Introduction to Economics

[The_Late_Andrew_Ryan]

Yes! Finally someone appreciates my awesome sig!!!

[energybackedmoney]

@David.

I also recommend Economics for Real People (Callahan) and Economics in One Lesson (Hazlitt). Very easy to read, very easy to understand. And better yet, Economics for Real People is available free online.

I really enjoyed Economics in One Lesson and there appears to be a free, yet older, version available online (search Google for the title). I think I’ll try Economics for Real People next.

[Thedesolateone]

@Conza88

@Thedesolateone

my ex-Austro-libertarian (now apolitical neo-fascist, although somehow a quite lovely person) friend.

Woah, time out. lol

Can you pm an explanation to that one?

Sorry don’t want to threadjack.

May as well do it here as so many people have asked.

I have met this fellow called Henry at college, who used to be a libertarian/Austrian, including once sending a 14-page letter to a local council leader whose views he disagreed with. I think what happened is he got so tired of the world being so wrong that he became cynical and apolitical. He’s only partially a neo-fascists I think, and mainly says very provocative stuff to shock people, but I think he has some of the tendencies. I really wish he had stayed Austro-lib though; even at the libertarian society I’m the only Austrian, and I’m one of only two libertarians at my college.

He’s a great guy though, lots of fun and very strange. I don’t tell people he used to be a libertarian otherwise they’ll have fuel in accusing it of leading people to nazism!

[patientliberty7]

A constant fear of mine; the fact that LewRockwell.com publishes such neo-fascists doesn’t comfort me one bit.

[Giant_Joe]

@Lilburne

If you commute, and you have a way to play digital media in your car, I would take this approach:

1. Listen to Rothbard’s Economics 101 lecture series 3 times.
2. Listen to the audiobook of Human Action 2 or more times.
3. Read Man, Economy, and State.

In Human Action, you won’t get all the nuts and bolts you get in MES (like, for existence, Rothbard’s full exposition on price formation). But too many nuts and bolts are onerous the first time around. With Human Action, you’ll have the key principles eloquently expressed, and see the might edifice of the market economy loom up before your eyes, even if you don’t see in precise detail how every single girder joins the next. Human Action is much more enjoyable to listen to than MES is to read, so I would start with Mises first. Even if you’re not familiar with the historical allusions, you can still understand their import, because his expression is so forceful. And each time you listen to it, its teachings will become more clear. Just make it the Official Soundtrack of your car, and you won’t be sorry!

Brilliant idea. I owe you a 12-pack of some of my fine, Canadian beer.