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Everyone who recommended basic macroeconomic books, can you please recommend a book that doesn't apply specifically only to the US (I'm sure some of those listed already applies) but works for Europe as well?

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god is not great - christopher hitchens

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I was flipping through channels the other day and saw this rumpled alcoholic misanthrope on Chris Matthews debating Al Sharpton. I lasted about 3 nanoseconds before all three of them annoyed the living crap out of me.

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I am surprised Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand hasn't been mentioned. Although a little slow at times, it very clearly shows the folly of communism.

Two other books, The Gulag Archipelago by Alexander Solzhenitsyn is a great book if you really want to get into the nuts and bolts of how people were treated in the USSR.

If you are a sports fan, Moneyball should be read because it will completely change your idea of how conventional wisdom in baseball usually isn't.

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god is not great - christopher hitchens

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I was flipping through channels the other day and saw this rumpled alcoholic misanthrope on Chris Matthews debating Al Sharpton. I lasted about 3 nanoseconds before all three of them annoyed the living crap out of me.

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he's a hero of mine but whatever

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I am surprised Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand hasn't been mentioned. Although a little slow at times, it very clearly shows the folly of communism.

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Who's a communist these days?

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Everyone who recommended basic macroeconomic books, can you please recommend a book that doesn't apply specifically only to the US (I'm sure some of those listed already applies) but works for Europe as well?

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I'd love to read something that isn't a pulp science book like Freakonomics, and that isn't a textbook.

Think 'basic primer'...

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War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges