I promised you a reading list. I don’t know which of them, if any, have been translated into Portuguese. They all should be, because they are the core of real economics.
All of these are theory based. For those wanted to understand the empirical techniques of economics, I can’t recommend enough Mostly Harmless Econometrics by Joshua Angrist and Jörn-Steffen Pischke. It is mathy, but the math is very easy.
While this is a good list, and I would never discourage anyone from reading, this isn't how you become a “real economist.” If you want to do that, you need to go to school of economics where you will learn to model real economic interactions. Theory is less than half the battle, learning and practicing the math is a much more important endeavor.
Steven Landsburg was my price theory professor. Insanely hard and insanely rewarding. I am a contributor to the AskEconomics subreddit and I routinely tell people to read his books (even Price Theory and Applications, which I think is accessible to a layperson).
Well, good to see there's no economics worth reading that doesn't come out of that stovepipe. No Keynes, no Schumpeter. Sheesh. Why I'd say John Kay's The Truth about Markets is a pretty good introduction to economic thinking. But apparently not. Pleased to be set straight. It's the ideological way or the highway.
Nice list, though I would include your three volume work on the Bourgeois Deal as well!
All of these are theory based. For those wanted to understand the empirical techniques of economics, I can’t recommend enough Mostly Harmless Econometrics by Joshua Angrist and Jörn-Steffen Pischke. It is mathy, but the math is very easy.
Thanks. What do you think of Henry Hazlett’s “Economics in One Lesson”?
Hazlitt.
BTW, it's great! First economics book I ever read, at age 17. It saved me from a lot of mistakes and dead ends.
Ex marxist???
While this is a good list, and I would never discourage anyone from reading, this isn't how you become a “real economist.” If you want to do that, you need to go to school of economics where you will learn to model real economic interactions. Theory is less than half the battle, learning and practicing the math is a much more important endeavor.
Rothbard’s Man, Economy, & State with Power & Markets leaves few questions unanswered.
Dear Deirdre, thank you for the list. Which of the book you ahve mentioned contains a detailed critique of Marx' labor theory of value?
I like that the Latin lag applies to most of Latin Europe too.
Is there a Portuguese edition of Liberdade?
Steven Landsburg was my price theory professor. Insanely hard and insanely rewarding. I am a contributor to the AskEconomics subreddit and I routinely tell people to read his books (even Price Theory and Applications, which I think is accessible to a layperson).
Well, good to see there's no economics worth reading that doesn't come out of that stovepipe. No Keynes, no Schumpeter. Sheesh. Why I'd say John Kay's The Truth about Markets is a pretty good introduction to economic thinking. But apparently not. Pleased to be set straight. It's the ideological way or the highway.
Anyway, nice to see Joan Robinson get a mention - as a kind of eccentric (which she was).
Excellent list; yes, add Hazlitt. I especially like the "Austrians".
A great list- Thank You