📚 6 Books mentioned in "Is Trump ‘Detoxing’ the Economy or Poisoning It? | The Ezra Klein Show" of The Ezra Klein Show
Podcast: The Ezra Klein Show
Episode: Is Trump ‘Detoxing’ the Economy or Poisoning It? | The Ezra Klein Show
Published on March 14, 2025
Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode. Click on the links to watch specific excerpts on YouTube and feel free to purchase the books if they caught your interest!
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A Dictionary of Chinese-Japanese Words in the Japanese Language
I would recommend John Min Kan The Economic Consequences of the piece um which just read the first third the last two thirds not worth reading
The guest recommends this book, specifying which parts to read.
Debt
Buy Debt by David Graeber on Amazon
and I'd recommend another book which is David graber's debt the first 5,000 years which looks at what you do with debt system systems from a very long-term perspective and makes a point about the fact that debt is always about power
The guest recommends this book for its long-term perspective on debt and power.
General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money
Buy General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money by John Maynard Keynes on Amazon
and as someone who also spend a lot of time thinking about economic history and is head of King's College in Cambridge which was where John Min kanes was based I'm also haunted by the fact that in 1919 after World War One John man KES wrote a haunting pamphlet called The Economic Consequences of the Peace in which he pointed out that globalization preor War I had been very good for people so had had free markets and the free movement of people and Innovation and that had delivered a huge economic boom that was obviously disrupted after World War I
The guest mentions John Maynard Keynes wrote this pamphlet after WWI and its relevance to current protectionist policies.
How to Think Like an Anthropologist
Buy How to Think Like an Anthropologist by Matthew Engelke on Amazon
if you want to get a very quick take on what anthropology is there's a book by Matthew Angel called think like an anthropologist that summarizes some of the key ideas in anthropology
The guest recommends this book as a quick introduction to anthropology, mentioning a relevant section on power structures.
National Power and the Structure of Foreign Trade
Buy National Power and the Structure of Foreign Trade by Albert Hirschman on Amazon
um so the first one I'd recommend is Albert hershman's National Power and the structure of foreign trade um from 1945 which is something that's gone completely out of fashion in recent years but shed a lot of light on where we are today
The guest recommends this book as one outside the mainstream that sheds light on the current situation.
National Power and the Structure of Foreign Trade, by Albert O. Hirschman
um so the first one I'd recommend is Albert hershman's National Power and the structure of foreign trade um from 1945 which is something that's gone completely out of fashion in recent years but shed a lot of light on where we are today
The guest recommends this book as one outside the mainstream that sheds light on the current situation.