology and conclusions, you will be a god amongst men.
Noah King
>Medieval Iceland was unique amongst Western Europe, with no foreign policy, no defence forces, no king, no lords, no peasants and few battles. It should have been a utopia yet its literature is dominated by brutality and killing. The reasons for this, argues Jesse Byock, lie in the underlying structures and cultural codes of the islands' social order. 'Viking Age Iceland' is an engaging, multi-disciplinary work bringing together findings in anthropology and ethnography interwoven with historical fact and masterful insights into the popular Icelandic sagas, this is a brilliant reconstruction of the inner workings of a unique and intriguing society.