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  1. ๐Ÿ“• The Works and Days, Hesiod. Rothbard called him the first economist for his discussion of scarcity and description of the โ€œgood warโ€ that is work.
  2. ๐Ÿ“• Republic and Laws, Plato. Not so much for the economic advice, but so you realize Plato is one of the original shitcoiners pushing a fiat token, and how much of the โ€œother sideโ€ is influenced by his thought.
  3. ๐Ÿ“• Politics, Aristotle. An advanced economics treatise? Not really, but it helps you realize the foundational economic system was, still is, and will always be the household. Also, I love the insight that men are greedy because they forget the difference between money and wealth.
  4. ๐Ÿ“• De Moneta, Nicole Oresme. Control of the mint by princes is immoral.
  5. ๐Ÿ“• The Way to Wealth, Ben Franklin. Delightful aphorisms about the value of work and HODLing.
  6. ๐Ÿ“• A History of Money and Banking in the United States, Rothbard. That moment when you realize the Washington Administration in the 1790s was fighting about today's events. ๐Ÿ˜ฌ
  7. ๐Ÿ“• The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith. What we erroneously call โ€œcapitalismโ€ today is a joke compared to this.
  8. ๐Ÿ“• The Road to Serfdom, Friedrich Hayek. He's an honorary Bitcoiner for both predicting the current crisis and its only solution.
  9. ๐Ÿ“• Human Action, Mises. Practically a foundational text for us.
I could keep going to be honest, but I'm in a bit of a Taoist mood today so I'll leave off at 9.
20 sats \ 1 reply \ @TomK 23 Feb
Very good. You could add some stuff of Hans-Hermann Hoppe.
And I like that You've left the keynesian macro bs where it belongs: in the toilet
The Tao Te Ching is an annual revisit for me.
Plato and Aristotle are already checked off. Wealth of Nations is what I imagine as THE book on economics, but Human Action has 2 mentions now, so I might have to update that assumption.
Thank you!
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