Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 2023-04-21
Ezra Klein & Matthew Desmond: books mentioned on The Ezra Klein Show
Matthew Desmond On America’s Addiction to Poverty
Ezra Klein recommended Homelessness Is a Housing Problem by Gregg Colburn and others, and discussed Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond and Evicted by Matthew Desmond. Matthew Desmond recommended Scarcity by Sendhil Mullainathan and others, What then must we do? by Лев Толстой, Race for Profit by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and others, and Random Family by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Poverty, by America
Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond is a rigorous, eye-opening non-fiction investigation that examines why the United States maintains such high levels of systemic poverty despite being one of the wealthiest nations in history.
Discussed“Matthew Desmond writes that in his new book about poverty poverty by America but poverty by America is supposed to be something a bit different”
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Evicted
Evicted by Matthew Desmond is a rigorous sociological study that follows low-income families and their landlords in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, shedding light on the devastating systemic cycle of poverty and housing instability in American cities.
Discussed“he's the author of The Pulitzer prize-winning evicted and evicted which was a book about housing markets particularly for the poor”
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Homelessness Is a Housing Problem
Homelessness Is a Housing Problem is a researched nonfiction book by Gregg Colburn and Clayton Page Aldern that investigates the root causes of homelessness in urban areas.
Recommended“so this is a great book homelessness is a housing problem”
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Scarcity
Scarcity by Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir is a psychological exploration of how having too little of things like money or time shapes human thinking, decision-making, and behavior.
Recommended“the bandwidth tax is an idea that comes from a book called scarcity which is by cindel melanathon and Eldar shafir It's a Wonderful book highly recommend it”
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What then must we do?
What Then Must We Do? is a deeply moral and philosophical nonfiction work by Leo Tolstoy that examines poverty, economics, and human responsibility.
Recommended“I recommend what then must we do by Leo Tolstoy”
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Race for Profit
Race for Profit by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and narrated by Janina Edwards is a prominent scholarly work examining the ways housing policies and urban development have perpetuated racial inequalities.
Recommended“I really loved race for profit by kianga Yamada Taylor”
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Random Family
Random Family by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc is a landmark work of investigative journalism that chronicles the lives of several individuals and families navigating poverty, the drug trade, and the criminal justice system in the Bronx over the course of a decade.
Recommended“and my third book is is random family the classic investigative journalism by Adrian Nicola Blanc”
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