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Russ Roberts’s book recommendations in 2022

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Monica Guzman on Curiosity and Conversation in Contentious Times

EconTalk · 2022-12-12

I Never Thought of It That Way by Mónica Guzmán · discussed · at 0:13
On Liberty by John Stuart Mill · recommended · at 55:57

Patrick House on Consciousness

EconTalk · 2022-12-05

Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness by Patrick House · recommended · at 1:17:07

Annie Duke on the Power of Quitting

EconTalk · 2022-11-28

Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer · recommended · at 36:00

Agnes Callard on Meaning, the Human Quest, and the Aims of Education

EconTalk · 2022-11-14

Midlife by Kieran Setiya · discussed · at 15:11
Arcadia by Tom Stoppard · discussed · at 32:51

Jessica Todd Harper on Beauty, Family, and Photography

EconTalk · 2022-11-07

All Joy and No Fun by Jennifer Senior · discussed · at 1:02:17

Michael Munger on Industrial Policy

EconTalk · 2022-10-31

The Forgotten Man by Amity Shlaes · discussed · at 29:34

Ryan Holiday on Discipline Is Destiny

EconTalk · 2022-10-24

Discipline Is Destiny by Ryan Holiday · discussed · at 0:17
Talent by Tyler Cowen · discussed · at 13:43

Erik Hoel on Effective Altruism, Utilitarianism, and the Repugnant Conclusion

EconTalk · 2022-09-26

The life you can save by Peter Singer · discussed · at 14:22

An Economist’s Guide To Life’s Big Decisions - Russ Roberts - #531

Modern Wisdom · 2022-09-26

The Moral Animal by Robert Wright · discussed · at 18:11
Transformative Experience by L. A. Paul · discussed · at 23:21
The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith · discussed · at 32:52
Getting Things Done by David Allen · discussed · at 44:26

Kieran Setiya on Midlife

EconTalk · 2022-09-19

Midlife by Kieran Setiya · discussed · at 0:16
Lost in Thought by Zena Hitz · recommended · at 12:58

David McRaney on How Minds Change

EconTalk · 2022-09-12

How Minds Change by David McRaney · discussed · at 3:51
The Three Languages of Politics by Arnold Kling · recommended · at 43:04

Amor Towles on A Gentleman in Moscow and the Writer's Craft

EconTalk · 2022-08-29

The Method by Isaac Butler · discussed · at 8:43
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles · discussed · at 9:51
On Writing by Stephen King · discussed · at 11:27
Rules of Civility by Amor Towles · discussed · at 14:32

Tyler Cowen on Talent

EconTalk · 2022-08-15

Talent by Tyler Cowen · discussed · at 1:20
But What If We're Wrong? by Chuck Klosterman · discussed · at 31:00
One Long River of Song by Brian Doyle · recommended · at 31:20
Errata by George Steiner · recommended · at 31:51
A Complicated Jew by Hillel Halkin · discussed · at 31:58

Russ Roberts and Mike Munger on Wild Problems

EconTalk · 2022-08-08

Transformative Experience by L. A. Paul · discussed · at 7:17

#613: Russ Roberts on Lessons from F.A. Hayek and Nassim Taleb, Decision-Making Insights from Charles Darwin, The Dangers of Scientism, Wild Problems in Life and the Decisions That Define Us, Learnings from the Talmud, The Role of Prayer, and The Journey to Transcendence

The Tim Ferriss Show · 2022-08-05

Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb · recommended · at 1:20:16
Skin in the Game by Nassim Nicholas Taleb · discussed · at 1:23:35

Gerd Gigerenzer on How to Stay Smart in a Smart World

EconTalk · 2022-08-01

How to Stay Smart in a Smart World by Gerd Gigerenzer · discussed · at 0:12

John List on Scale, Uber, and the Voltage Effect

EconTalk · 2022-07-25

The Voltage Effect by John A. List · discussed · at 3:35
Great Ideas for VBS by John Robert Cutshall · discussed · at 3:35

