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[–]IntegraldsI am the rep agent AMA 10ポイント11ポイント  (28子コメント)

Last thread's philosophy questions were well received. Let's do literature. Game of the thread:

  1. Favorite nonfiction book?
  2. Favorite fiction book?
  3. Favorite nonfiction author?
  4. Favorite fiction author?
  5. 2-5 books that deeply shaped how you think about the world? Fiction, nonfiction, or a mix.

If you answer with /r/askreddit-tier "books that come from a high school English Lit syllabus" I'll have to shoot you. Or at least justify your answer. Be hipsterish. Be creative.

[–]a_s_h_e_nA stable currency, like bitcoin 8ポイント9ポイント  (5子コメント)

  • 1984 - it's just like real life

  • Brave Bew World - it's just like real life

  • To Kill a Mockingbird - Atticus GOAT dad

  • Slaughterhouse-Five - Vonnegut's just so insightful

  • Into the Wild - Chris McCandless just, like, knew what society really was, man

Sorry. Couldn't help myself. I'll post some real answers in a little bit, when I've got a second to really think about this.

[–]rslake 3ポイント4ポイント  (1子コメント)

Anyone remember How to Kill a Mockingbird?

[–]MoneyChurchDickey-Fuller? I hardly know her! 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

There was lens flare, and MOTION BLUR.

Don't lie, we all thought that was awesome in middle school.

[–]say_wot_againConfirmed for Google bigwig 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

Attitcus GOAT dad

Clearly you haven't read Go Set a Watchman.

[–]a_s_h_e_nA stable currency, like bitcoin 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I haven't, actually. But I am glad that his character had a little more depth added to it, from what I understand.

[–]sakebomb69 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Trick question. All answers should be '1984'

[–]somegurkWhy doesn't modern medicine use more leaches? 4ポイント5ポイント  (3子コメント)

These answers may be a tad flippant as I read a lot so just what occurred to me without a huge amount of thought.

  1. Cod A biography of the fish that changed the world- Mark Kurlansky. Just surprisingly interesting how something so small can have such a huge effect on the world, engaging and informative.

  2. I could say something high brow here but being honest the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. The series was a huge part of my life started reading them at 7 and some of them I reread till they fell apart.

  3. E.O. Wilson, just find him very interesting, he's a biologist and the first thing I read by him was 'The Future of Life' check it out.

  4. In reality Robert Jordan but for something a bit more high brow Dostoyevsky.

  5. Crime and Punishment & the Idiot by Dostoyevsky. Animal Farm not because of the book per se but read it fairly young and I can remember talking about it with my father after, reminds me of when I began thinking about the world a bit more. Some introduction to Existenialism book I got from the library when I was depressed, got me reading some other existentialist writers and I think that helped me shape my worldview and get back to normal mentally.

[–]xorchidsExpert at economics I know what bitcoins are 0ポイント1ポイント  (2子コメント)

Crime and Punishment & the Idiot by Dostoyevsky. Animal Farm not because of the book per se but read it fairly young and I can remember talking about it with my father after, reminds me of when I began thinking about the world a bit more. Some introduction to Existenialism book I got from the library when I was depressed, got me reading some other existentialist writers and I think that helped me shape my worldview and get back to normal mentally.

Orwell was extremely pessimistic, cynical, and paranoid (for his time period, even though what he penned is really reality now). Some of my favorite quotes are by him - he tells it like it is. But he must have been a total buzzkill to be around.

Orwell and the way he thought is a good example of why reflection/introspection of yourself and the world around you is dangerous territory.

He would have probably been a great economist!

[–]somegurkWhy doesn't modern medicine use more leaches? 0ポイント1ポイント  (1子コメント)

Have you read his Homage to Catalonia? In it he says himself not to believe anything about the civil war but I can see why he would be cynical if you believe his account. I must actually read his earlier books, I've read his three non-fiction and animal farm 1984 I wonder if his works pre-spain are different. There's a huge anthology of his work in my house with his newspaper/magazine articles and short stories in it some of them are quite good.

