If you could pick a couple books or movies that would be required reading for everyone -in order to get this country back on the right track...what would they be?

I'll toss out a couple favs to start the ball rolling...

1. The Incredible Bread Machine - R.W. Grant.

Easy to digest treatise on liberty.

"Individualism maintains that the individual is justified in pursuing his own self-interest, and that, accordingly, he is not morally obligated to place the welfare of the "group" above his own"


2. The Road to Serfdom - F.A. Hayek
"The principle that the ends justifies the means in individualist ethics is regarded as the denial of all morals. In collectivist ethics it becomes necessarily the supreme rule."

3. Secrets of the Millionaire Mind - T. Harv Eker
Excellent and inspiring book on how our pyschological relationship with money affects our personal economic success.

"Rich people play the money game to win. Poor people play the money game to not lose"

11/15/2006 11:24:27 PM

More like point-table.

It's kinda upsetting when people engage in philosophy with a specific end-game in mind.

[Edited on November 15, 2006 at 11:35 PM. Reason : .]

11/15/2006 11:33:30 PM

This is a cult.

11/15/2006 11:35:54 PM

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"he is not morally obligated to place the welfare of the "group" above his own""

OK I can see the whole overthrow the government and install anarchy, but you think you can change morals without enforcing anything?

11/16/2006 12:24:36 AM

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"It's kinda upsetting when people engage in philosophy with a specific end-game in mind."

OOH OOH! I've got some bait for this game!

ROBIN HOOD!

11/16/2006 12:24:57 AM

Lord of the Flies - William Golding

11/16/2006 12:25:18 AM

Communsit Manifesto - Karl Marx

11/16/2006 12:25:49 AM

Das Kapital
"What is to be Done?"
Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
Quotations from Chairman Mao
The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money


[Edited on November 16, 2006 at 12:30 AM. Reason : .]

11/16/2006 12:29:26 AM

Galbraith's The New Industrial State is really good

11/16/2006 12:42:30 AM

more like "Welcome to The Didactic Douchebag Book Roundtable"

11/16/2006 12:43:48 AM

Do Kris and PinkandBlack have any books to recommend that were at least published within the last 38 years? Geez, is there no new work proposing statist authoritarianism?

11/16/2006 12:51:53 AM

I think Akerlof's Efficiency Wage Models of the Labor Market is within that timeframe

But I thought we were naming really good ones moreso than really recent ones.

11/16/2006 12:56:44 AM

Friedman's "The Lexus and the Olivde Tree" is on point

11/16/2006 1:13:54 AM

friedman is an ass

11/16/2006 1:14:38 AM

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"Galbraith's The New Industrial State is really good"

OK so I'm curious. Why does this make the Kris List?

11/16/2006 2:01:15 AM

It focuses on imperfect competition in the modern economy.

11/16/2006 2:09:58 AM

um, before someone says anything, my list was 100% fake. ive only read one of those books (Mao), and it was for a paper on chinese agrarian history.

so before you expose your party lines, realize that i seriously dont care.

[Edited on November 16, 2006 at 2:19 AM. Reason : .]

11/16/2006 2:18:53 AM

The Choice, Russell Roberts
Takes about 25 minutes

Not a book, but a parable
Petition of the Candlemakers, Bastiat

11/16/2006 7:25:27 AM

^

Bastiat. Excellent. "The Law" should be required reading for all.

11/16/2006 9:18:50 AM

Who would enforce that? Government schools?

11/16/2006 9:24:37 AM

Gov't bureaucrats would have little to gain by requiring students to read "The Law".

They would rather have kids read "The Rainbow Fish" or "Why Mommy is a Democrat"

11/16/2006 9:58:32 AM