I've been poking around Amazon most of the night looking at some old economic books. Most of the books that I've read and bought were published in the 20th and 21st centuries, with obvious exceptions like Plato's Republic and Thoreau's Walden. It has me wondering how old is your reading material? Is there something inherently uncool about reading 200+ year old books? Is the new the only thing worth reading or just the easiest to be found?
Reading a book written 150, 200, or more years ago might actually be good for me and everyone else. I'm tempted to pick up an oldie about economics, though a book about how socialism wins out is tempting just to see the argument. With the latter though I think that's an easy proof: you socialize one thing, why not the second, ad infitum with much rejoicing from the masses because everything is free.
In the end I'm left with a typical online book buying experience of "damn, I have a lot of Amazon tabs open. I need to get this down to at least two and make a decision, but but..."
