📚 3 Books mentioned in "The Price of Doing Business With John List | People I (Mostly) Admire | Episode 94" of People I (Mostly) Admire
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Episode: The Price of Doing Business With John List | People I (Mostly) Admire | Episode 94
Published on January 18, 2023
Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode. Click on the links to watch specific excerpts on YouTube and feel free to purchase the books if they caught your interest!
Economics, an introductory analysis
The first book I used was in 1985. It was by Samuelson and Nordhaus.
In this segment, John List references a book he utilized back in 1985 authored by Paul Samuelson and William Nordhaus, which he cites to illustrate the lack of experimentation among economists.
Essays in positive economics
Buy Essays in positive economics by Milton Friedman on Amazon
When you look at Friedman's work on say the 53 positive economics book, he says economists must rely on evidence gleaned from the experiments that happen to occur.
In the podcast, Steve Levitt refers to Milton Friedman's book 'Essays in Positive Economics' to make a point about the reliance on evidence from experiments in the field of economics.
The economics of discrimination
Buy The economics of discrimination by Gary Stanley Becker on Amazon
On the one hand is what Gary Becker wrote about in his dissertation in 1957, which is people just get satisfaction out of hurting another person in a different group—that's one kind of theory.
In this segment, John List discusses Gary Becker's dissertation from 1957, highlighting one of the economic models that explains discrimination based on an individual's satisfaction derived from harming others in different groups.