Episode · Dwarkesh Podcast · 2023-01-09
Books mentioned on Lars Doucet — Progress, poverty, Georgism, & why rent is too damn high
One of my best episodes ever. Lars Doucet is the author of Land is a Big Deal, a book about Georgism which has been praised by Vitalik Buterin, Scott Alexander, and Noah Smith.
Lars Doucet discussed Progress and Poverty by Henry George, Henry George's Progress and Poverty by Henry George, and Land Is a Big Deal by Lars A. Doucet and others.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Progress and Poverty
Progress and Poverty by Henry George is an 1879 foundational economic text that explores the paradox of advancing material progress alongside persistent poverty and wealth inequality.
Discussed“and if we can find a way to share the Earth then we can solve the Paradox that is the title of George's book progress and poverty why does poverty Advance even when progress advances”
Where to get it
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Henry George's Progress and Poverty
Henry George's Progress and Poverty by Henry George is an influential 1879 economic text that examines the paradox of advancing poverty alongside material progress and addresses land monopoly.
Discussed“and if we can find a way to share the Earth then we can solve the Paradox that is the title of George's book progress and poverty why does poverty Advance even when progress advances”
Where to get it
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Land Is a Big Deal
Land Is a Big Deal by Lars A.
Discussed“um and one of them has to do with um there's a there's an image in the book that um this guy um put together for me I'll show it to you later um but what it does is that it shows uh the rate of return”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (5) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“and you endorse my book”
“but the reason we're talking is that he wrote a review of Henry George's progress in poverty that won Scott Alexander's book review contest and now it has been turned into and expanded into this book land is a big deal”
“but the reason we're talking is that he wrote a review of Henry George's progress in poverty that won Scott Alexander's book review contest and now it has been turned into and expanded into this book land is a big deal”
“but the reason we're talking is that he wrote a review of Henry George's progress in poverty that won Scott Alexander's book review contest and now it has been turned into and expanded into this book land is a big deal”
“um well it progress in poverty. substock.com is not technically my blog it's a group blog where a lot of us Georgia's post”