Getting up to watch BPL, I viewed three matches and also switched to catch Bundesliga from time to time. Turning TV onto Norwich hosting Liverpool too late, I missed 6 goals both sides had made. It's a high score match anyway, eventually, Liverpool's Lallana made the winning goal within the last minute. Liverpool came back after having been behind by two goals. Norwich's defender made a very unfortunate mistake to pass back to their keeper but the ball was caught by Liverpool's player who scored an easy goal to lead by 4 to 3.
Manchester United lost at home to Southampton in the last several minutes. The sub made a free header from a free kick without being marked by anyone. The discussion of the departure of manager was raised again.
It sounded like Yaya Toure had become a liability of the team, though he was designated as captain. Looking at his size, I could tell he might be less athletic recently. The first losing goal was part of his fault of slow action. The match ended up with a draw at 2:2, wasn't too bad.
While watching the 2nd BPL televised match on NBCSN, I also switched to Fox Sport 1 to glance at a Bundesliga match Hoffenheim playing Leverkusen. This was the first week of the matches being resumed at Bundesliga after holiday break.
After lunch, I came out to start my van, it worked very well again after being parked outside for 18 hours. Stopping at Safeway, I refilled my parents' medication. It's a bit quiet today, so only Eric and Tina were working at the Pharmacy. Driving to gym afterwards, I worked out for an hour before going home. It's raining and the day would become dark pretty soon.
Taking dinner, I suddenly felt pretty dry in my throat, so realized that I might catch cold. Covered by comforter in the bed in study room, I slept for several hours before getting up to write review for Chapter 4 - Models and Theories of Economics Rules while drinking a big can of beer I bought at Safeway earlier. It's a new brand to me and taste was a bit different possibly driven by special flavors. My dad came in to chat with for several minutes. I walked him through the history of economics theories he was interested in briefly. I told him after reading this book, I would take a break to read two novels, then read Ben Bernanke's The Courage to Act thoroughly with an in-depth review.
After finishing Bernanke's, I would buy four books online because three of them were old of which I might not be able to find on book shelves at bookstore. I read Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations when I was in 20s, but this time I would do it word by word.
I read Marx's Das Kapital in Chinese fragmentally, this time I would understand each sentence in English.
I never read Keynes' The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money but learned his theories through textbooks several times. This would be an opportunity to catch his views completely.
Way overdue reading on Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century would be caught up finally. I would compare its contents with Marx's theories in Das Kapital. It would be even better if I could read in French, German respectively.
My dad is writing a book about culture, he also wanted to incorporate some of the economics theories into it. My understanding of the development of economics theories is that Classical Theories and Keynesianism have been switching the leaderships from time to time. Both of them are trying to save Capitalism. As I shared, my view is Modern Socialism will come into the play, which requires human beings not setting up a goal of making the maximum benefits for themselves. Human Beings are selfish or even greedy by natures but they can be influenced to be more self-disciplined. The system of Modern Socialism can make this happen and resolve all the issues such as inequalities.
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