📚 2 Books mentioned in "What It Takes to Know Everything | People I (Mostly) Admire | Episode 85" of People I (Mostly) Admire

Oh okay, there was a group of people, mostly people who finished in the top 10 to 20, who did a little crowdsourced spreadsheet to see who got which of all the questions on the test, and for that sample I think a majority of the questions had 10 or 11 of us getting it correct, but the two that I had that nobody else in that group had were the Danish author Olga Ravn, who was a finalist for the International Booker recently with her novel 'The Employees,' and you knew that from your flashcards?

The mention highlights the Danish author Olga Ravn and her novel 'The Employees,' which she was recognized for by being a finalist for the International Booker Prize.

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Here's another question that was absolutely easy for me, but that I'm guessing might have been hard for you: which French economist, author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century, claims that increasing wealth inequality is a feature of capitalism and suggests steeply progressive capital taxes and a cap on the possible total wealth of a person in order to get the capital distribution back to a normal level?

During a quiz segment, the host asks Victoria Gross an intriguing question about the ideas presented by French economist Thomas Piketty in his book, 'Capital in the Twenty-First Century.' The question highlights Piketty's views on wealth inequality and his proposal for progressive capital taxes.

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