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Just read. One book that has stayed constantly on my bookcase, in my suitcase, under my bed, [alternate preposition location + noun location] is Blaug, Economic Theory in Retrospect.

It is quite fantastic.

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Blaug is a history of economic though and is far from "practical way". Moreover what concerns me is that Blaug wrote the book way before I was born i.e. over 30 years ago[1]. There are things we simply know better today, a lot of things happened even since 1997 when the book was published in a new edition, there is a lot of new data concerning the recent crisis and measures applied by governments to mitigate the problem.

But nevertheless a great read!

[1] - no startups, no long-tail, no hi-tech hype, no big data, no Zuckerberg... the list is long...

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