What are some of the best books on capitalism?

I have one chance to convince one of my libtarded friends to read a book about capitalism.

I need something so good that he'll abandon his socialist ways and become a hardcore capitalist.

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Anymore of that slav qt?

Get him to read wealth of a nation, but it is pretty big, so i doubt he will commit.

ok, but lets assume he read that, what else could I suggest as a back up?

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The one and only.

Capital in the twenty-first century by Piketty is a great read which exposes the flaws of both capitalism and socialism.

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If he read it and it didn't change his views and he still believes in socialism then he is beyond saving.

Wealth of Nations and Road to Serfdom hands down.

If those don't convince him then literally nothing will.

And ironically some of Marx's books read in context of the failure of his theories longtime are some of the best written pieces in support of capitalism since most of Marx's writings agree capitalism had a large net positive benefit on the lower classes, he just thought it would create dwindling returns until eventually it'd have a net negative on raising quality of life for the working class long term which could be argued is true but will occur much later in the future as opposed to the way Marx believed it to be a early certainty in growing markets.

Other quality pol reading too if you or your friend is interested.

Basic Economics

you really are better off asking /biz/ or /lit/

You are like a feudal lord or a cuck to the lord desperately trying to keep feudalism going.

Capitalism is dying, the sooner you accept that the better

>Road to Serfdom
this, or maybe some milton friedman works in similar bent, If you want it easier to digest, pure capitalism is a bit heady

no such book capitalism is shit

productivity is not keeping up with wage increases

this signifies the end of capitalism

I'm actually interested in the Marx books on capitalism.

But yeah, these are all great. He said is 50% done with Wealth of Nations, that's why I needed other books to recommend.

not really, no

we added women but not jobs, retard

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Have him or her read Thomas Sowell.

French economist... wants a progressive global tax system, r-really?

I was also thinking about recommending Ludwig Von Mises, how does his stuff compare to The Road to Serfdom for example?

This will make him give up on all socialism

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Thomas Sowell has some good books on economics, among other things.

He makes a good case for capitalism.

I've read a good portion of them, he has a grasp on the basic historical significance on capitalism but fails to grasp it's constant positive trends and thought capitalism was in decay when in fact it was adjusting to the most rapid industrial change in human history.

You have to read them with a grain of salt since some of the basics he gets are worth the read but the failure to interpret them into long term trends are some of the worst macro economic foresight ever put down in written word.

Das Kapital and On the Jewish Question are the only works of his that have really great insights that are worth checking out.

Free enterprise is a good thing, (((Capitalism))) and any form of economics tainted by (((Marxism))) is a bad thing.

This. I vote Sowell. I downloaded 2 of his audiobooks from youtube and I listened to them as I drove to/from work.

He won't read it.

I'm sorry.

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austrian-library.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/books/Walter Block/Defending the Undefendable.pdf

Anything by Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, also Milton Friedman (Capitalism and Freedom)

What's the best way to turn a libtard to a capitalist?

Encourage him to start a competitive business that employs people and makes/sells a product. Let him learn responsibility, self-reliance, innovation and management.

Capitalism is a meritocracy.
Marxism is academic theory.

So decision time, please vote:

1) The Road to Serfdom.
2) Das Kapital
3) Milton Friedman Capitalism and Freedom
4) How Capitalism Saved America
5) Defending the Undefendable
6) Some book by Thomas Sowell
7) Or some book by Walter Williams

Moral defense of capitalism

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I'm leaning How Capitalism Saved America

Or The Road to Serfdom

3 or 6.

