Quote from: Dread Pirate Roberts on September 28, 2012, 07:18 pmoops! When I set the min post count, I actually locked out doctafeelgood so he couldn't post the first assignment :P Hopefully he'll be back online again soon.Hungary Ghost, I hope you stick around even if you don't agree with the bias in the material. The more perspectives we have the better :)We could have some Contrarian weeks, where we study the works of Marx, Keynes and Veblen. It shouldn't be just books from the shelves of a literati either, it's good to mix up lighter stuff with smaller amounts of denser material. e.g. I advocate everybody read extracts from the Wealth of Nations, but I wouldn't be advocating people read all the volumes, 20 or 30 pages is far far more material than the majority of writers can cram into an entire bookshelf. Similarly I think Hayak and Friedman are more potent in small doses. A Lodging of Wayfaring Men on the other hand can be read fairly quickly (this book described Bitcoin/SR ages before they even existed, it's eerie to read it now!).One socialist author that should get a look in is George Orwell. 1984 is a truly remarkable book and much fewer people have read it than heard of it.Books! The First Internet :)They seem like opposites to me. With the Internet you have a tremendous range of knowledge, but it is frequently shallow knowledge, not deep like books, but the literati and digitari are both explorers of the mind, so they are complimentary. Many people love books but can hardly find the time to read them all, so book clubs are definitely a good idea on general principals. It is like going to the Book Gym! If you are a Spartan of the body and an Athenian of the mind, you have a lot going for you right there.