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Dwarkesh Patel’s book recommendations in 2022

45 books · 20 episodes · Dwarkesh Patel’s most recommended books, all years →

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Bethany McLean — Enron, FTX, 2008, Musk, frauds, & visionaries

Dwarkesh Podcast · 2022-12-21

The Smartest Guys in the Room by Bethany McLean · discussed · at 2:44
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky · discussed · at 31:26

Nadia Asparouhova — Tech elites, democracy, open source, & philanthropy

Dwarkesh Podcast · 2022-12-15

Working in Public by Nadia Asparouhova · discussed · at 21:16
The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro · discussed · at 1:07:19

Byrne Hobart - FTX, Drugs, Twitter, Taiwan, & Monasticism

Dwarkesh Podcast · 2022-12-01

The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro · discussed · at 31:26
The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama · discussed · at 1:02:00
How Asia Works by Joe Studwell · discussed · at 1:09:49
The Reckoning by David Halberstam · discussed · at 1:11:05

Edward Glaeser - Cities, Terrorism, Housing, & Remote Work

Dwarkesh Podcast · 2022-11-28

Survival of the City by Edward L. Glaeser, David Cutler · discussed · at 5:28
Palaces for the People by Eric Klinenberg · recommended · at 52:12
Triumph of the City by Edward L. Glaeser · recommended · at 55:58

Kenneth T. Jackson - Robert Moses, Hero of New York?

Dwarkesh Podcast · 2022-11-08

The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro · discussed · at 6:22
The Panorama of the City of New York by Marc H. Miller · discussed · at 6:44

Brian Potter - Future of Construction, Ugly Modernism, & Environmental Review

Dwarkesh Podcast · 2022-10-27

Where Is My Flying Car? by J. Storrs Hall · discussed · at 27:18
The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro · discussed · at 32:26

Bryan Caplan - Feminists, Billionaires, and Demagogues

Dwarkesh Podcast · 2022-10-20

Don't be a Feminist by Bryan Douglas Caplan · discussed · at 1:08

Tyler Cowen - Talent, Collapse, & Pessimism of Sex

Dwarkesh Podcast · 2022-09-28

The Myth of the Rational Voter by Bryan Caplan · discussed · at 1:05
Talent by Tyler Cowen · discussed · at 9:09
The Case against Education by Bryan Caplan · discussed · at 21:48
An Economist Gets Lunch by Tyler Cowen · discussed · at 44:40

Charles C. Mann - Americas Before Columbus & Scientific Wizardry

Dwarkesh Podcast · 2022-09-14

1491 by Charles C. Mann, Charles Mann · discussed · at 1:04
1493 by Charles C. Mann, Charles Mann · discussed · at 1:14
The Wizard and the Prophet by Charles C. Mann · discussed · at 1:14
The Anarchy by William Dalrymple · discussed · at 7:45
Against the Grain by James C. Scott · discussed · at 13:00

Austin Vernon - Energy Superabundance, Starship Missiles, & Finding Alpha

Dwarkesh Podcast · 2022-09-08

The machine that changed the world by James P. Womack · discussed · at 28:55
Toyota Production System by Taiichi Ohno · discussed · at 28:55
The Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox · discussed · at 47:57
Where Is My Flying Car? by J. Storrs Hall · discussed · at 1:25:06
What We Owe the Future by William MacAskill · discussed · at 1:45:26

Steve Hsu - Intelligence, Embryo Selection, & The Future of Humanity

Dwarkesh Podcast · 2022-08-23

The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins · discussed · at 34:40
The Case against Education by Bryan Caplan · discussed · at 1:19:32
When Genius Failed by Roger Lowenstein · discussed · at 1:53:31

Fin Moorhouse - Longtermism, Space, & Entrepreneurship

Dwarkesh Podcast · 2022-07-27

Talent by Tyler Cowen · discussed · at 52:27
Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb · discussed · at 1:26:21
The Precipice by Toby Ord · discussed · at 1:39:01
A Study of History by Arnold J. Toynbee · discussed · at 2:00:21

Alexander Mikaberidze - Napoleon, War, Progress, and Global Order

Dwarkesh Podcast · 2022-07-13

The Napoleonic Wars by Alexander Mikaberidze · discussed · at 0:49
How Asia Works by Joe Studwell · discussed · at 18:38

Agustin Lebron - Trading, Crypto, and Adverse Selection

Dwarkesh Podcast · 2022-06-23

The Laws of Trading by Agustin Lebron · recommended · at 0:37

Ananyo Bhattacharya - John von Neumann, Jewish Genius, and Nuclear War

Dwarkesh Podcast · 2022-05-11

The Man from the Future by Ananyo Bhattacharya · recommended · at 0:30

Pradyu Prasad - Imperial Japan, the God Emperor, and Militarization in the Modern World

Dwarkesh Podcast · 2022-04-27

Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix · discussed · at 2:10
Public Choice Theory and the Illusion of Grand Strategy by Richard Hanania · discussed · at 17:19
The World Economy by Horst Siebert · discussed · at 39:38

Jimmy Soni - Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and the Paypal Mafia

Dwarkesh Podcast · 2022-04-16

Rome's Last Citizen by Rob Goodman · discussed · at 0:38
The Founders by Jimmy Soni · discussed · at 0:44
Zero to One by Peter Thiel · discussed · at 20:38

Bryan Caplan - Discrimination, Poverty, & Mental Illness

Dwarkesh Podcast · 2022-04-12

Labor Econ Versus the World by Bryan Douglas Caplan · recommended · at 0:23
Coming apart by Charles A. Murray · discussed · at 10:40

Richard Hanania - Foreign Policy, Fertility, and Wokeness

Dwarkesh Podcast · 2022-02-24

Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker · discussed · at 29:45

David Deutsch - AI, America, Fun, & Bayes

Dwarkesh Podcast · 2022-01-31

The beginning of infinity by David Deutsch · discussed · at 36:55
The Fabric of Reality by David Deutsch · discussed · at 36:55

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