Episode · Breaking Points · 2025-05-27
Books mentioned on BAD LEADERSHIP: Pro Trump 'ALL IN' Pod RIPS Beautiful Bill
Krystal Ball discussed Fully Automated Luxury Communism by Aaron Bastani. Emma Vigaland discussed The Deficit Myth by Stephanie Kelton.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Fully Automated Luxury Communism
Fully Automated Luxury Communism by Aaron Bastani is a radical leftist manifesto envisioning a post-scarcity future enabled by automation, renewable energy, and advanced artificial intelligence.
Discussed“And then I'm going to speak with Erin Bastani. He wrote the book Fully Automated Luxury Communism several years back which I read at the time then I just reread and rereading it. It's sort of like a leftist technooptimist view but really is conditioned on you know us having control over the AI and the robots and the technology.”
Where to get it
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The Deficit Myth
The Deficit Myth by Stephanie Kelton is an economics book that presents Modern Monetary Theory and challenges conventional ideas surrounding government debt and federal spending.
Discussed“It's a good point and I I I I agree with you Crystal that I I I I've been citing Stephanie Kelton's work in the past, you know, the deficit myth, which I think is an important book really I important in the Obama era, right, to kind of undercut a lot of the Republican claims there.”
Where to get it
