Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 2023-02-17
Ezra Klein & Paul Krugman: books mentioned on The Ezra Klein Show
The Inflation Story Has Changed Dramatically. Paul Krugman Breaks It Down.
Ezra Klein discussed The Rise and Decline of Nations by Mancur Olson. Paul Krugman recommended Slouching Towards Utopia by J. Bradford DeLong, How the War Was Won by Phillips P. O'Brien, and Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Rise and Decline of Nations
The Rise and Decline of Nations by Mancur Olson is a famous public interest economics book that explores how institutional bargaining structures and rigidities develop in stable societies over time.
Discussed“it pushed me back to thinking about this book by mansar Olson on the rise and decline of Nations which I don't think is a book that's correct in every respect and I think that it spends way too much time assuming everybody's selfishly trying to get their piece of the pie and you know get money for themselves”
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Slouching Towards Utopia
Slouching Towards Utopia by J.
Recommended“Brad Delong my friend and Economist and historian has this wonderful book called slouching towards Utopia which is a history of what he calls the long 20th century and if you just want to understand how the world changed from he says that 1870 was the pivot point of History you've got to read that book”
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How the War Was Won
How the War Was Won by Phillips P.
Recommended“I have recently reread how the war was won by Phillips O'Brien who's a military historian and it's a book about World War II but he's become a prolific commentator on the war in Ukraine and it's mostly it's this wonderfully unromantic anti-glory view of War it's all about look it's really about modern Wars about production and Logistics”
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Ninth House
Leigh Bardugo's Ninth House is a dark fantasy novel set at Yale University that follows a protagonist tangled up with the campus's occult secret societies.
Recommended“I just read a fantasy novel by Leigh bardugo called ninth house which is set at Yale so I was Yale undergraduate and if you know Yale you know that there are anything about there are these secret societies that people of a certain type get can't apply... Conceited the book is that the secret societies are in fact evil”
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