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Thomas Sowell actually started out as a commie.
Check out Walter E Williams. He's good on the black question.
Well if he started out as a commie he clearly isn't one anymore
Most economists do. That's why the undergrad AOC is so socialist.
Sowell ended up a cicago school commie. He's just not an explicit Marxist anymore.
@halfthink haazlitt is who?
Everything the layman needs to know about economics:
https://youtu.be/fxTB8P9kVXU
whoa damn
ill check that one out too
I dont like justin trudaue
@halfthink Let me save that and read some books on it
You really want to try and understand the complexities of our economics today, do some research on the end of WWII with special reverence to everything that happened starting with FDR, and his One World principles, leading into the rebuilding of Europe via several economic packages, and the Marshall Plan. That continues into the development of the European Union. All of this happened as a response to the Soviet buildup in Europe.
Thanks
Bretton Woods was an absolute failure.
It's a good thing it failed. The end goal was one world state, we are still heading in that direction tho.
That's where FDR appointed a Russian plant to head the World Bank.
What was Bretton Woods?
Winning the Peace: The Marshall Plan and America's Coming of Age as a Superpower. Nicolaus Mills
We arent going to get a one world state
Its impossible
Saving a Continent: The Untold Story of the Marshall Plan <- good read by Bruce Jones & Strobe Talbott
@halfthink Do you read any philosophers?
The Mises organization has a lot in their free library halfthink pointed to. A lot of philosophy in there.
I already have some books I want to read on it
Mises himself. Read Liberalism.
He wrote about Rand?
He discusses her quite a bit.
He seems concrete bound
I might check him out eventually to larger extent
Does he every advocate for a morality for capitalism?
Read him. You won't be disappointed.
interesting that that book is free to read lol
Damn
Everything in the Mises library is free.
This guy is better than I expected from someone who's not an Objectivist
Hes still concrete bound though
What isn't concrete-bound?
Ayn Rand saw the events and the ideas and why they happened and could pinpoint the exact philosophical problems