Bastiat is a classic, it's a very good and simple introduction into study of real economics. A lot of people repeat his ideas now without even knowing they're his. More of him is on Mises if you want to skip YouTube altogether, mentioned here: #339161 If you share it here, more useful to also say what you think -- or drop a couple quotes -- so people can tell if they actually want to read it.
“In the economic sphere an act, a habit, an institution, a law produces not only one effect, but a series of effects. Of these effects, the first alone is immediate; it appears simultaneously with its cause; it is seen. The other effects emerge only subsequently; they are not seen; we are fortunate if we foresee them. There is only one difference between a bad economist and a good one: the bad economist confines himself to the visible effect; the good economist takes into account both the effect that can be seen and those effects that must be foreseen.”
Bastiat is a classic, it's a very good and simple introduction into study of real economics. A lot of people repeat his ideas now without even knowing they're his. More of him is on Mises if you want to skip YouTube altogether, mentioned here: #339161
If you share it here, more useful to also say what you think -- or drop a couple quotes -- so people can tell if they actually want to read it.