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Graveyard of economic thought

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Jean Cencig Posted: Fri, Dec 11 2009 10:47 AM

I have been studying Mises for two years now, first with The Theory of Money and Credit, then Human Action.  I am not an economist.  I completed with readings of Hayek from the Mises Daily. Although I may understand their logic, a great part of their writing is to prove the incorrectness  of other economic schools.  Is there a book that compiles all theses incorrect theories? A kind of graveyard of economic thought? 

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Giant_Joe replied on Fri, Dec 11 2009 10:54 AM

Mises book on Socialism is a good start.

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bearing01 replied on Fri, Dec 11 2009 11:35 AM

 

I've only seen books that really refute Keynesianism.

 

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=where+keynes+went+wrong&x=0&y=0

http://www.amazon.com/Failure-New-Economics-Henry-Hazlitt/dp/1933550112/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1260552949&sr=8-3

 

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Thank you for your answers.  Socialism will be my next Mises to read.  But I was thinking of something more technical,  a historical catalog of  economic concepts,  with appropriate glossary, without proofs. Economic concepts are simple, their proofs  and relations to other concepts complex.  I guess this complexity lies on the various meanings given to the same words by authors.

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Bogart replied on Sat, Dec 12 2009 7:55 AM

The Murray Rothbard essays/books "What Government Has Done to Our Money" and "Man, the Economy and the State" are very good resources that refute conventional economic theory.  Also Henry Hazlitts "Economics in One Lesson".

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Wanderer replied on Sat, Dec 12 2009 11:18 AM

Ron Paul's "Pillars of Prosperity" is a good one.

Periodically the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots.

Thomas Jefferson

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