My little cousin is a pretty good kid who really loves history and is broadly familiar with US imperialism. He starts university this fall and is majoring in Mathematics and Economics -which is a cesspool of capitalist indoctrination. Are there any books that you'd recommend to send him that would push him to think more critically of the neoliberal indoctrination that he is likely to receive? I could obviously just give him Marx or Lenin but I was looking for something a little more subtle.
Point out to him that while modern economics tries to position itself as a hard mathematical/statistical field of study, they conveniently ignore Marxist theory at every turn. His indoctrination is likely to not even come from a class on Marxist theory that "debunks" it; there won't even be such a class! But rather, they'll simply never academically discuss it at all besides "capitalism is freedom. Communism is state oppression".
Mathematics would never do that. If something is flawed, then people try to logically reason and show why. Instead, his economics classes will all start from the premise that capitalism is the best system as if it's an axiom.