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CellBioGuy comments on Open Thread March 31 - April 7 2014 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: ahbwramc 01 April 2014 02:07:49AM 4 points [-]

Continuing the use of LW as my source for non-fiction recommendations...

Any suggestions on a decent popular-but-not-too-dumbed-down intro to Economics?

Comment author: CellBioGuy 01 April 2014 08:11:23AM *  -1 points [-]

As a counterpoint to most of the other recommendations you are about to get:

Debunking Economics by Steve Keen. Thesis is basically that many of the assumptions of economics (especially macroeconomics) are at odds with reality enough that it doesn't actually work that well. Gets into some interesting modelling that the author has done as well using a different basis.