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Every book Travis Oliphant recommended on podcasts
Travis Oliphant appeared on the Lex Fridman Podcast to discuss scientific programming, Python, NumPy, SciPy, and Anaconda, while also reflecting on his self-guided intellectual journey into economics during his PhD studies. Oliphant recounted encountering a set of writings from thinkers who considered themselves the ideological inheritors of Adam Smith. Through this exploration, he read Adam Smith's foundational work, The Wealth of Nations, which introduced him to core concepts regarding the emergence of complex economic systems and emergent societies, opening up an entirely new world of intellectual inquiry for him. In addition to Smith, Oliphant discussed discovering other economic writings that deeply influenced his thinking, specifically highlighting a 1920 paper by Ludwig von Mises titled Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth. He emphasized that von Mises's work on the economic calculation problem in socialist systems remains profoundly important and still deserves far more attention and reading today than it typically receives.
Books recommended by Travis Oliphant
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Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth
Discussed“I found a lot of writings i really loved I found some things that i really loved and i learned from that it was writings from people like von mises he wrote a pre-order paper in 1920 that still should be read more than it is It's got I mean it was the economic calculation problem of the socialist commonwealth”
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The Wealth of Nations
The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith is a foundational 1776 text examining the nature and causes of the wealth of nations and the mechanics of a free market economy.
Discussed“and i encountered a basically what i encountered a set of writings from people that said they were the inheritors adam smith but adam smith for the first time right which is the wealth of nations and kind of this notion of emergent emergent societies”
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Books Travis Oliphant wrote
Appearances
| Episode | Podcast | Date | Books |
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| #224 – Travis Oliphant: NumPy, SciPy, Anaconda, Python & Scientific Programming | Lex Fridman Podcast | 2021-09-23 | 3 |
Other mentions (2: passing, ad reads, own books)
“so i wrote a book and i said i'm going to write a book and i'm going to charge for it It was called guide to numpy and so ultimately numpy became documentation driven development because i basically wrote the book and made sure the stuff worked to the book would work”
“it was called guide to numpy and so ultimately numpy became documentation driven development because i basically wrote the book and made sure the stuff worked to the book would work”