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Every book Jimmy Wales recommended on podcasts
Books recommended by Jimmy Wales
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Atlas Shrugged
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand is a sprawling philosophical novel that champions Objectivism, individualism, and laissez-faire capitalism through a dystopian narrative about society grinding to a halt when its intellectual and economic innovators go on strike.
Discussed“people who just think oh she wrote these long ranting novels um about capitalism and i think there was more to her thinking than most people realized so underrated”
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Appearances
| Episode | Podcast | Date | Books |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jimmy Wales on Systems and Incentives | Conversations with Tyler | 2020-11-18 | 1 |
Other mentions (2: passing, ad reads, own books)
“I saw that Robert Merton won the Nobel Prize in economics for his work on option pricing theory.”
Passing Hamlet
“I mean, somebody started uploading the full text of Hamlet, for example, and we said, hmm, wait, hold on a second.”