Episode · EconTalk · 2020-09-21
Books mentioned on Lisa Cook on Racism, Patents, and Black Entrepreneurship
How much has racism held back the U.S.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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In the First Circle
In the First Circle is a powerful and semi-autobiographical novel by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn that portrays the harsh realities of life and forced labor for intellectuals inside a special Soviet prison scientific research institute.
Discussed“i'm reminded a little bit of uh of our conversation here on um about the book in the first circle by schnitzen which is about the attempt by the soviet regime to have its scientists and mathematicians innovate in the gulag”
Where to get it
