Episode · The Tim Ferriss Show · 2021-10-21
Books mentioned on #540: Harvard Polymath Noah Feldman — Deep Focus for Hyper-Productivity, Learning 10+ Languages, Predicting the Future with History, the Possibilities (and Limitations) of DAOs, Lessons from the Iraq Invasion, Designing the Supreme Court of Facebook, the Virtue of Scholarship, and the Wild Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Harvard Polymath Noah Feldman — Deep Focus for Hyper-Productivity, Learning 10+ Languages, Predicting the Future with History, the Possibilities (and Limitations) of DAOs, Lessons from the Iraq Invasion, Designing the Supreme Court of Facebook, the Virtue of Scholarship, and the Wild Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Tim Ferriss discussed Misquoting Jesus by Bart D. Ehrman. Noah Feldman recommended Political Order and Political Decay by Francis Fukuyama, The origins of political order by Francis Fukuyama, Democracy and the Market by Adam Przeworski, and The Metaphysical Club by Louis Menand, and discussed The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Misquoting Jesus
Discussed“i although i haven't read the book the premise i believe of this book called misquoting jesus was looking at the linguistic path that various translations and mistranslations have taken”
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Political Order and Political Decay
Political Order and Political Decay by Francis Fukuyama is a comprehensive political science text that examines the historical evolution of political institutions, the origins of the state, and the various factors leading to institutional degradation across different societies.
Recommended“one of his most recent books is this kind of grand grand book political order and political decay”
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The origins of political order
The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution is a sweeping historical and sociological study by Francis Fukuyama that examines how human societies have developed governing institutions, legal frameworks, and the modern state across millennia.
Recommended“one of his most recent books is this kind of grand grand book political order and political decay”
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Democracy and the Market
Democracy and the Market by Adam Przeworski is an influential political science text that explores the complex dynamics between political regimes and economic systems.
Recommended“another book which is a bit shorter and which i have found incredibly helpful uh for me is a book called democracy and the market and it's by a polish born political scientist whose name is adam chavorski”
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The Common Law
Discussed“and he wrote a little book called the common law which was a total re-reading of the history of the law basically the law of accidents and contracts”
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The Metaphysical Club
The Metaphysical Club by Louis Menand is a Pulitzer Prize-winning cultural history that explores the origins of pragmatism through the lives of remarkable figures like Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Recommended“and i read a book that actually i love called the metaphysical club by a person called louis minand who's an amazing amazing writer he's a professor at harvard in the english department book won the pulitzer prize”
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Other mentions in this episode (8) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“and author of ten books including his latest the broken constitution subtitled lincoln slavery and the refounding of america”
“noah's ten books also include divided by god america's church state problem and what we should do about it what we owe iraq war and the ethics of nation building cool war subtitle the united states china and the future of global competition scorpions the battles and triumphs of fdr's great supreme court justices and the three lives of james”
“noah's ten books also include divided by god america's church state problem and what we should do about it what we owe iraq war and the ethics of nation building cool war subtitle the united states china and the future of global competition scorpions the battles and triumphs of fdr's great supreme court justices and the three lives of james”
“noah's ten books also include divided by god america's church state problem and what we should do about it what we owe iraq war and the ethics of nation building cool war subtitle the united states china and the future of global competition scorpions the battles and triumphs of fdr's great supreme court justices and the three lives of james”
“noah's ten books also include divided by god america's church state problem and what we should do about it what we owe iraq war and the ethics of nation building cool war subtitle the united states china and the future of global competition scorpions the battles and triumphs of fdr's great supreme court justices and the three lives of james”
“noah's ten books also include divided by god america's church state problem and what we should do about it what we owe iraq war and the ethics of nation building cool war subtitle the united states china and the future of global competition scorpions the battles and triumphs of fdr's great supreme court justices and the three lives of james”
“noah's ten books also include divided by god america's church state problem and what we should do about it what we owe iraq war and the ethics of nation building cool war subtitle the united states china and the future of global competition scorpions the battles and triumphs of fdr's great supreme court justices and the three lives of james”
“what was the title of that book that was called after jihad america and the struggle for islamic democracy”