[–]xorchidsExpert at economics I know what bitcoins are 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I have not, but I know about how the civil war might have made him flip flop into the Orwell we know him as. I don't know if what he really went through was real or if that's just the way he interpreted it. I've looked into it before, and he wrote at the same time mental illness would have probably started really. I think Orwell definitely had some kind of mental issues. (maybe a mild form of schizophrenia and very high intelligence)

He was definitely a loon but in an aware way...if that makes sense. Just like the loons today are still loons but in an aware way. I listen to all the people that tell me they think the government is watching through the TV's and stuff like that. And people will lol at me all day long for siding with them, but hey one day they might just do that.

Just because he was mentally ill doesn't mean I discredit him in any way at all, but the way he came to the state we know him as...probably subjective

[–]SenorFluffyInvisible Foot 3ポイント4ポイント  (2子コメント)

  1. Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace - absolutely incredible articles written by one of my favorite authors. Topics range from the adult film expo to a Lobster festival in Maine to a review of a dictionary. A good econ non fiction book is also Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely.

  2. Xenocide by Orson Scott Card. I know he's pretty homophobic, but Jesus that book is amazing. A but weird how though how the main character's "superpower" is empathy when OSC doesn't have any.

  3. I would say DFW from #1 but that's lame so I'll go with Zach Lowe, a basketball journalist. Again not really the spirit of the question but whatever.

  4. I guess maybe Isaac Asimov. Love The Foundation and his short stories. Got me into Sci-Fi. Note: there's a cool trade paper by Krugman on interstellar trade and interest rates. Pretty good read for any Sci-Fi buffs.

  5. I'll go with some easy stuff and go with the "A song of ice and fire" series and the "Harry Potter" series. Who doesn't love Harry Potter?

[–]MoneyChurchDickey-Fuller? I hardly know her! 0ポイント1ポイント  (1子コメント)

Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace

I've only read the article about lobster itself, so I can't comment on the rest, but that particular one is badphysiology.

[–]SenorFluffyInvisible Foot 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Well part of what I like about the article itself is the beautiful prose which your link discusses. But I also like that in the article, IMO, he doesn't come off preachy about it. Before saying his opinions about the issue, he discusses the other points about lobsters possibly not feeling pain. His conclusion is surprisingly ambivalent where he ultimately says that he doesn't really know whether abstaining from lobster is the morally correct thing to do. He doesn't say that the reader should abstain either. I certainly eat lobster for that matter. Its a thought provoking piece of nonfiction, which is why I like it.

[–]jieling 1ポイント2ポイント  (2子コメント)

  1. Have to say, Why nations fail
  2. Anathem
  3. Bill Bryson
  4. Brandon Sanderson
  5. The unbearable lightness of being, Die Verwandlung, Goethes Faust, Willpower, Mankiws undergrad econ book.

Alright so justifications:

  1. I like the book, I'm partial to institutional and path dependency arguments, I always dug Acemoglu.

  2. I like math, I like fantasy, I like long books, super fun book that I highly recommend! Well-researched as well

  3. Makes cool and interesting history stuff!

  4. Pumps out insane amounts of easily digestible fantasy novels that get you super hooked and that are great as audiobooks for the commute.

  5. First book that really stayed with me after reading; Kafka because he tickles my absurdist streak; Faust because it is the greatest work of german literature, an absolutely monumental book by one of the most genius people to ever live; Willpower by Roy Baumeister because it helped me grapple with my demons of pathological procrastination, depression and anxiety and rediscover my driven, motivated and adventurous self after a dark period of too much WoW and cigarettes and not a lot of actually doing something w ith my life. Finally mankiws undergrad econ book because it's why I studied economics in the first place. I actually first thought I would go into law and thank the heavens I went to a university where I don't have to choose my major at the start.

edit: mistyped the book title, oops, I mean Anathem, not anathema

[–]somegurkWhy doesn't modern medicine use more leaches? 2ポイント3ポイント  (1子コメント)

Oh yeh shit how could I forget Bryson he's fantastic. Your description of Anathema ticks a lot of my boxes I'll give it a look. Sanderson is great too he did a good job finishing off the wheel of time.

[–]jieling 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

btw, I mistyped, the book is called anathem not anathema. It's about science monks who do crazy math and I really liked the setting.

From the wikipedia description: Major themes include the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics and the philosophical debate between Platonic realism and nominalism.

