The Economist Magazine

[Viva Fidel]

Does anyone read/buy this magazine? Is it any good?

I'm trying to study economics and I plan to take it in college.

Are there other alternatives to this? Thanks.

[ComradeRed]

The Economist is an interesting magazine in the sense that it gives the reader clear insight into the "inner workings" of the capitalist (bourgeois pseudo) scholar's mind.

It gives a broad spectrum of news (in the sense of locations) compared to other bourgeois media sources.

Its economics are tragicomically flawed. I would not suggest (no, I'd advise against) using it as a "textbook".

Some of its website is free to see (economist.com (http://economist.com)), though not a lot.

I'd also advice against major-ing in economics unless you go to the New School or Cambridge or somewhere of the sort that has Marxist and alternative schools of thought.

[Viva Fidel]

I was planning on taking economics at UC Berkeley

[ComradeRed]

Sorry, but they have reactionary economics (as reactionary as Harvard :o). They don't have heterodox economics, it's "bad" for their reputation to have people that think and are involved in bourgeois economics.

I was just skimming their lecture notes from previous years, and it is very unimpressive. I'm sorry to inform you that they don't have anything that's even liberal in economics.

[Pawn Power]

Originally posted by [email protected] 11 2006, 09:45 PM
Sorry, but they have reactionary economics (as reactionary as Harvard :o). They don't have heterodox economics, it's "bad" for their reputation to have people that think and are involved in bourgeois economics.

I was just skimming their lecture notes from previous years, and it is very unimpressive. I'm sorry to inform you that they don't have anything that's even liberal in economics.
Sad to say from a supposed "liberal" university. I think it reflect their true stance though; liberties but only within the capitalsit system.

[bezdomni]

Amherst has a good marxist economics program, from what I've heard.

ComradeRed basically summed it all up in a nutshell. Bastard. :P

[Angry Young Man]

Originally posted by [email protected] 12 2006, 02:34 AM
The Economist is an interesting magazine in the sense that it gives the reader clear insight into the "inner workings" of the capitalist (bourgeois pseudo) scholar's mind.

It gives a broad spectrum of news (in the sense of locations) compared to other bourgeois media sources.

Its economics are tragicomically flawed. I would not suggest (no, I'd advise against) using it as a "textbook".

Some of its website is free to see (economist.com (http://economist.com)), though not a lot.

I'd also advice against major-ing in economics unless you go to the New School or Cambridge or somewhere of the sort that has Marxist and alternative schools of thought.
Cambridge in England???!!!! You have got to be joking, right? There's about as much chance of a leftist getting there as there is in 1950's America!
Try University College London. I think I'm gonna go to Sheffield or York when it's my time. Back to the good old north where the revolution will begin. All bloody London does is hold lectures!
I'm sick of the bloody south!

[Roses in the Hospital]

Cambridge in England???!!!! You have got to be joking, right? There's about as much chance of a leftist getting there as there is in 1950's America!

Actually Cambridge has the biggest student comunist party in the country, apparantly...