So, I’ll start by admitting that I’m no expert when it comes to economics. In fact the only formal economics training I’ve had were one or two rather poorly taught undergraduate courses at Cornfield University in Nowhere Indiana that left me thinking economists (John Maynard Keynes in particular) were completely full of crap. Then, years later a friend of mine introduced me to Henry Hazlitt’s awesome little book
Economics in One Lesson which, to my surprise and delight, gave the same answers to some of the garbage put forth in my undergraduate economics class that I gave. I’ve since read a little Ludwig von Mises, Milton Friedman and Adam Smith and I’ve found that economics is actually very interesting.