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Every book Toby Stuart recommended on podcasts

Key facts

  • Toby Stuart has recommended or discussed 1 book on podcasts, as of October 6, 2025.
  • Toby Stuart has talked about books on 1 podcast, as of October 6, 2025.
  • Those books came up in 1 episode, as of October 6, 2025.
  • The book Toby Stuart has mentioned in the most episodes, as of October 6, 2025: Leviathan.
  • The latest episode with a book mention from Toby Stuart aired on October 6, 2025.

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Guest on EconTalk · 1 book · 1 episode across 1 podcast

Books Toby Stuart recommended or discussed

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  1. Leviathan

    Thomas Hobbes · Discussed · 1 episode

    Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes is a foundational 1651 political treatise arguing that human life in a state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short, and that peace requires absolute submission to a strong central authority.

    Discussed
    “So um one is you know and let's go all the way back to you know Leviathan which we both probably read in in in graduate school but but but no one likes man in in in the state of n in his state of nature without so some sort of social organization”
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Books Toby Stuart wrote

Appearances

EpisodePodcastDateBooks
The Invisible Hierarchies that Rule Our World (with Toby Stuart)EconTalk2025-10-061
Other mentions (5: passing, ad reads, own books)
Plugged Anointed
“Um in the modern world, you know, the book argues it does a whole lot more than that. Um and you know, the the other kind of main functions of the status hierarchy is one, it helps us resolve uncertainty and judgment.”
Plugged Anointed
“I mean so there are these products where and you know weirdly there are products where there you know I sort of get into this a little bit in the book but like if you're a social scientist you you just wouldn't expect status dynamics there”
Plugged Anointed
“And and in fact I you know a central central point in the book is that the reason we have the status system is functional like we have we have a curatorial problem right and we just talked about art”
Plugged Anointed
“And so I started to like chase down Michishel and starred chefs cuz that that was just for me that was there the book there's a there's a hundred examples of stuff in the book and you know and they're like the ones I found interesting or fun as I was writing it.”
Plugged Anointed
“So, so in the in the book, you know, I I I I argue there's like three and a half sources of status. The one, you know, that that we're talking about with expertise.”