What are some books I can read to help me become more of an educated

common sense by thomas paine

capital by karl marx

>>8593606
start with the greeks

>>8593606
Locke and Rousseau
John Dewey (especially if you are American)
Wealth of Nations
Capital
General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money

Hobbes

Adam Smith has an enormous legacy, sure, but you can't read him for education purposes Anon, that doesn't make any sense.
It's like reading Galileo Galilei to educate yourself about physics. Obviously he and his work matters, but it's obsolete when it comes to getting a modern education in physics.
Not to mention you'll get a lot more out of reading the general 101 economics book.

That is, if education actually matters to you and not just pretentiousness.

Assuming you are an American, the two books you must read are Democracy in America and the Federalist Papers (and the antifederalist papers).

Only then will you comprehend the genius of the constitution and the pitfalls of the American Republic.

>>8594077
This. If your goal is to learn economics and not the effect of Adam Smiths theories on the subject, you're better off with a general instructional text, like a college textbook or comprehensive standardized text for the average reader. It will leave you better equipped to understand the broader economic issues of today, while still introducing you to the many lesser known economists whose contributions make up the science of political economy.

And you'll see that Adam Smith is a British free trader and free marketeer.

>>8593635
This

File: 1448668110606.jpg (22KB, 338x499px) Image search: [Google]

22KB, 338x499px

This book from the early Krugman era does a good job introducing some important insights into economic thinking that you can carry into further reading.

>>8593606
DUDE, INVISIBLE HAND LMAO

>>8593606
>Thomas Sowell

Meme author, ignore him.

Also this >>8594077

>>8594883
>Thomas Sowell
>Meme author
How so?

>>8593635
not this.

Kapital by Karl Marx

File: david-graeber-debt-the-first-5000-years.jpg (312KB, 668x1000px) Image search: [Google]

312KB, 668x1000px

>>8593606

Check out Civilization and Capitalism by Fernand Braudel, a 3 volume set that covers the capitalist system at a level of depth that Marx could only fantasize about.

File: redpill marx.jpg (19KB, 316x475px) Image search: [Google]

19KB, 316x475px

>>8593606

>>8594118
I'm reading the library of america edition of Federalist/Anti-federalist debates. So fucking good. More interesting in terms of rhetoric than history imo

File: 81912.jpg (40KB, 317x475px) Image search: [Google]

40KB, 317x475px

can't diss the Mises. Ludwig von M was a real G

File: Western Lit Canon.jpg (1MB, 2912x5087px) Image search: [Google]

1MB, 2912x5087px

>>8593606
You have to be more specific OP, are you interested in History of Ideas type stuff, are you interested in philosophy, do you want to just be more generally educated about the world...?
Are you casually interested in these subjects, or want a more academic approach?
Academic list: http://www.critical-theory.com/87-critical-theorist-books/
Something more basic would be any generic freshmen seminar syllabus

>>8595215
Only option.

>>8593635
Fuck off and die red.

>>8595190
If you want to read trash sure.

>>8593606
>Things like Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell
Don't read this. Find a good textbook on Keynesian economics, and read up on the history of the field. From there you can move on to other things.

>>8594883
pleb detected

>>8595308
existentialist garbage, learn real philosophy

>>8595537
Look at this faggot suggesting a textbook, to read Keynes, you read Keynes, period (the formula applied to any econmist/philosopher/whatever). Textbooks are a waste of money and time, and all you get out of them is watered down swill. Interact with authors work as directly as possible to get the most out of reading them.

>>8594218
>It will leave you better equipped to understand the broader economic issues of today, while still introducing you to the many lesser known economists whose contributions make up the science of political economy.
A good place to start is with Frieden and Lake's (and I think Broz now too?) IPE book (a new edition is out next year). Another widely used one is by Oatley.

>And you'll see that Adam Smith is a British free trader and free marketeer.
He isn't exactly, but he is often viewed as such and it is down to pure ideology. He probably wouldn't have taken Mandeville seriously (few did), Book V is pretty damning of most of the concepts some people latch on to, things like the A notes give a different perspective, and the rhetoric Smith uses can often be taken both ways as it were. He goes to the right with Ricardo and then the Manchester school interpretations.

All this is partly why it's silly to read him directly, but it does also mean he's managed to stay relevant beyond classical econ.

>>8593635
this & also a few issues of Morning Star

>>8593635
This is all you need really.

>>8594077
Of course you can still read Adam Smith for education. Unlike physics, economics is a soft science, there is still value in older works because there are few objective truths in the field.

>>8596949
You're actually retarded.

t. Economist

>>8595215
>Austrian school

Trashcan material

>>8593606

Adam Smith and all those classical liberals are fucking cucks. You need to take a redpill and read communist manifesto by Marx or a summer of kapital by marx

>>8596992
economics is below psychology on the bullshit scale

>>8593606
Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord.
Reform or Revolution by Rosa Luxemburg.
The State and Revolution by Vladimir Lenin.

>>8594692
Smith actually disproves the invisible hand as a viable or sensical device. He also believed in capping property in terms of land and goods.

>>8594427
>>8595008
Kek'd.

>>8593614
Common Sense is weird in that it causes many allegedly well educated people to have autismo tantrums because they don't want it to be right.

And this now affects the whole political spectrum.

>>8598854
At least we replicate
The assumptions are wrong but we're right about what they mean