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expiredheliosnine posted Mar 11, 2023 10:03 PM
expiredheliosnine posted Mar 11, 2023 10:03 PM

Free Audiobooks - Essential Scholars Series (Adam Smith, Milton Friedman, John Locke, more) - Google Play Store

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Free Audiobooks - Essential Scholars - Google Play Store

Book 1 - The Essential Hayek
https://play.google.com/store/aud...AEDCRwgH2M
Book 2 - The Essential Adam Smith
https://play.google.com/store/aud...AEDCYxcjxM
Book 3 - The Essential Milton Friedman
https://play.google.com/store/aud...AEDCxziH6M
Book 4 - The Essential John Locke
https://play.google.com/store/aud...AEAionTiRM
Book 5 - The Essential Joseph Schumpeter
https://play.google.com/store/aud...AEAihCjEGM
Book 7 - The Essential Austrian Economics
https://play.google.com/store/aud...AEDC-1u7iM
Book 8 - The Essential David Hume
https://play.google.com/store/aud...AEDC-0e7lM
Book 9 - The Essential John Stuart Mill
https://play.google.com/store/aud...AEDCR1EHgM
Book 10 - The Essential James Buchanan
https://play.google.com/store/aud...AEDCR0AHkM
Book 11 - The Essential UCLA School of Economics
https://play.google.com/store/aud...AEDChzPH4M
Book 15 - The Essential Women of Liberty
https://play.google.com/store/aud...AEAihA7EPM

Free Audiobooks - Writing guides - Google Play Store

Bachelor's Thesis: A Step-by-Step Writing Guide
https://play.google.com/store/aud...AEACO0x7XM
Master's/Ph.D. Thesis: A Step-by-Step Writing Guide
https://play.google.com/store/aud...AEACe1s7SM
Making The Grade: A Guide to Essay Writing Like a Pro
https://play.google.com/store/aud...AEDsbnQuiM
Scientific Figures and Tables: Quick Tips
https://play.google.com/store/aud...AEACmiraOM
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Free Audiobooks - Essential Scholars - Google Play Store

Book 1 - The Essential Hayek
https://play.google.com/store/aud...AEDCRwgH2M
Book 2 - The Essential Adam Smith
https://play.google.com/store/aud...AEDCYxcjxM
Book 3 - The Essential Milton Friedman
https://play.google.com/store/aud...AEDCxziH6M
Book 4 - The Essential John Locke
https://play.google.com/store/aud...AEAionTiRM
Book 5 - The Essential Joseph Schumpeter
https://play.google.com/store/aud...AEAihCjEGM
Book 7 - The Essential Austrian Economics
https://play.google.com/store/aud...AEDC-1u7iM
Book 8 - The Essential David Hume
https://play.google.com/store/aud...AEDC-0e7lM
Book 9 - The Essential John Stuart Mill
https://play.google.com/store/aud...AEDCR1EHgM
Book 10 - The Essential James Buchanan
https://play.google.com/store/aud...AEDCR0AHkM
Book 11 - The Essential UCLA School of Economics
https://play.google.com/store/aud...AEDChzPH4M
Book 15 - The Essential Women of Liberty
https://play.google.com/store/aud...AEAihA7EPM

Free Audiobooks - Writing guides - Google Play Store

Bachelor's Thesis: A Step-by-Step Writing Guide
https://play.google.com/store/aud...AEACO0x7XM
Master's/Ph.D. Thesis: A Step-by-Step Writing Guide
https://play.google.com/store/aud...AEACe1s7SM
Making The Grade: A Guide to Essay Writing Like a Pro
https://play.google.com/store/aud...AEDsbnQuiM
Scientific Figures and Tables: Quick Tips
https://play.google.com/store/aud...AEACmiraOM

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Mar 14, 2023 09:58 PM
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1-6Mar 14, 2023 09:58 PM
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Where's Book 6?

Edit: Here's a fuller list: https://essentialscholars.myshopi...-ascending

Sorry, my 2023 paranoia kicks in when something seems missing.
Last edited by 1-6 March 14, 2023 at 03:04 PM.
Mar 15, 2023 01:48 AM
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sundered_starMar 15, 2023 01:48 AM
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Quote from ustoRusta :
Economists never make the rules, they can advise, and that's it. Politicians make rules. Economists suppose to research laws of economy and society they live in but these eCONomists chose to defends 19th century system, outdated one. Fairly consistently failing to predict economic downturns and depressions. .
Yeah, it's probably fair to add that nobody actually listens to them. Or worse, they choose to listen to the ones who are most wrong.

Doesn't mean that economics is nonsense philosophy. Just means we are too stupid, gullible, and greedy to make use of them.

