Guest on Conversations with Tyler
6 books recommended · 1 episode
Books they recommend that someone else wrote.
“The book Scarcity by Mullenathan and Shafir, Neither of the Mold, is, I think, a path-breaking liberal book.”
Why: It is a path-breaking book on agency and behavioral economics.
Scarcity by Sendhil Mullainathan
Guest on Conversations with TylerCass Sunstein on Liberalism and Rights in the Age of AI
“Instead, he basically reported, after obsessive work, I think two years of work, on the correspondence between Mill and Taylor. And the correspondence is one of the closest things we have to the correspondence, the fictional correspondence in my favorite book, which is By It's Possession, where the letters are ones of surpassing beauty.”
On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
Guest on Conversations with TylerCass Sunstein on Liberalism and Rights in the Age of AI
“So I recently reread Orwell's 1984, and what kind of staggered me about it is that Orwell's of two minds, and that's the power of the book.”
Why: It captures the powerful and complex duality of human attraction to tyranny.
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Guest on Conversations with TylerCass Sunstein on Liberalism and Rights in the Age of AI
“So I think it's one of the greatest books in the last 200 years. But the thesis that if the government starts regulating economic matters a la Roosevelt, then we're on the road to something like Stalin or Hitler, that's not true.”
Why: It is one of the greatest books in the last 200 years, despite having a central thesis that is partially flawed.
The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich A. von Hayek
Guest on Conversations with TylerCass Sunstein on Liberalism and Rights in the Age of AI
“If it's things like the work of Catherine McKinnon, which I greatly admire. She wrote Sexual Harassment of Working Women, which is an amazingly important book.”
Why: It is an amazingly important book.
Sexual Harassment of Working Women by Catharine A. MacKinnon
Guest on Conversations with TylerCass Sunstein on Liberalism and Rights in the Age of AI
“Instead, he basically reported, after obsessive work, I think two years of work, on the correspondence between Mill and Taylor. And the correspondence is one of the closest things we have to the correspondence, the fictional correspondence in my favorite book, which is By It's Possession, where the letters are ones of surpassing beauty.”
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept by Elizabeth Smart
Guest on Conversations with TylerCass Sunstein on Liberalism and Rights in the Age of AI