What books can I read to understand the economic Schools?

by lord_puppy_

Hi everyone!

I already have a basic understanding of economics (Mankiw, Sowell...) but am still out pf the water whenever the schools get brought in (that is keynesian... And so forth)

What schools should I be familiar with and what can I read to understand each of them?

Thanks!!

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Any macroeconomic course should be able to tell you what schools exist. Check Coursera or MIT's OpenCourseWare.

Well known schools are:

  • Keynesianism (Keynes, obviously)
  • Monetarism (Milton Friedman)
  • Austrian School (Ludwig van Mises; stay away from the self-same institute, it is a think thank)
  • Chicago School (University of Chicago)

The folks over at r/Economics and r/BadEconomics should have stuff in their wikis on these schools of thought.