Predicting a bank run? Easy peasy. Doing anything qbout it? Impossible.
Last edited by crinttae March 14, 2023 at 06:57 PM.
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Mar 15, 2023 12:10 PM
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bert90987Mar 15, 2023 12:10 PM
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thanks OP
Mar 15, 2023 02:11 PM
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euuser288937Mar 15, 2023 02:11 PM
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Quote from MitchJ :
So does anybody know if these are good readers, or like the amateur ones you get at Libre Vox?
Go on line in your public library. They have thousands of audio books and it's easy to make them yourself forever
Mar 15, 2023 03:55 PM
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crackshot87Mar 15, 2023 03:55 PM
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Quote from DanielC8785 :
Say what you want about Austrian economic tradition, the fact that the makers of this series are so careful to avoid coming across as being firmly from that tradition's perspective goes to show they're trying to pray on naivete. if you saw an audiobook series from a Marxist economics perspective, whose bookcovers and ad copy portrayed as itself as "the essential yada yada" like it's a neutral college lecture on classic literature or something, you would know something's fishy.
The austrian and chicago schools basically screwed up the field of economics for an entire century. Only recently actual scientific methods have been brought back in and have revealed most of of what Friedman and co have said had no basis in reality when actually measured.
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Mar 15, 2023 08:55 PM
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slackerrudieMar 15, 2023 08:55 PM
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No audio book for What is to be Done? I see all the libertarian loonies represented. Why not give that old commie Lenin some audio book attention. lol

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Mar 15, 2023 09:10 PM
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triclops41Mar 15, 2023 09:10 PM
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Quote from ustoRusta :
Economists never make the rules, they can advise, and that's it. Politicians make rules. Economists suppose to research laws of economy and society they live in but these eCONomists chose to defends 19th century system, outdated one. Fairly consistently failing to predict economic downturns and depressions. .

I can guarantee you haven't read them, and are basing this on second, third or 10th hand accounts.

The funny thing is that you would likely find many of these eCONvomitomists more reasonable than the cartoon caricatures the right and left paint of them.
Mar 16, 2023 11:12 AM
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MitchJMar 16, 2023 11:12 AM
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Quote from DanielC8785 :
Say what you want about Austrian economic tradition, the fact that the makers of this series are so careful to avoid coming across as being firmly from that tradition's perspective goes to show they're trying to pray on naivete. if you saw an audiobook series from a Marxist economics perspective, whose bookcovers and ad copy portrayed as itself as "the essential yada yada" like it's a neutral college lecture on classic literature or something, you would know something's fishy.
This happens absolutely constantly from the leftist perspective. In fact it's extremely rare that it doesn't happen when leftists are doing it.
Mar 16, 2023 11:15 AM
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MitchJMar 16, 2023 11:15 AM
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Quote from crackshot87 :
The austrian and chicago schools basically screwed up the field of economics for an entire century. Only recently actual scientific methods have been brought back in and have revealed most of of what Friedman and co have said had no basis in reality when actually measured.
The giveaway that you're full of shit is that there's no such thing as "scientific methods" in economics. What makes science science is controlled experiments and what makes economics not-science is that you can't do controlled experiments. So I have no idea what you might be referring to, if anything, but I don't need to know what you might be referring to to know you're full of shit.
Mar 16, 2023 11:36 AM
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SmilingGazelle2375Mar 16, 2023 11:36 AM
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I would love to learn about the topics/people covered, regardless of the criticisms posted here. It'd still be a history lesson.
However, when you look up the publisher (Fraser Institute) it leaves a taste in my mouth. In short, they are funded by some hard right leaning people and support libertarian views from deregulation of tobacco, firearms, oil, etc. So while the narrators are likely pretty good, I wouldn't be sure about the objectivity of the content...
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crackshot87Mar 16, 2023 11:52 AM
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Quote from MitchJ :
The giveaway that you're full of shit is that there's no such thing as "scientific methods" in economics. What makes science science is controlled experiments and what makes economics not-science is that you can't do controlled experiments. So I have no idea what you might be referring to, if anything, but I don't need to know what you might be referring to to know you're full of shit.

Your hyper-aggresive ad-hominin aside, the Card & Kruger paper on minimum wages demonstrate that for some scenarios one could perform experiments and scientifically measure a hypothesis.

https://apnews.com/article/nobel-...8b52c2bb32


Empiricism and more efforts at diversity in the field has made some early in-roads to undo the intellectual damage and corruption of the field of the past 100 years.


Meanwhile, it's quite telling that Friedman & co's entire Chicago school of thought was based upon an intentionally corrupted interpretation of Adam Smith (and even Hayek)'s works to force-fit a lassez-faire narrative

https://www.cambridge.org/core/jo...ED9EC3EABC
Last edited by crackshot87 March 16, 2023 at 04:56 AM.
Mar 16, 2023 02:51 PM
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sundered_starMar 16, 2023 02:51 PM
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Quote from crackshot87 :
Your hyper-aggresive ad-hominin aside, the Card & Kruger paper on minimum wages demonstrate that for some scenarios one could perform experiments and scientifically measure a hypothesis.

https://apnews.com/article/nobel-...8b52c2bb32 [apnews.com]


Empiricism and more efforts at diversity in the field has made some early in-roads to undo the intellectual damage and corruption of the field of the past 100 years.


Meanwhile, it's quite telling that Friedman & co's entire Chicago school of thought was based upon an intentionally corrupted interpretation of Adam Smith (and even Hayek)'s works to force-fit a lassez-faire narrative

https://www.cambridge.org/core/jo...ED9EC3EABC [cambridge.org]
Why do you have such very big feelings about Friedman?

He was a boring guy. Most of what he said was common sense. And he wasn't even that extreme. He advocated for things like basic income and (some level) of universal health care.

Seems like a weird guy to hate.
Last edited by crinttae March 16, 2023 at 07:57 AM.
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CellNecrosisMar 16, 2023 04:06 PM
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You can easily tell who the (wannabe) communists are in this thread.

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larry_hehehahaMar 16, 2023 06:53 PM
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Quote from MacsAre1 :
I want The Essential Salma Hayek
google image search gives good results

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