📚 5 Books mentioned in "Why the Left Had to Steal the Right's Dark-Money Playbook | Freakonomics Radio | Bonus Episode" of Freakonomics Radio

yes I was very surprised to find out that Mark Zuckerberg put gang leader for a day the book that I wrote on his monthly reading list in 2015.

Sudhir Venkatesh mentions his book being on Mark Zuckerberg's reading list.

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and the thought that comes to my mind is motivated by an essay of a sociologist named Robert Putnam that was written probably 20 some years ago entitled bowling alone and the thesis is relatively simple and that at that time Putnam was arguing that we don't have a healthy Civic life because we don't have what he called the healthy associational life

The host references Robert Putnam's work "bowling alone" and discusses its thesis about civic life.

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so again taking a page out of a conservatives Playbook I read Jane Mayer's book dark money on the Koch brothers who have invested heavily for years in building for-profit companies and non-profit organizations and infrastructure on the right

Tara McGowan mentions reading this book by Jane Mayer as inspiration for her organization's structure.

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a person you may recognize if you've read his amazing book gang leader for a day or the chapter in Freakonomics called why do drug dealers live with their moms

The host references a chapter from the book Freakonomics as being based on the guest's research.

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a person you may recognize if you've read his amazing book gang leader for a day or the chapter in Freakonomics called why do drug dealers live with their moms

The host introduces the guest (Sudhir Venkatesh) by mentioning his well-known book.

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