Reddit reviews Principles of Macroeconomics, 6th Edition
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Used Book in Good Condition
If you have the motivation and discipline to stick with it, working through a good Principles (introductory) textbook would probably be your best option. You can get used old editions off Amazon for about $10. I use Mankiw when I teach, but Krugman and other options are good too.
There are some decent free online courses out there:
If you want a mass-market book, start with The Undercover Economist Strikes Back: How to Run--or Ruin--an Economy. Even if you go the textbook option, it's probably worth supplementing with this one.
It seems like you are talking about two different things here: "everyone receiving cash at birth" is different from "tying monetary growth to the birth rate."
I suggest grabbing an intro to econ text from your library (I suggest Mankiw's Principles) and going through the section on money. It should answer your questions, or at least make them more precise.
Here is the source for my claim that things do work in the same way for gas and pizza.
http://www.amazon.com/Principles-Macroeconomics-N-Gregory-Mankiw/dp/0538453060/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1369697144&sr=8-1&keywords=principles+of+macroeconomics
read the chapter about supply and demand
https://www.amazon.com/Principles-Macroeconomics-6th-Mankiws-Economics/dp/0538453060/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1522307220&sr=8-7&keywords=introduction+to+macroeconomics
I'm not a huge fan but this one is a pretty standard intro book.
https://www.amazon.com/Principles-Macroeconomics-6th-Mankiws-Economics/dp/0538453060
> This is classic supply side economics
No its not.
> The largest driver of the deficit since 2008 was not the mortgage crisis, it was the Bush Tax cuts
o_O CBO estimates the combined loss in revenue of EGTRRA & JGTRRA at $1.1t. At peak (2007) lost revenue was $120b. Do you math?
> Tax cuts -- particularly tax cuts for the wealthy -- are a horrible way to attempt to stimulate the economy.
Read this and this. Then go read about this which is what causes this effect to occur which in turn means models like this emerge. I never stated anything about tax cuts for the wealthy, nice strawman, but positing that tax cuts don't have a positive effect on growth is simply empirically nonsense (Note how I am citing real sources?).
Your reference to "supply side economics" to refer to something you clearly don't understand when I was referring to something which is part of mainstream economics rather then heterodox nonsense like supply-side BS leads me to believe you don't have a particularly good grasp of economics.
> My turn to say "irrelevant." I don't even know that it is true, but it's pretty much beside the point.
The purpose of taxation is to raise revenue to support spending not to simply raise revenue for no purpose. With a balanced budget over the business cycle effective tax rates can fall long term while supporting precisely the same level of spending. That is called growth.
Rather then understanding economics from places like /r/politics, HuffPost and Alternet pick up a textbook. This and this are both extremely good.
Might I suggest reading Mankiew’s Principles of Economics? You might learn why fiat currency and central banking are so widely supported by economists. You then might be able to more clearly see the flaws that crypto has as a currency.
https://www.amazon.com/Principles-Macroeconomics-6th-Gregory-Mankiw/dp/0538453060/ref=nodl_
i might suggest a basic macro-economics text.
https://www.amazon.ca/Principles-Macroeconomics-N-Gregory-Mankiw/dp/0538453060
is popular.