It's opinionated in its approach, in that it stems from students and instructors believing conceptual economic education as it exists today is fundamentally broken and fails to address inequality effectively.
http://www.core-econ.org/the-economy/book/text/0-3-contents....
Have you heard of Keynes, Smith, Marx, Locke, Rousseau, Hobbes, Emerson, Tolstoy, or Conrad? Great! Each of them has no less than three legendary books that you can spend weeks to months to years studying. Computer science is a bit different in that the landscape is fresh and the resources constantly shifting and growing, but the old fields, as always, can be studied safely on ink and paper.
You start with one author, you go through his or her influences, contemporaries, pupils, and you are guaranteed to have a healthy amount of daily reading material.