Comments on: Book Review: Where Keynes Went Wrong

By: David Merkel

David Merkel — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:33:13 +0000

Rower32 — that piece is coming.

By: Rower32

Rower32 — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:37:46 +0000

David do you have a Top 10 book list on Economic Theory for beginners? Just finished “The Myth of the Rational Market” and loved it. But I don’t know what to read next. Or let me ask the question another way, should I start with reading books on Austrian economics? Hayek? Misses? Fisher?

By: just doug

just doug — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 04:49:52 +0000

One quibble – unless you count going bust in dramatic fashion as beating the market Keynes didn’t beat the market for most of his life. So besides raising you your Mom is a better investor than Keynes.

As I like to say: Keynes was a better writer than investor and a better investor than an economist, and he went bust as an investor.

By: RichL

RichL — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:38:33 +0000

Keynes is a great read. I read The General Theory in the late 1970’s and it made no sense to me, given the economy at the time. I re-read it a few years ago, and now it sings.

Likewise, his book Essays in Persuasion is very readable and more historical in nature. He was really sharp and you’d have much to learn from these books.

By: pwm

pwm — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:27:55 +0000

Have read Hazlitt. Quality stuff. Excellent to hand to beginners.

Am reading the General Theory now. Pretty good so far.

By: Lord

Lord — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:45:22 +0000

They would do better to read the debunking of Austrians. There are solid reasons for its discretization. The General Theory is highly readable if not without flaws. Tyler Cowen did a chapter by chapter analysis that was quite interesting.