/lit/ - Literature

>>15459079
>>15459087
How is this still up?

>>13611198
>it's not unreasonable to expect people to have read something about the topics they choose to talk about on a literature board.
Tbh. But economics, similar to philosophy has such a wide range of literature surrounding it that it's almost impossible to be completely filled in. I say this as someone studying for a masters in finance so I've done my reading around the subject.

I do see far too many people though who have only read Marx and/or Adam Smith and think 'job done, I'm an economist now'. The Dunning-Kruger effect is at its worst in discussion of economics on the internet.

Oh I love Timothy Ferriss.

He is a prime example of how you can repackage the same thing again and again with multiple layers of marketing techniques and people will gobble it up.

Are there any good analysis on the self-help industry? I have read tons of self-help and they all seem to use the same talking points, cite the same studies and use the same jargon, and yet they become more and more lucrative. Self-help seems to be the ultimate case study for how marketing is more important than any single content.