Episode · People I (Mostly) Admire · 2023-01-04
Books mentioned on Jared Diamond on the Downfall of Civilizations — and His Optimism for Ours | Episode 55
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Collapse
Collapse is a popular science book by Jared M.
Discussed“I think I've read all your books, and my single favorite passage is when you write about the Norse Greenland settlement, and I found that part of your book in "Collapse" so remarkable because the mistakes that the settlers in North Greenland made were so preposterous, but somehow they were incredibly familiar as well.”
Where to get it
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Freakonomics
Freakonomics by Steven D.
Discussed“After "Freakonomics" came out and we had some success in terms of publishing, there was a historian that I knew, and I was at a seminar he was at, and clearly within my earshot, he grumbled that he would never want a wide audience to read his scholarship, with clearly a reference to the fact that I had somehow degraded”
Where to get it
