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coffeesp00ns  ·  3673 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: List yer favorite "Great Books" Hubski.

Adam Smith's " An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations" or just "The Wealth of Nations" could be really useful in an argument if you haven't read it. Marx's "Das Kapital" as well. Though I have a feeling you've at the very least perused both of those.

Alex Ross' "The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century" has been recommended to me several times. Charles Ives' "Essay Before a Sonata" is a good read, especially if you have listened to or are interested in his Concord Sonata (Don't ask me why I love this piece. I haven't figured out yet).





JakobVirgil  ·  3673 days ago  ·  link  ·  

add to that the secret third volume of formative economics Theory of the Leisure Class - Thorstien Veblen he subverts and rejects both classical and Marxist economics.

user-inactivated  ·  3673 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Here for free on Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/833/833-h/833-h.htm

JakobVirgil  ·  3673 days ago  ·  link  ·  

No one has an excuse for not reading now.

(other than the fact is is feckin long and full of some of most opaque text in the english language but it is also funny as hell)

kleinbl00  ·  3672 days ago  ·  link  ·  

God fucking dammit I should have remembered Adam Smith. Yes, I need to read that. Or listen to it for free.

I've heard Das Kapital is a meandering wreck. Nonetheless, I'm intrigued. Yes, have read parts. Have not encountered the monster in its native environment.

Will now listen to some music.