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Books podcasts were talking about in April 2021
During April 2021, the Lex Fridman Podcast featured several notable discussions surrounding various literary works across multiple episodes. In an episode with Jeremi Suri, the host touched upon Suri's book Henry Kissinger and the American Century while also discussing Complete Works of Thomas Brooks by Alexander B. Grosart and Thomas Brooks, which the guest highlighted as a favorite graduate school novel depicting 19th-century life in Lubeck. Later in the month, Robert Breedlove appeared on the show to discuss several economic and philosophical titles. Breedlove referenced Robert Linssen's Zen and its lesser-known follow-up Leela, pointed to James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg's The Sovereign Individual as the foundation for his sovereignism series, and recommended Ferdinand Lips's Gold Wars for its insights into government opposition to gold. Additionally, Tyler Cowen discussed several of his own authored works with the host, including The Great Stagnation, Average Is Over, and his most recent release, Big Business: A Love Letter to an American Anti-Hero, rounding out a month rich in historical, economic, and philosophical literature.
Lex Fridman Podcast
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Henry Kissinger and the American Century
Discussed“speaking of war you wrote a book on henry kissinger”
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Complete Works of Thomas Brooks
Discussed“so one of my favorite novels that i read actually when i was in graduate school is thomas mons button brooks and it's the story of a family in lubeck in northern germany living through the 19th century and the rise and fall of families cycles of life”
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Zen
Discussed“Robert perig so he wrote Zen In The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance which is a very popular book book 20 years later he wrote Leela which no one's heard of”
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The Sovereign Individual
Discussed“I've written a lot about this uh in a new series called sovereignism which is based Loosely on a book called The sovereign individual”
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Gold Wars
Discussed“There's a great book on this called the gold Wars um that that outlines how governments have been waging a cold war against gold for the past 50 years”
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The Great Stagnation
Discussed“author of many books including the great stagnation average is over and his most recent big business a love letter to an american anti-hero”
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Average Is Over
Discussed“author of many books including the great stagnation average is over and his most recent big business a love letter to an american anti-hero”
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Big Business
Discussed“author of many books including the great stagnation average is over and his most recent big business a love letter to an american anti-hero”
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An Economic Survey of Iran
Discussed“the book that really mattered for me was capitalism the unknown ideal”
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We the Living
Discussed“if she was still alive i'd only ask her about russia which she mostly never talked about after writing we the living”
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Boswell's Life of Johnson
Discussed“like in my view boswell's life of johnson 18th century british biography it's in essence a co-authored work boswell and johnson”
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The Essential Stalin
Discussed“he was a stalinist he edited the book called the essential stalin brilliant guy”
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The Use of Knowledge in Society
Discussed“Another is iran capitalism the unknown ideal but i would say the friedrich hayek essay the use of knowledge in society which is about how decentralized mechanisms can work”
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Individualism and Economic Order
Discussed“and that was in a book called individualism and economic order but it was just a few essays in that book”
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The White Paper
Discussed“but my recommendations would be you know obviously the bitcoin white paper that's uh and satoshi's complimentary writings that's very important is to try to understand the intentions behind the system and also to understand the system without having your view colored by some third parties description of it”
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Bitcoin
Discussed“Then technical books about bitcoin i like grocking bitcoin uh which is a very computer science-heavy one”
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Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies
Discussed“There's a good textbook um called uh bitcoin and cryptocurrency technologies um by arvind naranian I think he's um a princeton um computer science professor which is really good at building intuition”
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Mastering Bitcoin
Discussed“um antonopoulos's books uh mastering bitcoin are good”
