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Recommendations for personal finance or economics books?

82 sats \ 8 comments \ @riberet19 14 Jan BooksAndArticles

Hello, I would like you to recommend books on economics or personal finance and a brief summary of what the book is about or what it focuses on? Thank you

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110 sats \ 5 replies \ @fm 14 Jan

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

Always a fun read

1021 sats \ 2 replies \ @Coyote_Cosmico 14 Jan

Related: The Divide by Jason Hickel

Explores the history of unequal trade and the winners and losers of the global economic system as we know it today. A lot of info about the IMF and World Bank. Not really a conspiratorial type book like many others on this topic are, rightly or wrongly. Hickel is an academic who isn't afraid to go where many others won't.

100 sats \ 1 reply \ @elvismercury 14 Jan

Sounds interesting -- does it intersect the monetary stuff that bitcoiners traditionally care about, e.g., how shenanigans w/ fiat currency lead to artificially low prices, which biases exchange, skews which kinds of industries can arise where, etc? This was one of the most influential things I learned from reading Lyn Alden's book and would love to explore that in more depth.

100 sats \ 0 replies \ @Coyote_Cosmico 15 Jan

does it intersect the monetary stuff that bitcoiners traditionally care about, e.g., how shenanigans w/ fiat currency lead to artificially low prices, which biases exchange, skews which kinds of industries can arise where, etc?

The book doesn't address this (fiat) directly, I don't remember that anyways. Indirectly, maybe. It gets into some detail on 'which industries could arise and where' but from the angle of post colonial governments straight up dictating that through different forms of economic leverage.

I've heard Bitcoiners talk about this before, how if the petroleum trade is basically cornered by the dollar, that fact alone dictates that smaller economies need to produce things the "Global North" economies want, to get dollars to make energy transactions with - and prioritize servicing those societies rather than developing their own.

I don't know where this would intersect with Alden's book because I haven't read that yet, but I definitely want to now.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @riberet19 OP 14 Jan

What is the book about? I'm going to do a google search too

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @fm 14 Jan

It’s a book about world bank/IMF policies. It’s debated if true or not, but i believe it have some true parts..

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Caleb 14 Jan

Robert P Murphy Thomas Sowell Milton Friedman Henry Hazlitt

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @TNStacker 14 Jan

Personal Finance: Rich Dad, Poor Dad - R. Kiyosaki Economics: Principles of Economics - S. Ammous