favorite economist?

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In no particular order, the sincere list:
  1. Thomas Sowell - Principled, empirical, one of the few people whose work I've seen IRL break the adage of 'you can't reason with irrational people'.

  2. Irwin Schiff - Peter Schiff's father, an economist who refused to pay federal taxes on principle (akin to John McAfee), ended up in federal prison for 13 years before dying (RIP to them both). Definitely not a strategic choice, but I cannot pretend that his steadfastness isn't worth some respect.

  3. Aaron Clarey - a.k.a. 'Captain Capitalism', an ex-economist who got burnt out and built his own eclectic brand ('Asshole Consulting'), pro-minimalist, pro-crypto, anti-fiat, has a lot of useful content for young Western bachelors trying to make sense of the world they operate in (minus the Manosphere bravado).
The comedic list:
  • Richard Wolff - Pro-communist economist, was a darling among the strange Bread people on Youtube, seemingly less so after a very bizarre 'debate' with everyone's favorite Runescape-playing stripper, Destiny

  • Peter Schiff - The gold-bug somehow bit him harder during the ascent of cryptocurrency - Still respect him on some level, though his hard-headedness towards the hypothetical and practical use-cases of crypto - alongside the doubling-down for gold - is pretty stupefying to see. He suffers from the same Molyneux-type orbit around Planet BTC (doesn't care to significantly acknowledge the altcoins).
  • Donald Harris - Kamala 'Not Real Black' Harris' Jamaican father, who bluntly admonished her loudly in public for cynically deploying thuggish tropes of Jamaicans on The Breakfast Show (eg. cannabis use, listening to 2Pac well before he become Number One Number 1 in Serbia)
 
Systemsprenger said:
Aaron Clarey - a.k.a. 'Captain Capitalism', an ex-economist who got burnt out and built his own eclectic brand ('Asshole Consulting'), pro-minimalist, pro-crypto, anti-fiat, has a lot of useful content for young Western bachelors trying to make sense of the world they operate in (minus the Manosphere bravado).
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Looked this guy up to see what he was about, just because I liked the idea of someone operating doing his own thing like that.
Won me over with this video about quitting jobs on short notice.
 
Zulu Warrior said:
Looked this guy up to see what he was about, just because I liked the idea of someone operating doing his own thing like that.
Won me over with this video about quitting jobs on short notice.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=PAuNaLPychQ
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Indeed, Aaron Clarey is good people. His emphasis on minimalism, strategic life and personal decisions and financial self-reliance has enriched me quite well over the years. He has quite a few books out - Bachelor Pad Economics and the Book of Numbers are worth checking.

Glad to have shared him on, friend!
 
Gregory Mannarino is the only guy I really pay attention too. He seems to know his head from his ass. Sam Hyde recommended him.
 
albert chan said:
Does Thomas Sowell count?
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Systemsprenger said:
In no particular order, the sincere list:
  1. Thomas Sowell - Principled, empirical, one of the few people whose work I've seen IRL break the adage of 'you can't reason with irrational people'.

  2. Irwin Schiff - Peter Schiff's father, an economist who refused to pay federal taxes on principle (akin to John McAfee), ended up in federal prison for 13 years before dying (RIP to them both). Definitely not a strategic choice, but I cannot pretend that his steadfastness isn't worth some respect.

  3. Aaron Clarey - a.k.a. 'Captain Capitalism', an ex-economist who got burnt out and built his own eclectic brand ('Asshole Consulting'), pro-minimalist, pro-crypto, anti-fiat, has a lot of useful content for young Western bachelors trying to make sense of the world they operate in (minus the Manosphere bravado).
The comedic list:
  • Richard Wolff - Pro-communist economist, was a darling among the strange Bread people on Youtube, seemingly less so after a very bizarre 'debate' with everyone's favorite Runescape-playing stripper, Destiny

  • Peter Schiff - The gold-bug somehow bit him harder during the ascent of cryptocurrency - Still respect him on some level, though his hard-headedness towards the hypothetical and practical use-cases of crypto - alongside the doubling-down for gold - is pretty stupefying to see. He suffers from the same Molyneux-type orbit around Planet BTC (doesn't care to significantly acknowledge the altcoins).
  • Donald Harris - Kamala 'Not Real Black' Harris' Jamaican father, who bluntly admonished her loudly in public for cynically deploying thuggish tropes of Jamaicans on The Breakfast Show (eg. cannabis use, listening to 2Pac well before he become Number One Number 1 in Serbia)
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sowell is a reddit core pick but at least you did not pick krugman
Jann_Hörn said:
von Hayek, cool name and cooler book

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true CHAD option. fun fact hayek owned a samurai sword
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Gottfried Feder. One of the first to understand the dangers of financial speculation and of giving monetary control to private banks.
Comparison of the industrial capital to the loan-based capital.
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Gary North. Wrong about Y2K and open-borders-free-trade, but that's about it. He wrote a commentary on the Bible explaining how the Bible teaches free-market economics. Used to advise Ron Paul, back in the day. Developed the Ron Paul curriculum used by many homeschoolers. Et cetera.

He is my favourite boomer.
 
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