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7858
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The Wealth of Nations Adam Smith invents modern economics at a glacial pace. This was a grind. Even with the benefit of knowing what to look for, it’s exhausting to extract the core theses from the interminable illustrations of silver prices and pin factories. It’s one of those enlightenment works that felt zero urgency and zero obligation to cater to its reader. It’s a degree of authorial selfishness that’s inconceivable in 2025. And you’re going through all that just to mine out a handful of economic ideas that come to modern readers with mothers’ milk. Despite what the other book says, reading Adam Smith will not change your life, except that it’ll wipe out forty hours. I guess it’s a five star book as a historically influential work, but don’t bother reading it unless you’re consciously courting the clout. As an actual reading experience, it’s a two. Read Basic Economics instead, which is more entertaining, more edifying, and less demanding.
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@six
damn LMAO
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links 🏴
@links
I always assumed this book was like Moby Dick - pick it up a few times in your life until you finally finish it and realize it’s quality. …now I am thinking about not picking it up again.
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tldr (tim reilly)
@tldr
good example of what a slog it is to establish something when it's not obvious even newton had to do it with gravity
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Manideep
@manideepla.eth
What do you recommend for basic economics?
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dogmatik 🎩....🔵
@dogmatik
Do Ricardo now. The wealthiest economist in the history of economics.
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tyler
@tylerw
lol I tried this too after reading and listening to Russ Roberts and had a similar experience 😆
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Oliver
@timewarp
Appreciate these write ups 🙏
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Kieran Daniels 🎩
@kdaniels.eth
This is like playing Goldeneye and complaining that the graphics aren’t as good as modern day.
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