Just started this wonderful book because of college homework,

>>9920466
Better than Marx.
Das Kapital is so poorly written I am having troubles to read, even if with me wating to read, is more like a chore than reading actual philosophy.

i started reading it as way of better understanding the transition from mercantilism to something more similar to the economic policies of our days. I'd say it worked for me. It's funny that Smith calls himself tedious and boring at certain intervals in the book but i personally coudn't put it down once I started it

Smith's ideas have their own skeletons in the closet.

Read Friedrich List, OP.

>starts reading it because his university made him
>not reading on your own even though it is considered the bible of modern day capitalism
weew lad

>>9921479
>it is considered the bible of modern day capitalism

But Adam Smith was a market socialist

>>9921492
So? His name is still synonymous with capitalism

>>9921510
I get the feeling you didn't actually read the whole book.

>>9921553
I did desu :^)

I read book 1. It was literally just overlong anecdotes illustrating the basic as fuck idea of supply and demand. Does it get better?

I know talking in a long winded manner about trivial ideas appeals to literary intellectuals but im not stupid

>>9921577
think about the context in which he was writing it. ever heard of mercantilism?

>>9921577
This is such a common complaint against old theoretical works you think you chads would figure out by now that people jsut used to write differently. If you can't handle reading about the same point through different examples and anecdotes then go get the sparksnotes and wipe your ass with the shit you apparently don't have time for

>>9921479
OP here
desu, I dont read books, like ever, but I knew that eventually because of my career I would read this book.
>>9920896
Any special book?

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>>9922518
>Any special book?

"List's principal work is entitled Das Nationale System der Politischen Ökonomie (1841) and was translated into English as The National System of Political Economy."

You should be able to find a digital version on archive.org.

Its surprisingly good not at all boring like people think
It really explains his ideas well in a convincing manner. Much better than Marx
Smith put his autism to good use

rubbaband man got the pockets with tha bankroll
call me stunna man diamonds shinin like tha rainbow

>>9922876
whoa really made me think