Reddit reviews The Knowledge We Have Lost in Information: The History of Information in Modern Economics

Look you seem to have good intentions but you're completely immersed in the neoclassical economics bullshit.

So, I recommend taking at this particular book:


The Dismal Science: How Thinking Like an Economist Undermines Community by Harvard Economics Professor Stephen A. Marglin, who is also a reformed/ former neoclassical economist.


Philip Mirowski's book Machine Dreams: Economics Becomes a Cyborg Science, his book More Heat than Light: Economics as Social Physics, Physics as Nature's Economics and his latest The Knowledge We Have Lost in Information: The History of Information in Modern Economics deal with a lot of the bullshit coming from economics.


You can find a more anti-capitalist critique in [The Beginning of History: Value Struggles and Global Capital](http://www.lamarre-mediaken.com/Site/COMS_630_files/Beginning%20of%20History.pdf
) (I included a PDF to it).


As for books on what communism might look like:

• Omnia Sunt Communia: On the Commons and the Transformation to Postcapitalism by Massimo De Angelis.
  
  
  
• Living at the Edges of Capitalism: Adventures in Exile and Mutual Aid by Andrej Grubacic and Denis O'Hearn:
  
  https://www.amazon.com/Living-Edges-Capitalism-Adventures-Mutual/dp/0520287304
  
  
• “The World of the Gift” by Alain Caillé and Jacques T. Godbout:
  
  
  
  
  https://www.amazon.com/World-Gift-Jacques-T-Godbout/dp/0773517510
  
  
  
• “Anthropology and the Economy of Sharing” by Thomas Widlok:
  
  
  
  https://www.amazon.com/Anthropology-Economy-Sharing-Thomas-Widlok/dp/1138945552
  
  
  
  
  The economic mechanism that Thomas Widlok talks about in his book is very to what Peter Kropotkin calls "mutual aid" and David Graeber calls "everyday communism".
  
  
  
  

If you're a real computer scientist then you'll enjoy reading the following:

• Machine Dreams: Economics Becomes a Cyborg Science.
  
  
  
• The Knowledge We Have Lost in Information: The History of Information in Modern Economics.
  
  
• Markets come to bits: Evolution, computation and markomata in economic science.
  
  
  
• The Cultural Logic of Computation by David Golumbia.