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Re: Recruiting writers for a project on economic complexity and the Austrian School!!!

Björgvin Friðgeirsson — Tue, 04 May 2010 17:47:28 GMT

Hey Jeremiah! Thanks for the compliment. We're looking for input on where to go from here and ideas to bring the project forward. Personally, I'd like to redo the graphics. I want to improve my illustration style and personalise it, and then really augment the text with pictures and link them better together.

But I have all the layout and graphic files and I wouldn't mind sharing them if anyone is interested in them.

Re: Recruiting writers for a project on economic complexity and the Austrian School!!!

Jeremiah Dyke — Tue, 04 May 2010 17:14:45 GMT

The style and format look amazing! Is there a template of this that i could experiment on? I hope to read it by the end of this week.

Re: Recruiting writers for a project on economic complexity and the Austrian School!!!

EinarFridgeirs — Tue, 04 May 2010 16:21:33 GMT

Thanks for making it easy Mr. Zwick, I thought the link was pretty self-explanatory, but apparently it isn't(and chloe isn't the only person that has failed to spot the download link :) )

Feel free to link this onward to anyone you know people, I am trying to just toss this version of the book out there hoping some constructive feedback comes back.

Re: Recruiting writers for a project on economic complexity and the Austrian School!!!

Curtis — Tue, 04 May 2010 05:45:58 GMT

Oh, apparently you can just click on what I copy/pasted and it will download for you. That makes it easy.

Re: Recruiting writers for a project on economic complexity and the Austrian School!!!

Curtis — Tue, 04 May 2010 05:44:58 GMT

http://economics.25greatcircles.com/
Well when I go there to the left of the screen there is: Click here to download the free PDF version of the book

That's where I got it so I don't know why that wouldn't be working for you.
Good luck!

Re: Recruiting writers for a project on economic complexity and the Austrian School!!!

chloe732 — Tue, 04 May 2010 05:14:43 GMT

Curtis Z: I still can't find the PDF, all I see is the outline. I don't understand why I can't see the PDF. Suggestions? When you follow the link, does

it take you directly to the 90 page book? Do you see the outline that I'm seeing? Once I'm at the outline, do I need to click on another link?

Re: Recruiting writers for a project on economic complexity and the Austrian School!!!

Curtis — Tue, 04 May 2010 05:06:08 GMT

"It is based in large parts on the

principles of the Austrian school of economics, a relatively

small group of hooligan economists"

Lol

Re: Recruiting writers for a project on economic complexity and the Austrian School!!!

Curtis — Tue, 04 May 2010 05:01:47 GMT

The link posted in the post directly above yours worked for me. It is about 90 pages long. I can't read it now but I read a few pages and skimmed through a bunch more and I am quite impressed. Will definitely read through it when I have the time.

Re: Recruiting writers for a project on economic complexity and the Austrian School!!!

chloe732 — Tue, 04 May 2010 04:13:58 GMT

I am very interested in this project. Where's the PDF? Am I missing something? I see the outline of what it is you intend do, is that it for now?

Re: Recruiting writers for a project on economic complexity and the Austrian School!!!

EinarFridgeirs — Mon, 03 May 2010 13:57:53 GMT

All right, we have now finished the first "beta version" of this project. Unfortunately, time constrains meant that we didn't really have time to involve more people than the two of us in time for my brother's graduation, but we managed to turn out something that I think will, in time and with some more work, become something truly worthwhile.

Check out the PDF at http://economics.25greatcircles.com/

A lot of stuff I wanted to include unfortunately didn't make it in - a thorough explanation of the ABCT for instance, but my intentions for this book's final form is that it will be at least twice as long, with three times as many illustrations, and hopefully lots of input from all you malcontents! :D

Re: Recruiting writers for a project on economic complexity and the Austrian School!!!

EinarFridgeirs — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:47:25 GMT

Thanks for the advice all, keep it coming!

Re: Recruiting writers for a project on economic complexity and the Austrian School!!!

meambobbo — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:01:49 GMT

Something like this surely needs to be done.

Your introduction must make sure you differentiate ethics from economics. Yet also be sure to mention that most of the left's ethical complaints against free markets are based upon economic arguments, and are in this respect, self-defeating (unless they are only interested in specific, temporary welfare rather than general, perpetual prosperity). But just mention that ethical considerations may differ from economic ones, and that one may prefer wealth equality, etc. above prosperity. And for those who have some higher ethical goal, insist that they should at least understand the operational principles behind a free market economy, so they can understand what economic trade-offs they will need to accept.

For chapter 2, you should make a list of questions the current "experts" are incapable of answering. Like, "Why hasn't Japan recovered?"

I think you should also do a chapter, or a section of chapter 3 (or 6 perhaps), given the current outline, that explains the methodology of current economists - using outdated, inaccurate, macro-level statistics to discover principles that conflict with microeconomics.

Also, for chapter 6, you can just go right down the line of Hazlitt's Economics in One Lesson. You may want to harp on actual conditions during WWII to illustrate the GDP mirage with actual welfare.

...

As for getting this going...maybe you should post a wiki on your site. As the ideas take shape, we'll be able to figure out good illustrations, which I think is what makes this work - it makes it accessible. Most of the writing will be rehashing other stuff, hopefully creating interest in such.

Re: Recruiting writers for a project on economic complexity and the Austrian School!!!

AJ — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:33:06 GMT

EinarFridgeirs:

I´ve posted my preliminary chapter breakdown, along with what should go into which chapter at our blog.

http://austrian.25greatcircles.com/?p=18

This was brilliant, and I'm going to use it:

I often draw parallels between the economy and the ecosystem when talking about these things with my socialist-minded friends, many of whom are ardent environmentalists, against genetically modified food etc…but also very much in favor of social engineering and government interventions. Pointing out the paradox of believing that intervention into the biosphere will produce unintended consequences, but intervention into the “econosphere” will not has often worked well in making people reassess their worldview.

Re: Recruiting writers for a project on economic complexity and the Austrian School!!!

EinarFridgeirs — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:11:20 GMT

I´ve posted my preliminary chapter breakdown, along with what should go into which chapter at our blog.

http://austrian.25greatcircles.com/?p=18

If you feel the urge to write on any of these topics(or can point to an informative graphical illustration on a relevant principle) please leave a comment or send me a private message on this site.

I´m spending most of my initial efforts on the chapters on Crusoe Economics and Complexity.

Re: Recruiting writers for a project on economic complexity and the Austrian School!!!

Hard Rain — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:23:13 GMT

AJ:

And quotes - there are plenty of great ones by Mises, etc. Anyone know where there's an archive of one-liners? (The source for the Quotable Mises corner that appears on the LvMI main page, perhaps)

Here's the searchable database.