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So, You Wish to Learn All About Economics?: A Text on Elementary Mathematical Economics

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What Lyndon LaRouche outlines in this book is nothing short a extraordinary. By combining the work of Bernhard Riemann with the the American system of Economics (as well as a graet deal original to himself) he sets the difinitive standard for all economic thinking. By eliminating all axioms and thoroughly investigating all necessary factors he brings the would-be student in a position where he/she can see the fundamental dynamic of the economy of a society from the inside.
Amazing and the only thing for all economists who would rather have a scientificly based economy rather than the usual ideologically based trash out there.

[furthermore a must-read for all arabs who are fed up with the prevailing colonial system]- ibn Nafa'a

What is distinctive about LaRouche's approach to the economy is that he does not focus on mere increases or decreases in share-prices in the stock market or prices in real estate, neither of which necessarily reflects the actual state of the economy.

Nor does he focus simply on production, which can be ratched up and quickly exhausted if a society does not investment in replenishing and upgrading its productive capacity.

Rather, what LaRouche looks at is the relative increase or decrease in the production of the capacity of a society to produce, and this over the long-term of 25-year intervals.

He goes behind all of the smoke and mirrors and tinsel that capture the imaginations of most economists, and gets down to fundamental issues.

Relative economic strength or weakness must always be situated within a systemic framework. You have to examine the long-term health of that system; that, and the prevailing axiomatic-like assumptions about the economy, which will determine whether or not productive capacity will be built for future.

It is a book well worth reading, and is easily worth ten times the price on the cover.

This book represents a more accessible writing style about economics, and clear guidance concerning human life. But also, notice how the author mentions the largely forgotten economists, Ferrier, Chaptal, & Dupin-- the 'Cameralists'.

LaRouche proceeds to jump around from multiply connected Reimannian manifolds, to neoKantian romanticism, to shakespeare, to Plato, to Moses Mendelssohn...While obviously a well read, if not necessarily insightful fellow, L.L. chooses to change his topic and approach constantly in lieu of adding any weight or coherence to his arguments. While some of ideas are supported by vague notions, brash but ultimately ineffectual intellectual showmanship, and above all circumstatial evidence, they do make one very strong case based on all this innuendo: that LaRouche is a paranoid demagogue who will say anything to convince his reader of his intellectual superiority, simply in order to prevent the reader from question his always outrageous claims. Add equal parts genuis, plagiarized from throughout intellectual history, sprinkle on a few graphs without inflation adjusted dollars, and viola! There you have it.