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Aled McLean-Jones

Guest on EconTalk

1 book recommended · 2 episodes

Recommends

Books they recommend that someone else wrote.

“I always, I do really love that arnold schwarzenegger book being called be useful because i think he sort of he doesn't realize but he's kind of like sort of stumbled upon the kind of the nature of the male condition rather than, you know, it's less kind of like a self-help guide, more just kind of like a rumination on the male, you know, the male condition and the kind of desire that we all have to try and be useful as men and stuff.”

Why: It offers a rumination on the male condition and the desire to be useful rather than just functioning as a self-help guide.

Be Useful by Arnold Schwarzenegger
Guest on EconTalkTom Cruise's Body of Work (with Aled Maclean-Jones)

Passing References

Named without an opinion attached.

“So that scene is a copy of, it's inspired by a scene in The Right Stuff, right? Which is a film based on the Tom Wolfe book about kind of, you know, pilots testing to be astronauts.”

The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
Guest on EconTalkTom Cruise's Body of Work (with Aled Maclean-Jones)

“So firstly, I was laughing a little bit because you mentioned Slide Rule, because the book I've got next to me while recording this is called Slide Rule. It's a memoir of a very niche English writer called Neville Schultz.”

Slide Rule by Nevil Shute
Guest on EconTalkSeiko, Swatch, and the Swiss Watch Industry (with Aled Maclean-Jones)