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Saturday, August 13, 2005
Over at Cafe Hayek very well read Don Boudreaux produces a list of the 10 books he should have read but never did. They are:

10. Erasmus's In Praise of Folly

9. Boswell's Life of Johnson

8. Alfred Marshall's Principles of Economics

7. Cervantes's Don Quixote

6. Eli Heckscher's Mercantilism

5. Aristotle's The Nicomachean Ethics

4. The Odyssey

3. The Iliad

2. The King James version of The Bible (cover to cover; I've read large chunks of it)

1. Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire


I would now like to present the top 10 books that 97.84% of humanity* should have read but never did. They are:

10. Erasmus's In Praise of Folly

9. Boswell's Life of Johnson

8. Alfred Marshall's Principles of Economics

7. Cervantes's Don Quixote

6. Eli Heckscher's Mercantilism

5. Aristotle's The Nicomachean Ethics

4. The Odyssey

3. The Iliad

2. The King James version of The Bible (cover to cover; I've read large chunks of it)

1. Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire



Wow Boudreaux, how far behind the power curve are you?

*by humanity I mean non-comparitive lit. majors. Those dudes are assholes.

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