Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 2024-10-04
Books mentioned on The Economy Is at a Hinge Moment
Jason Ferman recommended How the World Became Rich by Mark Koyama and others and The Goodness Paradox by Richard Wrangham. Also mentioned: Emil Zola by Dušan Z. Milačić and others.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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How the World Became Rich
How the World Became Rich by Mark Koyama and Jared Rubin is a historical and economic examination of the factors that led to Western economic dominance and modern prosperity.
Recommended“my first book is how the world became Rich by Mark coyama and Jared Rubin it's just an amazing synthesis of the amazing research in the last 20 years that looks in a deep way at the role that institutions culture geography and other factors have played in just the enormous transformation of um humankind”
Where to get it
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The Goodness Paradox
The Goodness Paradox by Richard Wrangham is an evolutionary biology book that investigates the complex relationship between human kindness and meticulously planned violence.
Recommended“second one is outside of my discipline and it's the goodness Paradox by Richard rangam that gets at the question of why humans can be so good to each other but also can be so bad and when we're bad we plan it meticulously and execute it over a long period of time um rather than just do it spontaneously”
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Emil Zola
Emil Zola is a novel by Dušan Z.
Recommended“um the final book is a novel by Emil Zola called the Ladies paradise”
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