Is there a book I can learn about American economics?

[morganist]

For example I didn't know most of the fracking and oil took place in PA.. I knew Texas is big in Oil... I think the US did some deal with Mexico to make avocado's cheaper? lol

Every state seems to be famous for making something and this information just seems to appear randomly in articles I read. No compilation.

For the information you are asking for city-data.com is your best bet. Plus they have a forum.

 

[harami]

If you want to understand 'American Economics', watch this. It's fiction, but probably more accurate than the official narrative you'll read in a book.

 

[Amun Ra]

The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith

That was a such a hard book to get through, simply because of the dialect of 18th century America and the use of not so common words used today. Had to have my dictionary handy reading that.

I don't mean it was super hard, but I did find I had to re-read some sentences. Here's a random sentence I pulled out of the book.

The lowest price at which coals can be sold for any considerable time is, like that of all other commodities, the price which is barely sufficient to replace, together with its ordinary profits, the stock which must be employed in bringing them to market. At as coal-mine for which the landlord can get no rent, but which he must either work himself or let it alone altogether, the price of coals must generally be nearly about this price.

Not a normal way of reading that we're used to, but it does provide great value into understanding economics.

 

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