Pls recommend beginners reading list for economics. Also I'd like to know about the gold standard. Thank you
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>>7797590
Buy a fairly newer textbook, make sure it isn't rand/Cato institute trash; which is what you'll likely find if you google.
I learned by lecture, but if you can access j-stor you can learn a lot by reading abstracts.
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Start with Adam Smith- Wealth of Nations
The gold standard (or trying to stay on it) is one of the big reasons the great depression happened. If you want to know more about that read A Monetary History of the US by Milton Friedman
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>>7797604
>Buy a fairly newer textbook
Anything specific?
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Is suffering good for you if it results in novel thought?
(where novel == new to you)
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All suffering is :good:
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>>7797475
why this paint makes me so hard
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>>7797491
Androgyny and so on.
is this good erotica? does it turn you on?
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another section
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i haven't read much erotica in my life, but the main purpose, its sole raison, as DFW would say, is to arouse, which this doesn't
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it's nothing special
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>reading translations
Why aren't you a polygoth yet?
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>>77974332hard4me
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you'rr'rere obviously just a /mu/ memeeer man
go back
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>>7797433
you mean like be a cybergoth and a dieselpunk at the same time?
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Are feelguy and pepe just a modern representation of the expressions of the Apollonian and Dionysian?
Feelguy: colorless, stoic, introspective, passive
Pepe: colorful, chaotic, expressive, active
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Absolutely not
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>What is the collective unconscious?
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>>7797293
Wojak is Yin and Pepe is Yang
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Is George RR Martin a good writer?
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>>7797251
No.
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>>7797251
What constitutes a 'good writer'?
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Yes but he isn't a good prose writer which makes the difference between genre fiction and literature
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How do people read?
I need constant distractions to save me from my brain. If I stop having music, tv, movies, vidya, or some other media distracting me I'll just start thinking about my life and everything I'm worried about or interested in.
A few seconds into reading my mind will be filled with bombardments random thoughts and I'll just stare blankly at the page (strangely doesn't happen with non-fiction). Is this normal? How do people fight it?
Do I need drugs or should I just not try to read while dealing with boyfriend problems?
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You have ADHD. See a doctor.
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>>7797173
I really don't want to take drugs for fake problems
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>>7797171
>dealing with boyfriend problems?
REEEEEEEEEEE
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>he only reads books someone mentioned on lit
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What do you pick while loafing around in the book store? A book that looks like every other book on the monthly book list or a book that someone on /lit/ mentioned?
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>>7796836
>mfw I never read literature and yet have long conversations about it with friends who read daily, some of them even working in book shops
Pessoa, you say? Why yes, I believe his magnum opus was teanslated as The Book of Disquiet. Have I ever told you about the time Joyce and Hemmmmingway went drinking together?
Life is fun.
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Which would you leave out and why?
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tripsit's a starter kit, it really doesn't matter, go away
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>>7796777
most of them because it's more the "US starter kit" than anything
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>American books you should have read in highschool.jpeg
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Name your favourite books from each scenario.
Which one do you think works the best in literature?
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Bottom right: Italo Calvino - If on a winter's night a traveler.
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that chart is so goddamn wrong but not a bad idea for a thread tbqh
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Man vs. Nature: Odyssey by Homer
Man vs. Man: Illiad by Homer
Man vs. God: Oedipus Rex
Man vs. Society: Metamorphosis by Kafka
Man vs. Self: Yes by Bernhard
Man vs. No God: Wise Blood by O'Connor
Man vs. Technology: Can't think of any desu
Man vs. Reality: The Crying Of Lot 49
Man vs. Author: Tristram Shandy
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Books that can turn a man Catholic. Please share them. I desire to move into a monastery within a year or two. The monastic live is a thing of beauty, the one noble lifestyle left in the West. I'm entirely sincere when I claim that it is the only sane way to live in a Kali Yuga. So yes, Catholics, hit me up with the best you've got - it has become a matter of spiritual life and death.
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Les Misérables
Then read Notre Dame de Paris to lose said catholicism all over again
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Lolita
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Has anyone on /Lit/ read The Magic Mountain? Also is Buddenbrooks worth a read?
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No, no one on /lit/ has read one of the most famous and influential books of German literature. Not a single one.
Not sure why you open you rthread with a question like that.
Yes Buddenbrooks is worth a read, as is Doctor Faustus and Joseph and His Brothers.
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Yeah, I read it. Pretty comfy, until Naphtha gets in there and shits everything up with his Jesuit bullshit.
I'm interested in reading Buddenbrooks myself, but I haven't gotten around to it yet.
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>>7796495
>No, no one on /lit/ has read one of the most famous and influential books of German literature. Not a single one.
Is this sarcasm? /lit/ is full of plebs, so I bet there are many important works of literature they haven't read a page of.
Sup gents. Finished White Noise recently, plowing through pic related and my copy of Mao II is in the mail. After that, where do I go? Straight to Underworld?
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>>7796476
The Angel Esmeralda for some short stories.
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>>7796554
I've been on a short story kick lately and was wondering if his were good. Thanks!
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>>7796476
End Zone might be of interest for background on Eschaton.
Hey guys I really want to start reading more books. I feel like spending an hour or 2 a day reading will really benefit me. I know this is a broad question and difficult to answer, but what are some of your favorite books? I just started 1984 and eyeing catch 22 when I'm done.
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>>7796370
This is a pretty good starting point.
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>>7796370
If you end up liking catch 22 you can go down this road as well.
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>>7796383
this, but skip the bottom row, and read Infinite Jest, Gravity's Rainbow, and The Sound and the Fury instead
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Is she worth reading?
Are her huge novels interesting?
I've never seen a thread about Donna Tartt so let us have one.
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I'd put my dong-a in her tartt
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>>7796310
please I want a cultural discussion about her writings and no ad hominem stuff
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If you read for plot I guess it's good as it keeps you reading but she's nothing special really.