Hilarious, yet original and informative blog you have here, sir. Saw your name on the Krugman in Wonderland blog and you definitely have many of the political and economic opinions that I share. I'm highly fiscally conservative, but am pretty tolerant socially. I'm also against illegal immigration, support 2nd amendment rights, and question the idea of affirmative action and its effect on society.
I've struggled with finding a specific political label for myself for most of my life, only to figure that I'm really an independent and don't really have any specific political party affiliation or political philosophy I can 100% fit into. In fact, I pretty much voted for Republicans, Democrats, and Libertarians in the 2012 election and I'm only 18. I'm also in favor of any economic school of thought that favors laissez-faire and free market solutions to pressing economic problems, especially the Austrian and Chicago schools of economics. Limited, sensible amount of regulation to prevent crony capitalism from being inadvertently created, a limit on how much the government can spend GDP wise, and little to no corporate tax is needed in my opinion so companies will have a greater incentive to set up shop in the United States than anywhere else in the world. The Federal Reserve needs to also have a lot more oversight on its actions. We also need to make science and mathematics a much more core part of our education system. It's a shame that countries like Australia and China are outperforming the US in these subjects that are essential to economic growth and production.
I'm learning more and more about economics day by day, though I still have a lot I need to learn. Frankly, I'm just a cartoonist, but I also think it's important for a guy like me to be educated on how economics works and I've done so much of the actual learning of it on my own. I even read Greg Mankiw's Principles of Economics and took tons of notes in only a week thinking I would have been able to take the AP Macroeconomics exam during my senior year of high school.
Are there any specific history books you'd recommend so I could polish up my knowledge, especially when it comes to American politics and the origins of liberalism, conservatism, and libertarianism?
Thanks for the kind words, Roberto. Yeah, it kind of sounds like we're in the same boat; too conservative on the economic side to be a Democrat and too liberal on the social side to be a Republican (I'm probably to the left of both parties when it comes to foreign affairs but that's another story).......As for conservative and libertarian economists, I would probably recommend Amity Shlaes (her book "The Forgotten Man" is destined to be a classic), Thomas E. Woods, Robert Higgs (there's a great 3-part C-Span interview of him on youtube that is devastating), and, of course, Thomas Sowell. Of course, if you want to go back a ways, there is always Murray Rothbard, Milton Friedman (he's actually more of a monetarist who even has some liberal views such as a negative income tax but the dude is brilliant), Frederick Hayek, Ludwig Von Mises, Henry Hazlitt, etc.. Those folks will definitely float your boat, I think. Best of luck and thanks again for the visit.
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Hilarious, yet original and informative blog you have here, sir. Saw your name on the Krugman in Wonderland blog and you definitely have many of the political and economic opinions that I share. I'm highly fiscally conservative, but am pretty tolerant socially. I'm also against illegal immigration, support 2nd amendment rights, and question the idea of affirmative action and its effect on society.
I've struggled with finding a specific political label for myself for most of my life, only to figure that I'm really an independent and don't really have any specific political party affiliation or political philosophy I can 100% fit into. In fact, I pretty much voted for Republicans, Democrats, and Libertarians in the 2012 election and I'm only 18. I'm also in favor of any economic school of thought that favors laissez-faire and free market solutions to pressing economic problems, especially the Austrian and Chicago schools of economics. Limited, sensible amount of regulation to prevent crony capitalism from being inadvertently created, a limit on how much the government can spend GDP wise, and little to no corporate tax is needed in my opinion so companies will have a greater incentive to set up shop in the United States than anywhere else in the world. The Federal Reserve needs to also have a lot more oversight on its actions. We also need to make science and mathematics a much more core part of our education system. It's a shame that countries like Australia and China are outperforming the US in these subjects that are essential to economic growth and production.
I'm learning more and more about economics day by day, though I still have a lot I need to learn. Frankly, I'm just a cartoonist, but I also think it's important for a guy like me to be educated on how economics works and I've done so much of the actual learning of it on my own. I even read Greg Mankiw's Principles of Economics and took tons of notes in only a week thinking I would have been able to take the AP Macroeconomics exam during my senior year of high school.
Are there any specific history books you'd recommend so I could polish up my knowledge, especially when it comes to American politics and the origins of liberalism, conservatism, and libertarianism?
Thanks for the kind words, Roberto. Yeah, it kind of sounds like we're in the same boat; too conservative on the economic side to be a Democrat and too liberal on the social side to be a Republican (I'm probably to the left of both parties when it comes to foreign affairs but that's another story).......As for conservative and libertarian economists, I would probably recommend Amity Shlaes (her book "The Forgotten Man" is destined to be a classic), Thomas E. Woods, Robert Higgs (there's a great 3-part C-Span interview of him on youtube that is devastating), and, of course, Thomas Sowell. Of course, if you want to go back a ways, there is always Murray Rothbard, Milton Friedman (he's actually more of a monetarist who even has some liberal views such as a negative income tax but the dude is brilliant), Frederick Hayek, Ludwig Von Mises, Henry Hazlitt, etc.. Those folks will definitely float your boat, I think. Best of luck and thanks again for the visit.
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