Episode · The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast · 2021-08-30
Books mentioned on 189. Is Property Theft? | Dr. Robert Murphy
Dr. Robert P.
Jordan Peterson discussed Choice by Robert P. Murphy, Study Guide to Human Action, a Treatise on Economics by Robert P. Murphy and others, Lessons for the Young Economist by Robert P. Murphy, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism by Robert P. Murphy, and Psychological Types by Carl Jung. Robert P. Murphy discussed Human Action by Ludwig von Mises and others and The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Choice
Discussed“He is the author of choice cooperation enterprise and human action which is a modern distillation of ludwig von mises important treatise on the austrian school of economics”
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Study Guide to Human Action, a Treatise on Economics
Discussed“He is the author of choice cooperation enterprise and human action which is a modern distillation of ludwig von mises important treatise on the austrian school of economics”
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Lessons for the Young Economist
Discussed“he's the author of several other economics books for the layperson as well including lessons for the young economist and the politically incorrect guide to capitalism”
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism
Discussed“he's the author of several other economics books for the layperson as well including lessons for the young economist and the politically incorrect guide to capitalism”
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Human Action
Human Action by Ludwig von Mises is a foundational and dense treatise on Austrian economics, methodological individualism, and human decision-making.
Discussed“so ludwig von mises is a giant in the austrian school of economics and um and his magnum opus is called human action”
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The Wealth of Nations
Why people recommend it: Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations is a foundational 1776 text by the Scottish economist often regarded as the father of modern capitalism, examining the nature and causes of national prosperity through free markets and division of labor.
Discussed“um that historically there was the classical economist people like adam smith you know when he wrote the wealth of nations”
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Psychological Types
Psychological Types is a foundational 1921 text by Carl Jung that introduces major concepts in analytical psychology, including introversion, extraversion, and the structure of personality.
Discussed“i read jung's psychological types a long time ago and one of the propositions he put forward was that when slavery was eradicated in in the west we each became our own slaves”
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Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“in beyond order in my second book in particular i stress the role of responsiveness to feedback as a means of opening the individual to the corrective feedback from a distributed computational device”
“as if the reader already knows all these things so what i tried to do with my book choice was to take”