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This is not at all a serious syllabus on this topic. I cannot understand the inclusion of ChatGPT.

If you want a nice, single-volume history try Roger backhouse’s “the ordinary business of life”, soon to come in a second edition.

There is a much older book by schumpeter but it’s extremely dated as well as overly long.

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Or just read Samuelson's or Mankiw's Intro Econ textbook. There's a reason those 2 are used everywhere from AP Econ all the way to intro Econ classes at MIT and Harvard.

Sure those are great textbooks. If you want the history of economic thought though you might be more interested in the people and times which led to the ideas in the book. You won’t get enough of that in mankiw.

As to why the mankiw book is used at Harvard… maybe we should have a talk about monopolies… ;)

That’s just a joke it’s a good textbook but its status as the standard at Harvard is only partially related to its quality.

But you can understand the inclusion of Phind and PerplexityAI(whatever that is)?

Perplexity is actually pretty good. The main one was probably first to access internet in the responses. Even better, the labs site gives access to models with uncensored versions of models with zero guardrails. Has some pretty good quality models to select from, too, including Mixtral 8x7B. You ever wonder how to make crack? Just ask Perplexity Labs.

Not at all!

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