Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2022-W19

“That might be the thing worth really trying to understand, because the practice itself is, you know, there’s a wonderful book by the sociologist Orlando Patterson called Slavery and Social Death that was published in 1982, which is a comprehensive history and social analysis of the institution of slavery over 2500 years.”

“Now, I, I read this wonderful book called The Swerve; uh, it's about Lucretius. It's about the nature of things, which is this great classical work from the Roman period by this, uh, guy Lucretius.”

“Um, there is a book by Richard John Neuhaus, the theologian called As I Lay Dying. As I lay dying, Richard John Neuhaus; uh, he had stomach cancer and he thought he was dying, and he wrote this book as he lay dying, and then he recovered.”

“Gunnar Myrdal, the Swedish economist who wrote about economic development, wrote a famous two-volume work, An American Dilemma, about the status of black Americans.”

“He's an Austrian economist, an anarchist, and the author of "The Bitcoin Standard" and the new book, "The Fiat Standard."”

“He's an Austrian economist, an anarchist, and the author of "The Bitcoin Standard" and the new book, "The Fiat Standard."”

“In the 1940s, he wrote Human Action, which is a big treatise on economics.”

“In the meantime, I want to direct your attention to his recently released book titled 'The Nature of the Beast: How Emotions Guide Us.'”