Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2023-08-05
Books mentioned on It Could Happen Here Weekly 94
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Mia Wong discussed The Magical State by Fernando Coronil and The Prize by Daniel Yergin.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Magical State
The Magical State by Fernando Coronil is a celebrated anthropological study examining how oil wealth shaped the political culture, state formation, and national identity of Venezuela.
Discussed“most of the people who say the words the magical state which is the name of his sort of famous book uh actually have read it. But I I I did read this book. I've read this book multiple times.”
Where to get it
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The Prize
The Prize by Daniel Yergin is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historical account exploring the central role that energy, particularly oil, has played in global power, geopolitics, and international conflict for over a century.
Discussed“the the sort of most famous book in this genre is Daniel Jurgens's The Prize, which is which is a fine book, but it it shares in this sort of tendency to, you know, kind of, you know”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“I read David Greyber's uh uh towards anthropological theory of value I might do an episode on it at some point later but all of that stuff is gone”