Ask HN: What are your favorite books or essays written at least 100 years ago?

Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite books or essays written at... by bmmayer1 on Sunday September 08, 2019 @09:45PM (#20914562)

Economics:

- The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith

- Das Kapital, Karl Marx

- That Which Is Seen, and That Which Is Not Seen, Frederic Bastiat

Philosophy / Politics:

- The Republic, Plato

- Second Treatise on Government, John Locke

- The Law, Frederic Bastiat

- Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes

- Meditations, Marcus Aurelius

- Democracy in America, Alexis de Toqueville

- On Liberty, John Stuart Mill

Fiction:

- The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, Mark Twain

- The Story of an Hour, Kate Chopin

- Metamorphoses, Franz Kafka

- Candide, Voltaire

- The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas

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Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite books or essays written at... by protomyth on Monday September 09, 2019 @07:38AM (#20917175)

If you are going to read Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, then you should probably read The Theory of Moral Sentiments first. It helps with the understanding.

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Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite books or essays written at... by oh-moses on Monday September 09, 2019 @02:50AM (#20915788)

I second That Which Is Seen by Bastiat, nice and short intro to economic way of thinking

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