Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2024-08-03
Books mentioned on It Could Happen Here Weekly 141
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James Stout recommended The Games by David Goldblatt and Capital as Power by Jonathan Nitzan and others, and discussed Homo Ludens by Johan Huizinga, Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities by Piero Sraffa, and A Growth-Inducement Strategy for Jamaica in the Short and Medium Term by Donald J. Harris and others. Mia Wong discussed Capital accumulation and income distribution by Donald J. Harris and others.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Homo Ludens
Homo Ludens by Johan Huizinga is a classic historical and philosophical text written in the 1930s by the Dutch historian exploring the vital role of play in human culture and civilization.
Discussed“if we're looking at like kind of the classic text on this, it's it's a book called Homoludins. Uh but we probably probably don't need to read that. It's not not a banger.”
Where to get it
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The Games
The Games: A Global History of the Olympics by David Goldblatt is a comprehensive historical account examining the political, social, and economic forces that have shaped the modern Olympic Games.
Recommended“It's from my friend David Goldblat who's written a really excellent history of the Olympics was called the games. And if you're going to read one book about the Olympics, it should be David's book.”
Where to get it
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Capital accumulation and income distribution
Discussed“the thing about this book so this book is from 19 19 1978 which is actually after he had broken up with Camala's mom and so Camala doesn't like know him super well.”
Where to get it
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Capital as Power
Capital as Power by Jonathan Nitzan and Shimshon Bichler is an influential heterodox economic text that reimagines capitalism as a system driven by power rather than purely material production.
Recommended“if you're really curious about this, the book Capital is Power, Capital as Power has uh a really great explanation of it in chapter 5 that's pretty short. uh you can just literally find a PDF of capitalist power by just googling it.”
Where to get it
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Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities
Discussed“here is how the start of his most influential book production of commodities on means of commodities starts let us consider an extremely simple society which produces just enough to maintain itself commodities are produced by separate industries and are exchanged for one another etc. culture.”
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A Growth-Inducement Strategy for Jamaica in the Short and Medium Term
Discussed“I'm going I'm going to read So, so he wrote a book called a grow This is in 2011, a growth inducement strategy for Jamaica in the short and medium term. I'm going to read you the the bullet points under a section called Guiding Principles.”
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