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- 1 Hamas and its two million hostagesAhmed Fwad Al Katib · 1× across 1 episode
- 2 New TestamentVarious (Traditional) · 1× across 1 episode
- 3 The Revolt Against Humanity: Imagining a Future Without UsAdam Kirsch · 1× across 1 episode
- 4 The War of the WorldsH.G. Wells · 1× across 1 episode
Incentives Are for Losers (with Adam Mastroianni)
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Meritocracy, Exams, and the Knowledge That Matters (with Daisy Christodoulou)
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No Trades Men and No Women
Michael Coolikan
and the book that i draw on to make the the that i think makes a revisionist argument really well is a book by a guy called michael coolikan called no trades men and no women ▶ tap to play from here
Hamas and the Future of Gaza (with Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib)
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Hamas and its two million hostages
Ahmed Fwad Al Katib
our topic for today is his recent book hamas and its two million hostages ▶ tap to play from here
Are We Alone? Cosmic Loneliness and the Longing to Believe (with Adam Kirsch)
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The Revolt Against Humanity: Imagining a Future Without Us
Adam Kirsch
our topic for today is his latest book we want when mainstream and why it matters adam welcome back to econ talk ▶ tap to play from here
New Testament
Various (Traditional)
faith is the evidence of things not seen is is what the new testament says ▶ tap to play from here
The War of the Worlds
H.G. Wells
thought of it even more as as sort of like the way we think about germs ▶ tap to play from here
The Hidden Cause of the Industrial Revolution (with Ben Southwood)
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Ben Sasse on Faith, Family, and Facing Death
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80,000 Hours: Find a fulfilling career that does good
Benjamin Todd
i think i uh on amazon a couple days ago just ordered uh benjamin todd's eighty thousand hours or whatever it is making eighty thousand hours count again ▶ tap to play from here
Commentary on the Heidelberg Catechism
Zacharias Ursinus
i've you know recently been rereading zachariah erzinus's fifteen sixty three commentary on the heidelberg catechism ▶ tap to play from here
Old Jules
Mari Sandoz
i just started reading marie sandoz's old jewels uh which is a biography of her father as a swiss dude who became a frontier pioneer farmer in nebraska in the eighteen eighties ▶ tap to play from here
The Political Economy of Palestine (with Hussein Aboubakr Mansour)
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Savage Landscapes (with Cal Flyn)
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Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
Cal Flynn
her latest book and the topic for today's conversation is the savage landscape how we made the wilderness ▶ tap to play from here
Epic of Gilgamesh
Unknown
about going into the wilderness in search of transcendents of a kind you know gilgamesh is looking for the ▶ tap to play from here
Ramayana
Valmiki
in the story of the buddha we see this in the story of prince rama ▶ tap to play from here
Thicker Than Water
Cal Flynn
and really what that landscape is is the result of forest stick farming it's the result of the planting of fruit trees it's the the results of tending i'm not sure i'd call it farming exactly or or forest farming has become a term but it is an interaction with the landscape and it's a purposeful interaction with the landscape and through understanding that you can see how the people of the place and the place are are all sewn up together and that turns out to be true all over the ▶ tap to play from here
Dwayne Betts on the Iliad
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The Iliad
Homer
this is the second installment of the econ talk book club on the iliad by homer ▶ tap to play from here
Odyssey
Homer
of course the odyssey the the next book is is all about that and and the attempt to return home ▶ tap to play from here
Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes
um don quixote as as being the birthplace the the birth of the novel ▶ tap to play from here
Errata
George Steiner
insight i got from george steiner when he writes about this book yeah this passage in his book errata ▶ tap to play from here
How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life
Russ Roberts
a sophisticated self help book but i would agree that it's a a book that's giving you real practical ways of how to live ▶ tap to play from here
A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles
another book he talked about was um a gentleman in moscow ▶ tap to play from here
The Truce
Primo Levi
the second book in that what's the other book yeah the the truth ▶ tap to play from here