Nassim Nicholas Taleb on the Nations, States, and Scale

EconTalk · 2022-07-11

Skin in the Game by Nassim Nicholas Taleb · discussed · at 23:12
Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb · discussed · at 23:12

A.J. Jacobs on Solving Life's Puzzles

EconTalk · 2022-06-27

The Puzzler by A.J. Jacobs · discussed · at 0:08

Roosevelt Montás on Rescuing Socrates

EconTalk · 2022-06-20

Rescuing Socrates by Roosevelt Montás · discussed · at 10:12
Errata by George Steiner · recommended · at 58:04
After Babel by George Steiner · recommended · at 59:06
Master and Man and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy · recommended · at 59:41
How Much Land Does a Man Need? by Leo Tolstoy · recommended · at 59:41
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders · recommended · at 1:00:00

Sridhar Ramaswamy on Google, Search, and Neeva

EconTalk · 2022-06-13

Why We Drive by Matthew B. Crawford · discussed · at 29:50

Matti Friedman on Leonard Cohen and the Yom Kippur War

EconTalk · 2022-06-06

Who by Fire by Matti Friedman · discussed · at 0:08
We Were The Future by Yael Neeman · recommended · at 1:04:24

Ian Leslie on Curiosity

EconTalk · 2022-05-30

Conflicted by Ian Leslie · discussed · at 0:08
Curious by Ian Leslie · discussed · at 0:12
The Puzzler by A.J. Jacobs · discussed · at 18:26

Diane Coyle on Cogs, Monsters, and Better Economics

EconTalk · 2022-05-23

Cogs and Monsters by Diane Coyle · discussed · at 4:46
Monsters by Diane Namm · discussed · at 4:46

Chris Blattman on Why We Fight

EconTalk · 2022-05-09

If this is a Man by Primo Levi · discussed · at 2:32
The Truce by Primo Levi · discussed · at 2:32
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison · discussed · at 2:32
Evil by Roy F. Baumeister · recommended · at 17:23

Dwayne Betts on Ellison, Levi, and Human Suffering

EconTalk · 2022-05-02

If this is a Man by Primo Levi · discussed · at 1:37
The Truce by Primo Levi · discussed · at 1:50
The Periodic Table by Primo Levi · discussed · at 8:16
Everything Flows by Vasily Grossman · recommended · at 57:10

Michael Munger on Antitrust

EconTalk · 2022-04-25

The antitrust paradox by Robert H. Bork · discussed · at 24:42
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy by Joseph Schumpeter · recommended · at 1:12:06

Tyler Cowen on Reading

EconTalk · 2022-04-18

Land, Politics and Nationalism by Philip Bull · discussed · at 6:15
The Republic by Plato · discussed · at 7:12
On Human Nature by Roger Scruton · discussed · at 10:21
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig · discussed · at 11:09
In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust · critiqued · at 13:15
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy · discussed · at 14:05
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy · critiqued · at 14:07
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky · recommended · at 14:20
A soldier of the great war by Mark Helprin · recommended · at 14:20
In the First Circle by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn · recommended · at 14:29
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens · recommended · at 14:41
Master and Man and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy · discussed · at 15:52
Israel by Daniel Gordis · discussed · at 18:16
After Babel by George Steiner · discussed · at 18:20
Errata by George Steiner · recommended · at 18:27
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison · discussed · at 18:47
Anarchy, State, and Utopia by Robert Nozick · discussed · at 45:41
Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb · discussed · at 45:50
The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith · discussed · at 46:05
African Genesis by Robert Ardrey · discussed · at 46:47
The Territorial Imperative by Robert Ardrey · discussed · at 47:09
The Social Contract by Robert Ardrey · discussed · at 47:15
Worlds in Collision by Immanuel Velikovsky · discussed · at 47:48
The Passover Plot by Hugh J. Schonfield · discussed · at 48:14
I, Robot by Isaac Asimov · discussed · at 48:44
Ulysses by James Joyce · discussed · at 54:41
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce · discussed · at 54:41
The Myth of the Rational Voter by Bryan Caplan · discussed · at 1:01:45
The Three Languages of Politics by Arnold Kling · recommended · at 1:01:52

