Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 2023-08-01
Ezra Klein & Martin Wolf: books mentioned on The Ezra Klein Show
How Martin Wolf Understands This Global Economic Moment
Roger Karma discussed The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism by Martin Wolf. Martin Wolf recommended The Narrow Corridor by Daron Acemoglu and others, Power and Progress by Daron Acemoglu and others, and The Rise and Fall of American Growth by Robert J. Gordon.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
Discussed“currently the chief economics commentator at the financial times as well as the author of numerous books including most recently the excellent book the crisis of democratic capitalism”
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The Narrow Corridor
Recommended“this is achimolu and Robinson um called the narrow Corridor and it's about the fragility of democracy and the finding that sweet spot between Leviathan excessively authoritarian State and Anarchy on the other and that's organized freedom and I think it's an absolutely brilliant discussion of that”
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Power and Progress
Recommended“the second book he co-authored is the most recent with Simon Johnson he's called power and progress and it focuses on something absolutely fundamental which is can we shape technology to our own ends”
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The Rise and Fall of American Growth
Recommended“the last is to me a seminal book which is sort of in a way an anti-atrimony and Robinson it was by Robert Gordon it's called the rise and fall of American growth and it really explores why there was this huge wave of innovation between 1880 and 1940 roughly”
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