all books about economics are bad :D what do you want to get out of it, roughly?
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Replying to @eigenrobot @acczibit
Just to understand what the hell everyone is talking about, I suppose. In general what all the important terms mean, how they are related to one another and what the causal relationships can be (I suppose the last one is the reason for all quarreling?)
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Reasons for inflations, recessions, high unemployment etc, and what measures are usually taken against them? Or, the apparently really obvious stuff that, the real basics like: What influences the GDP, why does it always need to grow etc?
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Why do some countries fail while others enjoy great comforts? Or to get to the root, I couldn't even remotely explain why some countries do better than others, it seems natural to me that everything just works, you know?
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Oh man ok yes So this is helpful and there is a lot to potentially say in response
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All of what you talk about is macroeconomics The bad news is that most macroeconomics--stuff around business cycles--is rudimentary and bad The good news is that long term macro (growth) is reasonably well understood
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Unfortunately I'm not great at sourcing economic history overviews being a microeconomist who just picked up macro history later, and incidentally
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One place to start is to pick up The Passions and the Interests which is a great book and covers a lot of economic history during early modernity It answers a lot of these questions indirectly, it's not technical but is rich, and covers a lot of sociology too
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Another really good thing that you probably wouldn't catch all of the connotations of but is worth reading is Hayek's _The Role of Knowledge in Society_ which is maybe the best exposition about markets I know of, also basically non-technical and available with a Google search
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A third option--honestly, Adam Smith is a great intuitive introduction (although it's 18th century writing so a little long-winded)
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This leaves you missing out on a lot of the money angle, so you could maybe do A Monetary History of the United States? That might be a bit dense but if you can work through it you'd understand a lot. Can't strongly recommend though it might be too much without more foundation
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