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Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 2025-12-23

Books mentioned on ‘This is Something that Traditional Economics Isn’t Prepared to Deal With’ | The Ezra Klein Show

6 books · With Tracy Aloway, Joe Weisenthal · Watch on YouTube

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

  1. Breakneck

    Dan Wang · at 1:15:21

    Breakneck by Dan Wang is a non-fiction book that explores the political economy and industrial landscape of China in comparison to the United States.

    Recommended
    “Dan Wong's new book breakneck break neck is excellent for comparing the political economy of the US and China and a lot of the things we just discussed”
    Tracy Aloway ‘This is Something that Traditional Economics Isn’t Prepared to Deal W… 2025-12-23 Listen at 1:15:21
    Where to get it
    Amazon Audible Bookshop.org Open Library

  2. Northwoods

    Amy Pease · at 1:15:40

    Northwoods by Amy Pease is a contemporary fiction novel that centers on an old, mysterious house in New England and weaves a surreal narrative around its inhabitants and history.

    Recommended
    “best fiction I read this year new fiction is Northwoods which is the sort of surreal story about an old house in New England”
    Tracy Aloway ‘This is Something that Traditional Economics Isn’t Prepared to Deal W… 2025-12-23 Listen at 1:15:40
    Where to get it
    Amazon Audible Bookshop.org Open Library

  3. Marriage at Sea

    William Clark Russell · at 1:16:00

    Marriage at Sea is a historical fiction and maritime adventure novel by William Clark Russell that depicts nautical perils and dramatic escapes.

    Recommended
    “Marriage at Sea, which is a true story of a couple in the 1970s that get shipwrecked by a something whaling related. Whale. Oh, that's great. And survive at sea.”
    Tracy Aloway ‘This is Something that Traditional Economics Isn’t Prepared to Deal W… 2025-12-23 Listen at 1:16:00
    Where to get it
    Amazon Audible Bookshop.org Open Library

  4. MOBY-DICK; or, THE WHALE

    Herman Melville · at 1:16:17

    Moby-Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville is an epic American masterpiece detailing Captain Ahab's obsessive, destructive quest for vengeance against the giant white whale that maimed him, interwoven with exhaustive details of nineteenth-century whaling.

    Recommended
    “I read Moby Dick this year and it changed my life and I've read a bunch of sort of whaling related books... Just read Moby Dick people if you haven't.”
    Joe Weisenthal ‘This is Something that Traditional Economics Isn’t Prepared to Deal W… 2025-12-23 Listen at 1:16:17
    Where to get it
    Amazon Audible Bookshop.org Open Library

  5. Orality and Literacy

    Walter J. Ong · at 1:17:26 · mentioned 2 times

    Orality and Literacy by Walter J.

    Recommended
    “Walter's orality and literacy which I've been talking about a lot which is basically the way like our communication environment is such that we're like an oral society increasingly”
    Joe Weisenthal ‘This is Something that Traditional Economics Isn’t Prepared to Deal W… 2025-12-23 Listen at 1:17:26
    Where to get it
    Amazon Audible Bookshop.org Open Library

  6. No sense of place

    Joshua Meyrowitz · at 1:18:09

    No Sense of Place is a media theory book by Joshua Meyrowitz that explores how electronic media, particularly television, alters social behavior by dissolving traditional physical boundaries and redefining public and private spheres.

    Recommended
    “So yeah, no sense of place by Josh Myroitz is my last one.”
    Joe Weisenthal ‘This is Something that Traditional Economics Isn’t Prepared to Deal W… 2025-12-23 Listen at 1:18:09
    Where to get it
    Amazon Audible Bookshop.org Open Library