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Re: Graveyard of economic thought

Wanderer — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 18:18:31 GMT

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

Re: Graveyard of economic thought

Bogart — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 14:55:20 GMT

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".

Re: Graveyard of economic thought

Jean Cencig — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:05:46 GMT

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.

Re: Graveyard of economic thought

bearing01 — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:35:38 GMT

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

Re: Graveyard of economic thought

Giant_Joe — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:54:35 GMT

Mises book on Socialism is a good start.

Graveyard of economic thought

Jean Cencig — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:47:54 GMT

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?

Thanks