Their stuff is the easiest to swallow and so logically consistent only a female wouldn't get it

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Sorry updated list:


1) The Road to Serfdom.
2) Das Kapital
3) Milton Friedman Capitalism and Freedom
4) How Capitalism Saved America
5) Defending the Undefendable
6) Economics in One Lesson
7) A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism
8) Some book by Thomas Sowell
9) Or some book by Walter Williams

I think either 6 or 3

only valid book posted so far
Don't forget that capitalism is a mode of organizing human behavior through capital.
If possible try to understand at least basic Austrian and Keynesian school economics.
Would recommend:
Debt, the first 5000 years, Graeber
Antifragile, Taleb
Manias, panics and crashes, Kindleberger
The general theory of employment, interest and money, Keynes

Remember that the failures we observe in today's free(ish) capital economies is due to decision and policy maker's confinement to a single school of thought. Allow yourself to conceptualize capitalism outside of how pop economics or political theories depicts it.

Final updated list:

>1) The Road to Serfdom
>2) Das Kapital
>3) Capitalism and Freedom
>4) How Capitalism Saved America
>5) Defending the Undefendable
>6) Economics in One Lesson
>7) A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism
>8) Democracy The God That Failed
>9) Free to Choose
>10) Some book by Thomas Sowell
>11) Or some book by Walter Williams

This one

Mises destroys Keynes. Keynes is dead

>Wife
Never marry slav women. Never.

You can't understand the flaws of the current mode of capitalism nor avoid the mistakes made in the past without first understanding keynes worship.
That being said Von Mises or death

Thank you, I updated the list

1) The Road to Serfdom, Hayek
2) Das Kapital, Marx
3) Capitalism and Freedom, Friedman
4) How Capitalism Saved America, DiLorenzo
5) Defending the Undefendable, Walter Block
6) Economics in One Lesson, Hazlitt
7) A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism, Hoppe
8) Democracy The God That Failed, Hoppe
9) Free to Choose, Friedman
10) Debt, the First 5000 years, Graeber
11) Antifragile, Taleb
12) Manias, panics, and crashes, Kindleberger
13) The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, Keynes
10) Some book by Thomas Sowell
11) Or some book by Walter Williams

can you explain to a layman the difference between keynesian and austrian economics? What are the virtues of austrian economics? What are the weaknesses of keynesian economics?

I'm asking because I am closely related to a keynes worshipper and I want to know if I'm right to be annoyed at them and why they're wrong, if at all

Atlas Shrugged or anything by the goddess Ayn Rand

Alright, it's been 40 minutes, which one guys? Also which book by ludwig von mises is best?

Keynes created an economic theory that analyses the interaction between abstract concepts without explaining how they are sourced in human behavior.
If keynes would've lived another half century he would've revised his theory.
What's more is that current policy makers interpret keynes as is convenient for them and their political interest.

A thread full of good goyim.

And this guy is the worst.

Not an argument

Alright, I'm probably going to go with Free to Choose

Any last second objections?

1) The Road to Serfdom, Hayek
2) Das Kapital, Marx
3) Capitalism and Freedom, Friedman
4) How Capitalism Saved America, DiLorenzo
5) Defending the Undefendable, Walter Block
6) Economics in One Lesson, Hazlitt
7) A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism, Hoppe
8) Democracy The God That Failed, Hoppe
9) Free to Choose, Friedman
10) Debt, the First 5000 years, Graeber
11) Antifragile, Taleb
12) Manias, panics, and crashes, Kindleberger
13) The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, Keynes
10) Some book by Thomas Sowell
11) Some book by Walter Williams
12) Some book by Ludwig Von Mises

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Not an argument is not an argument

Not an argument is not an argument is not an argument

1) The Road to Serfdom, Hayek
2) Das Kapital, Marx
3) Capitalism and Freedom, Friedman
4) How Capitalism Saved America, DiLorenzo
5) Defending the Undefendable, Walter Block
6) Economics in One Lesson, Hazlitt
7) A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism, Hoppe
8) Democracy The God That Failed, Hoppe
9) Free to Choose, Friedman
10) Debt, the First 5000 years, Graeber
11) Antifragile, Taleb
12) Manias, panics, and crashes, Kindleberger
13) The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, Keynes
10) Human Action, Ludwig Von Mises
10) Some book by Thomas Sowell
11) Some book by Walter Williams

I'm look at Human Action by Ludwig Von Mises, looks pretty good. I can't decide, help.

