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It was a former Harverd student told me that the best way to tell the difrence, is that if you can understand it, it's ligit, if its compleicated, it's supply side. If it's simple, than its supply side propaganda.
The problem is, how do you know what is true, and what isn't, when you are just starting to learn about the basics. There is only one way, question it. But that requires an invironment of debate. Eather with other students or instructors. And that was this student's frustration. Haverd was not a true university in his thinking. It was a sit down, sut up, and obsorbe what the teacher tells you. (He ended up dropping out of Harverd, and was looking for another "non-ive" university to study under. He wanted to be a historical economist.)
To learn economics, you have to learn the real thing. Not waste your time with pretenders.
And as for "learning the supply side propaganda," that is a fools errand. It changes constantly, from year to year, even week to week. Some times evavalving from older works, other times being constructed from whole cloth, then being deseminated through the think tanks and TV pundrity, as if it was ligit. Most of it desimenates from Congress ironicly.
I am not saying to get questonble books at all. Just that you need to be suspicus and questoning of every thing you read. The real thing will imbrace the scruity.
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