Hello Antiwork –
I've been reading with occasional shitposting in here, but it's gotten me thinking quite a bit, and I realized that I don't really have any economics theory education (never took Econ in highschool, none of my college work touched on it outside of brief mentions in history or polisci). I decided to familiarize myself with some of the more prominent authors of economic philosophy and try to read them in historical order while taking them in context with the historical and political perspectives of the time and people. Mostly, I'm interested in the development of economic and corporate philosophy post-WW2. What authors should I specifically target?
Books owned so far:
Marx: Das Kapital
Keynes: The economic consequences of the peace, The general theory of Employment, Interest, and Money, A Treatise on Money
Friedman: Why Government is the Problem, Capitalism and Freedom
Drucker (Included as a predominant management theorist influencing corporate organization over the last 50 years): The Effective Executive, Managing for Results, Post-Capitalist Society, Managing in the Next Society
Do I need to go as far back as Smith to build a view on the evolution of modern economics? Are there foundational economists I should look at that shaped post WW2 economic policy? What alternate Economic theories/authors should be explored here?
Edit to add:
“Not a good fit for this sub” is fine by me. I obviously have my leanings, but I also believe in avoiding the echo chamber. If x theory is right, I want to read -x to confirm it or see if there's things that are being avoided in x to begin with because rebuttals tend to ignore valid points.