📚 3 Books mentioned in "146. Is There a Fair Way to Divide Us? | People I (Mostly) Admire" of People I (Mostly) Admire

So you're a theoretical mathematician who, because of your applied work, has gotten to see the real world in action, and at least for me, when I wrote Freakonomics and got a taste of the real world, I was really poisoned to academics after that because I found the real world to be much more fun.

In this segment, host Steve Levitt shares his insights from writing 'Freakonomics' and contrasts his academic experience with the more engaging and enjoyable lessons learned from real-world applications.

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One of the attorneys in the case actually used the analogy: a drunken monkey can eventually type Hamlet, there's this kind of old saw about how randomly typing you'll eventually type Hamlet, but why should we outsource our redistricting to a drunken monkey?

In this segment, the book 'Hamlet' is referenced in a metaphor by an attorney, suggesting that a random process could eventually yield a masterpiece like Shakespeare's 'Hamlet'. The point being made is that relying on a haphazard method to determine fair districting is not advisable, particularly in the context of a Pennsylvania court case concerning redistricting.

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Go back to the Federalist Papers, and you'll see the argument that these constituencies around the country are going to have so-called competing local jealousies.

The host, Steve Levitt, refers to the Federalist Papers to highlight the argument made by the authors that constituencies around the country would have conflicting local interests.

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