Books Mentioned in This Episode

Podcast: Lex Fridman Podcast

Episode: Saifedean Ammous: Bitcoin, Anarchy, and Austrian Economics | Lex Fridman Podcast #284

Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode, complete with an Amazon buy link and quotes from the episode.

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The Bitcoin Standard

by Saifedean Ammous, James Fouhey

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"He's an Austrian economist, an anarchist, and the author of "The Bitcoin Standard" and the new book, "The Fiat Standard.""
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The Fiat Standard

by Saifedean Ammous

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"He's an Austrian economist, an anarchist, and the author of "The Bitcoin Standard" and the new book, "The Fiat Standard.""
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The Fiat Standard

by Saifedean Ammous

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"After what happened in World War I, this changed; I discussed this in detail in The Fiat Standard."
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The Bitcoin Standard

by Saifedean Ammous, James Fouhey

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"People should know that you've written the book "The Bitcoin Standard" from 2018, I believe."
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The Bitcoin Standard

by Saifedean Ammous, James Fouhey

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"In "The Bitcoin Standard," I present the argument that money is always whatever is the hardest thing to make."
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The Bitcoin Standard

by Saifedean Ammous, James Fouhey

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"Over the last 150 years since 1870, I discuss this in detail in "The Bitcoin Standard.""
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Human Action

by Ludwig von Mises, Bettina Bien Greaves

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"In the 1940s, he wrote Human Action, which is a big treatise on economics."
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The Fiat Standard

by Saifedean Ammous

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"But with the fiat system, and this is where I make a breakthrough in my book, fiat replaces gold mining with credit creation."