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Russ Roberts’s book recommendations in 2024

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Is This War With Lebanon Different? (with Matti Friedman)

EconTalk · 2024-12-16

Pumpkinflowers by Matti Friedman · recommended · at 0:38

Why Industrial Policy Is (Almost) Always a Bad Idea (with Scott Sumner)

EconTalk · 2024-12-09

The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith · discussed · at 3:55

Translating Life and Fate (with Robert Chandler)

EconTalk · 2024-12-02

Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman · discussed · at 0:16
Stalingrad by Vasily Grossman · discussed · at 0:38
The First Circle by Александр Солженицын · discussed · at 23:25
The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit︠s︡yn · discussed · at 23:25
The road by Василий Семёнович Гроссман · discussed · at 38:33
Everything Flows by Vasily Grossman · recommended · at 48:22

Russ Roberts on Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate

Conversations with Tyler · 2024-11-25

Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman · discussed · at 0:26
The First Circle by Александр Солженицын · discussed · at 5:16
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky · discussed · at 5:16
The road by Василий Семёнович Гроссман · discussed · at 55:44

Tyler Cowen on Life and Fate

EconTalk · 2024-11-25

Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman · recommended · at 0:23
The road by Василий Семёнович Гроссман · discussed · at 55:42

Who Needs Miracles? On Nature and the Miraculous (with Alan Lightman)

EconTalk · 2024-11-11

Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman · recommended · at 58:18

Susan Cain on Bittersweet and the Happiness of Melancholy

EconTalk · 2024-10-28

Bittersweet by Susan Cain · discussed · at 0:07
Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman · recommended · at 38:31

Why Housing Is Artificially Expensive and What Can Be Done About It (with Bryan Caplan)

EconTalk · 2024-10-21

Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman · book club pick · at 0:12

Misinformation and the Three Languages of Politics (with Arnold Kling)

EconTalk · 2024-10-14

The Noble Lie by Gary Greenberg · recommended · at 29:01
The Three Languages of Politics by Arnold Kling · discussed · at 41:45

Reclaiming Tribalism (with Michael Morris)

EconTalk · 2024-10-07

Tribal by Michael Morris · discussed · at 0:38
Orbiting the Giant Hairball by Gordon MacKenzie · recommended · at 39:18

The Underrated Bruno Leoni (with Michael Munger)

EconTalk · 2024-09-30

Freedom and the Law by Bruno Leoni · discussed · at 1:02:38

The Mysterious World of Owls (with Jennifer Ackerman)

EconTalk · 2024-09-23

Truffle Hound by Rowan Jacobsen · recommended · at 49:18

What Modern Medicine Gets Wrong (with Marty Makary)

EconTalk · 2024-09-16

Blind Spots by Marty Makary · discussed · at 0:20

Chaos and Complexity Economics (with J. Doyne Farmer)

EconTalk · 2024-08-26

The Eudaemonic Pie by Thomas A Bass · discussed · at 41:29

How Do You Capture the Tragedy of War? (with Sabin Howard)

EconTalk · 2024-08-12

What Is Art? by Leo Tolstoy · discussed · at 24:03
The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig · discussed · at 24:18
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards · recommended · at 43:10

The Ever-Present Challenge of Escaping Poverty (with Noah Smith)

EconTalk · 2024-08-05

I, Pencil - My Family Tree As Told to Leonard E. Read by Leonard Edward Read · discussed · at 41:45
The Use of Knowledge in Society by Friedrich August Hayek · discussed · at 41:45

Sam Harris on Jew-Hatred, Radical Islam, and the West

EconTalk · 2024-07-29

The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig · recommended · at 17:14

Does Parenting Make You a Better Person? (with Erik Hoel)

EconTalk · 2024-07-22

The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle · discussed · at 14:15
Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown · discussed · at 15:01
Curious George Discovers the Rainbow by H A Rey · discussed · at 15:10
The Seven Silly Eaters by Mary Ann Hoberman · recommended · at 17:51
The Gardener by Dabney Day · recommended · at 17:51
Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie · discussed · at 29:11

Lessons from Lincoln, Then and Now (with Diana Schaub)

EconTalk · 2024-07-15

His Greatest Speeches by Diana Schaub · recommended · at 1:03:38

Reading, Writing, and Fighting (with Mark Helprin)

