At 4:08 PM -0400 4/20/01, Faustine wrote:
>Quoting "James A. Donald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>> --
>> At 08:28 PM 4/18/2001 -0400, Faustine wrote:
>> >True, but my point was that the 'Samuelson technical stuff' has its
>> place.
>>
>> All that technical stuff is in the Friedman's books,
>
>I still think the quickest way to get a firm technical grasp of
>micro and macro
>economics is to sit down and work through problems for yourself with textbooks
>like Samuelson's and Krugman's, respectively.
Perhaps so...IF one wants to be a university-trained economist,
suitably-trained for work at Bank of America, U.S. Steel, Yale
University, etc.
Likewise, IF one wants to be a university-trained physicist, reading
Jackson's electrodynamics book is advised, as well as Weinberg's
field theory book, and so on.
Likewise....
On the other hand, the idea of a _reading list_ is not to recommend
textbooks which are for two semester courses, typically. Rather, it's
to give newcomers the basic tools to understand the gist of the
discussions.
Sorry you think people interested in Cypherpunk issues should sit
down and spend several months "working through the problems" in
Samuelson.
You need some grounding in common sense.
Inasmuch as you have not been posting interesting articles to
Cypherpunks, I have to conclude you are Yet Another Grad Student who
has discovered the list and who is now recommending that "serious
scholars" study as you claim to have studied.
Feh.
--Tim May
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