Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Government
It’s Nick and Goldy’s summer reading list!
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Every book mentioned in this episode:
The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous by Joseph Henrich
Escape from Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity by Walter Scheidel
The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good? by Michael J. Sandel
Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Merit by Robert H. Frank
The Black Swan and Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Democracy, Race, and Justice: The Speeches and Writings of Sadie T. M. Alexander by Nina Banks
Why Buddhism is True by Robert Wright
Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope by Jon Meacham
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee
1491 by Charles C. Mann
Nature’s God: The Heretical Origins of the American Republic by Matthew Stewart
The Second World War by Winston Churchill
Lafayette in the Somewhat United States by Sarah Vowell
Debt by David Graeber
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