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Steve Levitt's book recommendations
Books Steve Levitt recommends
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Everything Is Tuberculosis
Discussed“In the past, John said that discussion influenced his decision to stop writing the novel he was working on and instead devote himself to writing his new book, Everything is Tuberculosis.”
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Unforgiving Places
Discussed“So, you've written a book. It's called Unforgiving Places. And one piece of your book that I really love is how you capture the assumptions that people on the right and the left make about the causes of crime.”
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Cutting for Stone
Discussed“your third book and your first novel. It was called Cutting for Stone. Two years on the New York Times bestseller list.”
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My Own Country
Discussed“And your first book entitled My Own Country is a memoir of that time. And wow, it captures some of the most heart-wrenching experiences imaginable.”
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Scarcity
Discussed“But in this week's episode, I pick up in the middle of our conversation with me telling Sendil about my first reaction to hearing that he had written a book entitled Scarcity.”
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The Covenant of Water (Oprah's Book Club)
Discussed“And then your most recent book is called The Covenant Water. And it's again a huge bestseller.”
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
Thinking, Fast and Slow is a blockbuster bestselling book by Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman that explores human cognition through two systems of thinking, significantly influencing behavioral economics and psychology.
Discussed“It's what Danny Conorman calls system one versus system two thinking. Can you explain to someone why those two modes of thinking matter? Reading Danny Conaman's book, Thinking Fast and Slow, really was just a life-changing experience for me and so many other people”
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Other mentions (1: passing, ad reads, own books)
Passing The Fault in Our Stars
“Green built his reputation writing blockbuster young adult novels like The Fault in Our Stars and creating extremely popular YouTube channels, including Crash Course.”