Economic Thought

Heilbroner's The Worldly Philosophers is a good place to start.

Start with the Mycenaean Greeks, Linear B texts to be precise.

Just read research papers textbooks on economics. You should read anything else only if you want to learn about the history of economics rather than economics itself.

>>9685336
*research papers and textbooks on economics

Start with the clay tablets found in Tell Brak, Syria dating from the fourth millennium BC. They denote an inventory of 10 goats.

Start with the Sumerians. The earliest clay tablets in Sumeria were examples of prewriting; the pictographic impressions did not render the sounds of the Sumerian language, but were used simply as memory aids in recording economic data. This earliest Sumerian recordkeeping was a way of keeping inventory of merchandise by drawing crude pictures of each item.

>>9685133
The Worldly Philosophers is decent.

https://www.amazon.com/Worldly-Philosophers-Economic-Thinkers-Seventh/dp/068486214X

Start with Homo Erectus cave drawings.

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>>9685133
>Smith, Rousseau, Marx, Hobbes
>Rothbard

>>9685661
do u think drake uses Just For Men(tm) on his beard? that shit looks unnaturally dark

>>9685689
Now that you've pointed it out I definitely see it

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>>9685133
Thomas Sowell for basics and well explained economics.