I’ll follow up your recommendations. Thanks.TomAiello wrote: ↑Mon Jul 13, 2020 7:01 pmI've already read Capital and The Communist Manifesto (both are on my shelf in our home library actually), but if you can recommend any good socialist-oriented economic works (maybe someone more recent than Marx), I'd be interested to read them. Keynes doesn't count--I'm super current on Keynes.
Just for entertainment value, have you seen the Keynes v. Hayek rap on Youtube?
https://youtu.be/d0nERTFo-Sk&t=37s
https://youtu.be/GTQnarzmTOc
If you're actually interested in and reasonably informed about the economics they're pretty funny. For most people, they're kind of pointless though.
Side note; I found Niall Kishtainy's A Little History of Economics to be a really nice overview of the development of economic thought, with a ton of references to guide me to further reading. If you're interested in this kind of stuff, I highly recommend it.
https://www.amazon.com/Little-History-E ... 0300206364
I think you’ll find David Harvey (a geographer, like me, it so happens) has worked Marx’s model to make it account for what we’re seeing today (as here: https://socialistregister.com/index.php ... /5811/2707). Harvey’s polemic-free clarity and his rigor are really on display in his online courses on Capital (http://davidharvey.org/reading-capital/).
To get the flavor, cut to the chase here: http://davidharvey.org/2012/02/reading- ... -class-02/