Russ Roberts on Education

EconTalk · 2022-04-11

Lost in Thought by Zena Hitz · discussed · at 3:00
Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill · discussed · at 10:03
The Iliad by Homer · discussed · at 22:04
The Odyssey by Homer · discussed · at 22:04
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner · discussed · at 22:27

Richard Gunderman on Greed, Adam Smith, and Leo Tolstoy

EconTalk · 2022-04-04

Master and Man and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy · discussed · at 0:33
How Much Land Does a Man Need? by Leo Tolstoy · discussed · at 0:33
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders · recommended · at 1:08
The Hungry Soul by Leon Kass · recommended · at 43:08
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf · discussed · at 43:14

Pano Kanelos on Education and UATX

EconTalk · 2022-03-28

Master and Man and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy · recommended · at 0:11
How Much Land Does a Man Need? by Leo Tolstoy · recommended · at 0:11
If this is a Man by Primo Levi · recommended · at 0:18
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison · recommended · at 0:18
The Elements of Euclid by Euclid · discussed · at 16:07
The Iliad by Homer · discussed · at 20:38
The Odyssey by Homer · discussed · at 20:38
Richard II by William Shakespeare · discussed · at 31:54
Beowulf by Seamus Heaney · discussed · at 38:35

Robert Pindyck on Averting and Adapting to Climate Change

EconTalk · 2022-03-21

Climate Future by Robert S. Pindyck · discussed · at 0:17
Economic Risks of Climate Change by Trevor Houser · discussed · at 0:17

Angela Duckworth on Character

EconTalk · 2022-03-07

Master and Man and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy · recommended · at 0:15
How Much Land Does a Man Need? by Leo Tolstoy · recommended · at 0:15
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl · discussed · at 55:00

Tamar Haspel on First-Hand Food

EconTalk · 2022-02-28

To Boldly Grow by Tamar Haspel · discussed · at 0:12
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo · discussed · at 22:04
The Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter · discussed · at 28:26
Walden by Henry David Thoreau · critiqued · at 44:25

Luca Dellanna on Compulsion, Self-deception, and the Brain

EconTalk · 2022-02-21

The Control Heuristic by Luca Dellanna · discussed · at 0:09

Michael Eisenberg on the Start-Up Nation, Storytelling, and the Power of Technology

EconTalk · 2022-02-14

The Tree of Life and Prosperity by Michael A. Eisenberg · discussed · at 3:33

John Taylor on Inflation, the Fed, and the Taylor Rule

EconTalk · 2022-02-07

The Theory of Interest by Irving Fisher · discussed · at 14:41

Moshe Koppel on Norms, Tradition, and Resilient Societies

EconTalk · 2022-01-31

Judaism Straight Up by Moshe Koppel · discussed · at 0:36
Law, Legislation, and Liberty, Volume 19 by F. A. Hayek · discussed · at 45:08
Law, Legislation and Liberty, Volume 1 by F. A. Hayek · discussed · at 45:08
The Uses of Pessimism by Roger Scruton · discussed · at 1:02:01

Penny Lane on Loving and Loathing Kenny G

EconTalk · 2022-01-24

The Uses of Pessimism by Roger Scruton · discussed · at 14:07

Russ Roberts on Israel and Life as an Immigrant

Conversations with Tyler · 2022-01-19

The Odyssey by Homer · discussed · at 18:32
Catch-67 by Micah Goodman · recommended · at 58:11
Where We Are by Roger Scruton · discussed · at 1:10:10

Tyler Cowen and Russ Roberts on Nation, Immigration, and Israel

EconTalk · 2022-01-17

The Odyssey by Homer · discussed · at 18:29

Gregory Zuckerman on the Crazy Race to Create the COVID Vaccine

EconTalk · 2022-01-10

A Shot to Save the World by Gregory Zuckerman · discussed · at 0:13
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson · discussed · at 18:17

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