If This Is a Man
Primo Levi
if this is a man i mean uh the connection you know where i've literally every time i perform my solo show so at this point probably you know dozens of times i've opened it up with a passage ▶ tap to play from here
From Sawdust to Paw Patrol: The Spin Master Story (with Ronnen Harary)
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No Experience Necessary: Why Betting on Yourself in Your Twenties is the Best Decision You'll Ever Make
Ronan Harari
and he's the author of no experience necessary why betting on yourself in your twenties is the best decision it'll ever make which is our topic for today ▶ tap to play from here
Harry Potter
J.K. Rowling
jk rowling has sold about six hundred million copies of of harry potter books which is an extraordinary achievement ▶ tap to play from here
EconTalk Book Club on the Iliad (with Ido Hevroni)
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Iliad
Homer
every year since the college opened thirteen years ago edo has been teaching the iliad by homer ▶ tap to play from here
War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy
everything from war and peace uh norman maylor's the naked and the dead ▶ tap to play from here
Something from Nothing
Phoebe Gilman
it's one of our one of my favorite children's books is called something for noth something from nothing and it's about a family that the father's a tailor and he's constantly uh salvaging and repurposing clothing ▶ tap to play from here
Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character
Jonathan Shay
jonathan shay he wrote a book called a killis in vietnam ▶ tap to play from here
Do Less, Heal More: The Case for Medical Conservatism (with John Mandrola)
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The Iliad
Homer
we'll be doing an e talk book club around the iliad by homer ▶ tap to play from here
The Vision of the Anointed
Thomas Sowell
his book which um which i recommend a vision of the anointed ▶ tap to play from here
Can a Phone Be a Cow? (with Philip Auerswald)
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The Iliad
Homer
they won't be doing an econ talk book club around the iliad by homer ▶ tap to play from here
A phone is a cow: how pioneers of the mobile revolution help millions lift themselves out of poverty
Philip Arswald
our topic for today is his latest book with the delightful title a phone is a cow how pioneers of the mobile revolution help millions lift themselves out of poverty ▶ tap to play from here
The Passions and the Interests
Albert Hirschman
my favorite book about smith is actually ▶ tap to play from here
War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy
is um is talking about tolstoy's um uh second epilogue to war and peace ▶ tap to play from here
The Innovator's Dilemma
Clayton Christensen
it relates to clayton christensen in the innovator's dilemma which you've talked about recently on the program ▶ tap to play from here
The Wolves of K Street
Brooke A. Masters
and i just r uh just just read a great book um about uh lobbying called the wolves of k street ▶ tap to play from here
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Daron Acemoglu
i mostly find about the uh uh some oglou and robinson b ▶ tap to play from here
The Case for Sunshine (with Rowan Jacobsen)
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Truffle Hound
Rowan Jacobson
it was last here in octor of tony twenty one talking about his book truffle hound ▶ tap to play from here
In Defense of Sunlight: The Surprising Science and What It Means for Us
Rowan Jacobson
his latest book is in defense of sunlight the surprising science of sun exposure ▶ tap to play from here
The Self, the Crowd, and Social Contagion (with Luke Burgis)
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The One and the Ninety Nine: Forging Identity in the Age of Social Contagion
Luke Burgess
his latest book is the one and the ninety nine forging identity in the age of social contagion ▶ tap to play from here
Hamlet
William Shakespeare
he's got a high school writing assignment i think it was hamlet ▶ tap to play from here
The Odyssey
Homer
such as um such as um such as the odyssey which came up earlier in the call right um homer ▶ tap to play from here
The Rule of Saint Benedict
Saint Benedict of Nursia
so i went back and i read the rule of benedict from front to back ▶ tap to play from here
Making Your 80,000 Hours Count (with Benjamin Todd)
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Facing Death (with Sebastian Junger)
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Tom Cruise's Body of Work (with Aled Maclean-Jones)
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Thinking Inside the Box (with David Epstein)
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Golfing Alone (with Gary Belsky)
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