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The Rise and Decline of Nations
Mancur Olson
“I love this book”
“it's by Manser Olsen, who's sort of a founder of public interest economics, and it's called The Rise and Decline of Nations. Libertarians love this book. Um and I love this book.”— Ezra Klein
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Abundance
Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson
“they've written a new book simply titled Abundance that lays out a kind of manifesto for the left”— Lex Fridman
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Why We're Polarized
Ezra Klein
“My first book is called Why We're Polarized. It's about those almost hydraulic incentives for partisanship.”— Ezra Klein
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Hitmakers
Derek Thompson
“Derek is a writer at The Atlantic, author of Hitmakers and On Work, and host of the Plain English podcast.”— Lex Fridman
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On Work
Derek Thompson
“Derek is a writer at The Atlantic, author of Hitmakers and On Work, and host of the Plain English podcast.”— Lex Fridman
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Confidence Man
Maggie Haberman
“if you read say Maggie Haberman's great biography of Donald Trump, Confidence Man, which focuses a lot on his time as a real estate magnet in New York”— Ezra Klein
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Meet Me in the Bathroom
Lizzy Goodman
“I just read uh Meet Me in the Bathroom by Lizzie Goodman, a sort of oral history of of the as rock revival in New York City. A housing story.”— Ezra Klein
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From Counterculture to Cyberculture
Fred Turner
“is it Frederick Turner's um from cyber cult from counterculture to cyber culture. That was a story of cheap housing.”— Ezra Klein
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