Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 2023-02-17
Books mentioned on A Guide to the ‘Legal Fictions’ That Create Wealth, Inequality and Economic Crises
Ezra Klein discussed The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson. Katarina Pistor recommended Crashed by J. Adam Tooze and Ages of American Capitalism by Jonathan Levy. Also mentioned: Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty and The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson and others.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty examines wealth concentration and economic inequality in capitalist economies.
Discussed“Thomas piketti in his most recent book makes a very convincing argument that the so-called you know great compression of wealth in Western democracies during the 20th century was a product of the rise of progressive taxation and the welfare state”
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The Years of Rice and Salt
The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson is an imaginative alternative history novel that explores a world where the Black Death wiped out most of Europe.
Discussed“and the idea that kept coming to my head about this was from Kim Stanley Robinson's book the ministry for the future which takes place sort of in the near future as societies come to grips with climate change”
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The Ministry for the Future
The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson is a gripping speculative science fiction novel that chronicles a near-future world grappling with the escalating and devastating consequences of climate change through the efforts of a newly established UN subsidiary.
Discussed“and the idea that kept coming to my head about this was from Kim Stanley Robinson's book the ministry for the future which takes place sort of in the near future as societies come to grips with climate change”
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Crashed
Crashed by J.
Recommended“uh many of the data that he provided there were for me ammunition to think about the legal structures that might hack actually can help explain the data underneath it so that would be one I would also in terms especially the financial crisis that we talked about a lot I would name Adam tusser's crashed which I think is”
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Ages of American Capitalism
Ages of American Capitalism is a comprehensive historical overview by Jonathan Levy that traces the evolution of economic structures and wealth creation in the United States.
Recommended“and then a book that came out after I wrote my book but one um an odd by an author who I quote in the book at the very beginning when I Define capitalist as Jonathan Levy and he published a book I think it was was my last year ages of American capitalism where he goes through this history”
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