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First, capitalism is not an ideology. It occurred naturally, not forced by some 3rd rate philosophers like Karl Marx, Engels and a bunch others, followed by more or less literate revolutionaries.

Hence, it does not have a "book", from ideology point of view. It first existed, then books tried to explain it, and oppose it. Marxism is exactly the reverse, a theory which some idiots tried to put in practice and had to kill millions just to start, and more millions to maintain it.

However, number 1) The Road to Serfdom is pretty good and describes perfectly what would happen when the State starts to get involved heavily in economy.

Both UK and US, devolved pretty much as he predicted.

The best redpill against socialism and statism in general is to live it. When you're staying in queue for hours trying to get your monthly rations and the tiny window is closing when you have just 3 people ahead of you, you'll understand. Each and every time, the outcome is the same.

The only difference now compared with 25 years ago is that the food can be produced artificially in sufficient quantities to better feed much larger populations and keep them happy. At what cost, just look at the inbred hamplanets like trigglypuff roaming the streets.

Without food and heating believe me, nobody will spend their time wondering what gender to choose that day for themselves. They will be busy fighting for mud cookies in their rainbow-colored kibbutz.

3, 6 and 9 are good

how would you compare Road to Serfdom to Human Action and Free to Choose?

Thank you

This book will scare him straight.

ONE PERSON. ONE PERSON HAS MENTIONED ATLAS SHRUGGED. ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME.

Because of Atlas Shrugged, I went from "OBAMUHH" to "GET THAT SOCIALIST COCKSUCKER OUT OF HERE" in a matter of a few months. If you actually want to put the nail in the coffin of your friend's liberalism, you give him THAT.

It comes in as No.2 on the Library of Congress' Most Influential Books. No.1 being the Bible. Fuck all the other suggestions until your friend reads Atlas.

they problem is that book has been vilified to death and accused of being fictional. Not the book I want to suggest to a hardcore socialist.

the problem*

1.) It is fictional. 2.) All the more reason to read it. All arguments against Ayn Rand have been character arguments and other smear tactics. No one has successfully refuted her arguments for capitalism. Have you even read it yourself?

How an economy grows and why it doesn't by Irwin Schiff it's on YouTube

Jesus christ, no one up voted this?

Economics books aren't for everyone

They're usually extremely dry and boring, even to people who like economics

Honestly something like Why Nations Fail, which is not strictly an "economics" books, is probably a good place to start If you want to try and convince your Socialist friends that their ideology is shit

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The difference is Keynesianism is treated as an actual school of economics where as Austrian is a bunch of philosophical garbage and is the right-wing equivalent of Marxism

This is an extreme gross oversimplification - but if you want to just get a really quick idea of what the different schools mean:

Marxism - Far Left
Neo-Keynesian - Centre-left
Keynesian - Centre
Chicago - Centre-Right
Austrian - Far Right

If you do any economics courses at Uni they'll focus on Keynesian and Chicago.

The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman. This book is the ideological reference of bankers, companies and state 's economists.

Anthony, how is Huma?

Capitalism isn't dying it's evolving. Unlike socialism which is a dead end unto itself, Capitalism has basically killed off Socialism. Most Socialist Parties aren't even socialist, but rather Social Democrats. If anything throw the serfs some bread, drugs, and entertainment and all it good.

I need to do a book report for my U.S. History class. Looking for a book that takes a red pill stance on an event, era, policy after WWI. This class is your typical echo chamber of lefties and I'm looking to be edgy.

Open to any suggestions.

Basic economics by Thomas Sowell.

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I haven't read it, but from reviews it seems pretty red-pilled

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>I have one chance
No.
No you do not.

Anything Ayn Rand, but its not easily digestible. Anything Stephan Moleneau.

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