EconTalk · 2024-07-08

The Oceans and the Stars by Mark Helprin · discussed · at 0:21
Refiner's Fire by Mark Helprin · discussed · at 8:39
A Dove of the East by Mark Helprin · discussed · at 8:47
Ellis Island by Mark Helprin · discussed · at 8:47
The Pacific and Other Stories by Mark Helprin · recommended · at 17:29
A soldier of the great war by Mark Helprin · recommended · at 17:48
Freddy and Fredericka by Mark Helprin · discussed · at 18:10
Swan Lake by Mark Helprin · discussed · at 18:34
The Ulysses Theme by W. B. Stanford · discussed · at 27:26

René Girard, Mimesis, and Conflict (with Cynthia Haven)

EconTalk · 2024-06-24

Evolution of Desire by Cynthia L Haven · discussed · at 0:13
All Desire is a Desire for Being by René Girard · discussed · at 0:21
The Scapegoat by René Girard · discussed · at 29:35
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky · discussed · at 45:52

How the Constitution Can Bring Us Together (with Yuval Levin)

EconTalk · 2024-06-10

The Year of Living Constitutionally by A.J. Jacobs · recommended · at 2:08

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of the Covid Vaccine (with Vinay Prasad)

EconTalk · 2024-05-27

The Noble Lie by Gary Greenberg · recommended · at 1:09:35

Purpose, Pleasure, and Meaning in a World Without Work (with Nicholas Bostrom)

EconTalk · 2024-05-20

Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren by John Maynard Keynes · discussed · at 27:05
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley · discussed · at 37:31

Glenn Loury Tells All

EconTalk · 2024-05-13

Late Admissions by Glenn C. Loury · discussed · at 0:54

Living with the Constitution (with A.J. Jacobs)

EconTalk · 2024-05-06

The Year of Living Constitutionally by A.J. Jacobs · discussed · at 0:15
The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith · discussed · at 55:51

The Top EconTalk Conversations of 2023 (with Russ Roberts)

EconTalk · 2024-04-29

Ending Medical Reversal by Vinayak K. Prasad, Adam S. Cifu · discussed · at 30:43

When Prediction Is Not Enough (with Teppo Felin)

EconTalk · 2024-04-15

Rationality by Steven Pinker · discussed · at 23:53

Rituals Without Religion (with Michael Norton)

EconTalk · 2024-04-08

The Ritual Effect by Michael Norton · discussed · at 0:13
My Father Left Me Ireland by Michael Brendan Dougherty · discussed · at 21:34

Living with Exponential Change (with Azeem Azhar)

EconTalk · 2024-03-11

Exponential by Azeem Azhar · discussed · at 1:33
The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan Watts · recommended · at 1:01:39

How to Avoid Lying With Statistics (with Jeremy Weber)

EconTalk · 2024-03-04

Statistics for Public Policy by Jeremy G. Weber · recommended · at 5:29

The Secrets of Great Conversation (with Charles Duhigg)

EconTalk · 2024-02-26

Supercommunicators by Charles Duhigg · discussed · at 0:00

Year Zero of the Arab-Israeli Conflict (with Hillel Cohen)

EconTalk · 2024-02-12

Year Zero of the Arab-Israeli Conflict 1929 by Hillel Cohen · discussed · at 0:16
Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor by Yossi Klein Halevi · discussed · at 40:02

Should Israel Depend on the US? (with Michael Oren)

EconTalk · 2024-02-05

Six Days of War by Michael B. Oren · recommended · at 0:17
Power, Faith, and Fantasy by Michael B. Oren · discussed · at 0:35

If Life Is Random, Is It Meaningless? (with Brian Klaas)

EconTalk · 2024-01-22

Fluke by Brian Klaas · discussed · at 0:13

Can a Nation Plunder Its Way to Wealth (with Noah Smith)

EconTalk · 2024-01-15

The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith · discussed · at 23:02

The Challenge of Covering the Most Important Story on Earth (with Matti Friedman)

EconTalk · 2024-01-08

Who by Fire by Matti Friedman · discussed · at 0:13
The Three Languages of Politics by Arnold Kling · recommended · at 13:32

From the Second Intifada to October 7th (with Daniel Gordis)

EconTalk · 2024-01-01

If a Place Can Make You Cry by Daniel Gordis · recommended · at 0:49

Other mentions in 2024 (38: passing, ad reads, own books)