Episode · People I (Mostly) Admire · 2022-08-06
Books mentioned on What It Takes to Know Everything | People I (Mostly) Admire | Episode 85
Steve Levitt discussed Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty. Victoria Groce discussed De ansatte by Olga Ravn.
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Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Discussed“which French Economist author of Capital in the 21st 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”
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De ansatte
Discussed“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”
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Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing The Employees
“but the two that I had that nobody else in that group had were the Danish author Olga Robin who was a finalist for the international Booker recently with her novel the employees”