[–]__ArchipelagoCollectivizing the Memes of Production 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

  1. The Bible

  2. Voyage of the Beagle (DARWIN LIES)

  3. GOD

  4. DickDork

  5. Mathew, Mark, Luke

COME AT ME RATHEISTIS.

edit: Actual answers.

  1. I don't read enough non-fiction besides math textbooks. I'll just got with On Violence

  2. East of Eden

  3. Hannah Arendt

  4. Jorge Luis Borges

  5. The Death of Ivan Ilyich, The Blood of Others, and Fear and Trembling

[–]StevenMulraneyChoice Architecture = 1984 0ポイント1ポイント  (1子コメント)

I was going to write a generic safe list, but since I have to be honest...

1) I have no idea. Priceless the Myth of Fair Value, or something. Books blur for me, badly.

2) I don't read fiction. Maybe I'll allot time to it again someday

3) I really like Cass Sunstein's books whenever I get a chance to read them. Not sure if I can place a favorite

4) see 2

5) Mindless Eating + Myth of Choice.

Recent additions: Habit: the 95% of Behavior Marketers Ignore, and Scarcity: Why having Too Little Means so Much

[–]lorentz65DEMAND FOR THE DEMAND GOD! 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

Ayy me too. Everytime I'm asked one of these questions, it's like I've forgotten all the books I've ever read.

[–]devinejohSecretary of the Bitcoin Treasury 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Shake hands with the devil, one of the best books on the rawandan genocide written by Romero dellaire

heart of darkness, I dunno, it always resonated with me

Don't have a favourite

Stig Larsson, girls at my school (in canada) seem to love him, so it's a great opener when I tell them I'm a swede.

Walden, on war, the illiad, wealth of nations, Russian lit in general (war and peace, Dr zhvago (sp)

[–]besttrousers"Then again, I have pegged you for a Neoclassical/Austrian." 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Here's one and two. 3-5 are a bit harder.

  • Favorite nonfiction book? - The Ghost Map, Steven Berlin Johnson

  • 2. Favorite fiction book? - The City and the City, China Mieville

[–]___OccamsChainsaw___Garrett 4 Fed Gov. 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Leather Daddy is here to show all you wayward children the way. You should post your own answers b/t/w Integrals.

  1. Beyond Good and Evil

  2. Blood Meridian. Or Infinite Jest. Or Catch-22. Or Paradise Lost. Or Crime and Punishment. Or Faust. Or Mason & Dixon. Or Stoner.

  3. Wittgenstein

  4. DFW

  5. The Stranger, The Pale King, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and Philosophical Investigations, Beyond Good and Evil, and The Brothers Karamazov.

[–]BaratheonEconomistMeta-Cognition 0ポイント1ポイント  (3子コメント)

I'm going to exclude my answers in question five from one and two, since there'd be some overlap.

  1. I actually really enjoyed Alan Greenspan's autobiography.

  2. Dune.

  3. Probably Milton Friedman.

  4. H.P. Lovecraft.

  5. Well, let's see:

  • Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is a beautifully evocative and thought-provoking book. It will always have a special place on my bookshelf.

  • 1984 was a similarly beautiful book.

  • Sam Harris's The Moral Landscape was influential in shaping my views on morality.

  • The Forever War was also very enjoyable for me; I can't really put it into words, but something about that book spoke to me.

  • And, of course, what kind of person would I be if I didn't mention All Quiet on the Western Front.

Special mention to Emily Dickinson's poem, I Felt a Funeral, in my Brain which hits close to home for personal reasons.

[–]___OccamsChainsaw___Garrett 4 Fed Gov. 2ポイント3ポイント  (2子コメント)

Sam Harris's The Moral Landscape was influential in shaping my views on morality.

Ohhhhhh. That explains it then.

[–]BaratheonEconomistMeta-Cognition 0ポイント1ポイント  (1子コメント)

You ever read anything by Jonathan Haidt? His book The Righteous Mind also deserves a mention, and it's really entertaining to watch Harris and Haidt fight with each other.

[–]___OccamsChainsaw___Garrett 4 Fed Gov. 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I have not. I did read Harris' book though. I didn't like it. What were he and Haidt fighting about?

