Fuck social science syllabi. I hate the books the university has prescribed for Economics undergraduate. All the books are dumbed down for laypeople, avoid math, and have all sorts of colours and graphics meant to attract zoomers with zero attention span. Half the time I have to go look up the original source of all the topics on Jstor, to find the actual theories. This is where I envy Physics and Math books: it's b&w; precise and straight to the point, no beating around bush, and constantly repeating themselves for zoomers; everything is rigorously defined; etc. All these books are less scientific and more like those I fucking love basedience Kurzgesagt channels.

So far I have found Mas Colell and Foundation of Economic analysis for Micro; Gandolfo(s) for pure theory of trade, and dynamics; for Macro, while Mankiw is exactly the sort of book I am complaining about---paradoxically, I like the book, mostly because Macro does require a lot of dumbing down for undergrads---the math is easy to look up elsewhere.

My main problem is when they suddenly introduced topics relying on finance and accounting mid syllabus, expecting us to somehow already be familiar with accounting and finance. I am looking for good books on all the nominal, financial parts of economics, including accounting, which provides clear definitions, as well as motivation if not history behind all the institutions. I really don't find any motivation behind all the complicated structures. I have found Gandolfo's book on international finance highly mathematical and precise, but it seems to be very intermediate, made for someone who already knows a bit of finance and accounting.