Book question

What book do you all think explains how an economy works better than any other?

Limit yourself to one book.

The Machiavellian Moment by J. A. Pocock,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machiavellian_Moment.

This book, a brilliant in depth analysis of the revolution of Renaissance political thought, provides a key basis for understanding everything else that followed, including banking, accontancy, capitalism as realized in Republican and Constitutional Monarchical governments, and theories of the self as being primarily individual economic free actors.

David fb

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theories of the self as being primarily individual economic free actors.

Having lived through the marketing of the “ME Generation”, “altruism is bad greed is good”, “if you tax the rich where with the jobs come from?” and “if you can just get light under the skin”…I am not sure a book in any way needs to rehash our collective experience of “selfishness” over the last 40 years.

Meanwhile back to caring about our nation and getting our economy truly optimized with high GDP growth rates…as opposed to exporting those growth rates to China.

David fb I will bet you are right and it is well written. I do trust you on that.

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Pucksfool,

Perfectly Legal by David Kay Johnston.

It is all about just how corrupt our government is in favor of the very wealthy.

Johnston for those who do not know was the long term NYT finance reporter. He has written many articles and several books on finance and the government’s corrupted role.

Reality bites.

It is best we get on with a totally different and much more honest way, for now, of taking care of our nation’s economy.

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What book do you all think explains how an economy works better than any other?

“The Caine Mutiny”.

The Caine Mutiny (1954) - Cutting Across the Towline Scene

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPIr8vb7OeI

Steve…I got the yellowstain blues, from my head to my shoes

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https://www.amazon.co.uk/What-Has-Government-Done-Money/dp/1…

“Animal Farm”

JLC

“Animal Farm”

JLC

Had a good laugh here and then thought that is why the Chinese bought Smithfield.

Thanks for the laugh while it lasted.