[–]lorentz65DEMAND FOR THE DEMAND GOD! 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

  1. Don't read that much nonfiction. One that I've been intermitently reading recently and have generally enjoyed is Quantum Theory by David Bohm
  2. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
  3. N/A
  4. I don't know. I don't have my book collection with me while writing this comment. I'm really quick to forget what I've read. Though, the writer whose work stands out in my memory is Edith Wharton.
  5. Let me think about this a bit. This is a biggie. I'll update each of my answers as I think about it/ remember more.

[–]SenorFluffyInvisible Foot 8ポイント9ポイント  (0子コメント)

Whew. I had thought wumbo had died since there was no sticky yesterday. Got to get my daily sticky fix.

[–]geerussell 6ポイント7ポイント  (0子コメント)

lol, so that happened.

[–]NewmanTheScofflawGeorge Smiley 7ポイント8ポイント  (1子コメント)

You wanna know how I sleep at night, I don't care about neoliberalism's definition because it doesn't matter.

299 comments left before wumbo implodes. Talk about poor forward guidance.

[–]geerussell 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

Seen on twitter: @ModeledBehavior and @nick_bunker debate whether the glass of David Brooks minimum wage badeconomics is half full or runneth over. With bonus shotsfired at Krugman.

[–]CutOffUrJohnsonResident Free Market Marx-Leninist 3ポイント4ポイント  (3子コメント)

Fuck one, marry one, kill one for economists.

Yeah I hate myself too.

[–]wumbotarianI want to be the Walrasian Auctioneer when I grow up[S] 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Can we not?

[–]say_wot_againConfirmed for Google bigwig 0ポイント1ポイント  (1子コメント)

Holy shit this off-season is long.

Oh wait, this isn't /r/nfl. Marry Yellen (UNLIMITED POWER!), kill Arrow (nothing against him; he's just really old), and fuck... Uhhhhh...???

[–]devinejohSecretary of the Bitcoin Treasury 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I'm sorry to say but the primary sport of this subreddit is hockey, and since the two top mods are from toronto, this is leafs nation.

[–]besttrousers"Then again, I have pegged you for a Neoclassical/Austrian." 5ポイント6ポイント  (2子コメント)

FIFTH!

[–]somegurkWhy doesn't modern medicine use more leaches? 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Looks like you have a fan club first time I saw you downvoted here and that was a pretty inoffensive comment.

[–]lorentz65DEMAND FOR THE DEMAND GOD! 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

http://b86a38.medialib.glogster.com/media/4a6cc9363ef1a9a2951770d7d46121949b534572c049b765a03e31d1d31701d8/plead-the-fifth.jpg

[–]jieling 2ポイント3ポイント  (1子コメント)

guys im super out of the loop because I was actually productive with my energy as a production factor paper lately and I don't get the humans are horses inside joke. Now I feel left out and unwelcome :(

[–]lorentz65DEMAND FOR THE DEMAND GOD! 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

You're always welcome! Productivity! Yay!

[–]Homeboy_Jesus 4ポイント5ポイント  (4子コメント)

Holy hell I got here before there were 100+ comments. Now what do I post?!

Oh, I've got a question for the mods. Are FB screenshots legit in this sub? I mean it's not like there's an abundance of content and I see some pretty ridiculous stuff coming from people on my friends list.

[–]say_wot_againConfirmed for Google bigwig 5ポイント6ポイント  (3子コメント)

I've seen it done before. Just RI it and make sure to blur names, profile pics, and other identifying information.

[–]Homeboy_Jesus 6ポイント7ポイント  (1子コメント)

... You're not a mod, you're a horse

[–]wumbotarianI want to be the Walrasian Auctioneer when I grow up[S] 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

nice flair

[–]somegurkWhy doesn't modern medicine use more leaches? 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Any suggestions for reading around the topic of policy design/implementation/failure more specifically between nations states (I'm thinking of the EU). About how consensus is decided on about what policies should be introduced and how stated goals may not align with impacts. I have a moderate knowledge of social choice theory and game theory.

[–]geerussell 1ポイント2ポイント  (8子コメント)

Marvel's 'War on Capitalism'. Discuss.

[–]Babahoyo 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

I think you could write a decent cultural criticism book about "neoliberalism" in the media. Namely that as far as I've read, a lot of cultural thought in the last 30 years has been under the assumption that our media and society glorifies consumerism and capitalism. Is that really true anymore? Our culture seems inundated with critiquing its own shallowness and consumption. How should this change or public discourse?

[–]MoneyChurchDickey-Fuller? I hardly know her! 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

Something that was in the back of my mind during Ant Man was, why was Hank Pym so focused on how his invention could be weaponized? Sure, it would have military applications, but that sort of technology would have boundless medical applications as well. Keeping it secret definitely isn't unambiguously welfare enhancing.

[–]CutlasssI am the Lord your Gold 1ポイント2ポイント  (5子コメント)

Who else was left for an enemy? Communism's dead. Can't use that anymore. Fascism is problematical, in that if you're not using actual Nazis then making the distinction plain either takes a heavy handedness which doesn't play well, or far too much screen time to get the subtleties across. Can't use Islam, for it's far too touchy a subject (recall that in Ironman 1 even the Afghani badguys weren't Islamic badguys!). Can't use Christian radicals because, you know, the box office would suffer for that.

You need motive. But you can't be subtle about it, because you've only got 2 hours in the movie, and it has to be mostly action and drama, not an examination of motives.

[–]UltSomnia 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

Reddit mods, obviously.

[–]say_wot_againConfirmed for Google bigwig 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

DAE Hitler is almost as bad as wumbo?

[–]devinejohSecretary of the Bitcoin Treasury 1ポイント2ポイント  (2子コメント)

Russians (not communist per say)? Unlike the Chinese, I think they actually enjoy being the baddies

[–]say_wot_againConfirmed for Google bigwig 0ポイント1ポイント  (1子コメント)

Isn't that a little played out after the Cold War?

[–]devinejohSecretary of the Bitcoin Treasury 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

In terms of actually selling your movie? The Chinese market is simply to big in order to piss off thr censors.

Besides, the Americans need a rival. You want to know why America went to the moon? A giant fuck you to the russians. Either them or the Chinese.

[–]say_wot_againConfirmed for Google bigwig 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

Won't automod post a new one in a few hours anyway?

[–]wumbotarianI want to be the Walrasian Auctioneer when I grow up[S] 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I don't even know anymore.

[–]DrSandbagsDow Jones Propaganda Index 1ポイント2ポイント  (4子コメント)

Any mods have data on the trends in user traffic over the past couple months? I feel like ever since this thread attracted a lot of attention to us, I've seen a lot more posts get 30 points or more when usually posts only get 10-20 at most. Also, there seems to be a lot more comments in posts and more usernames with which I'm not familiar.

[–]devinejohSecretary of the Bitcoin Treasury 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

I'm heading back to the city on Sunday, I can post a screen shot of the data then.

[–]say_wot_againConfirmed for Google bigwig 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

You're welcome! :)

[–]k4rter 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

http://redditmetrics.com/r/badeconomics

[–]_Rory_T.K. Whitaker's Ghost 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Today's study; Chapter two of Wooldridge's Econometrics and lecture notes on Asset Prices and Rational Choice.

Fun day lined up...

[–]thatdamnedsalarianDisciple 2ポイント3ポイント  (3子コメント)

What's wrong with Ha-Joon Chang and his books? Specifically.

[–]_Rory_T.K. Whitaker's Ghost 0ポイント1ポイント  (1子コメント)

His views don't line up very well with the sub's.

[–]Keynes_Hayek_RapFear the Boom and the Bust 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

You too only see what you want to see!

[–]wumbotarianI want to be the Walrasian Auctioneer when I grow up[S] 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I read Bad Samaritans. Essentially, he cherry-picks data, doesn't control for confounding variables, makes generalized statements that are dubious at best and doesn't really like using mathematical models.

That Change writes books about international trade instead of writing journal articles about international trade is telling. There's nothing wrong with book writing, but the best authors out there are ones who publish frequently as well (usually).

If Chang wanted to upset the economics profession's belief in free trade and skepticism of infant industry arguments, he would write in journals. Instead, he writes books for laypeople and tells everyone that economics is all politics and ideology.

[–]devinejohSecretary of the Bitcoin Treasury 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I tell yah it's nice to be done with your degree requirements by 3rd year, easy history courses and econ seminar classes only. Still have to figure out my senior thesis though.