Guest on Conversations with Tyler, EconTalk
2 books recommended · 2 episodes
Books they recommend that someone else wrote.
“And I found it kind of mesmerizing in a similar way to My Struggle by Nausgaard, in that sometimes you finish a novel and it's, you know, okay, on to the next one.”
Why: Mesmerizing and opens up a whole world.
My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgård
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“I could point people to Paul Krugman's book, Pop Internationalism, which does a very effective job of refuting many of these mercantilist ideas.”
Why: It does a very effective job of refuting many mercantilist ideas.
Pop Internationalism by Paul R. Krugman
Guest on EconTalkWhy Industrial Policy Is (Almost) Always a Bad Idea (with Scott Sumner)
Named without an opinion attached.
“And, of course, Adam Smith saw a lot of things in The Wealth of Nations, but one of them that he spends time on is why that is not the right way to think about well-being…”
The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
Guest on EconTalkWhy Industrial Policy Is (Almost) Always a Bad Idea (with Scott Sumner)
“And then there's some novels where you feel like a whole world has been sort of opened up in front of you. And I think My Struggle was like that. And I think Solenoid was like that. And earlier ones like In Search of Lost Time and some of the classics…”
In Search of Lost Time V by Marcel Proust
Guest on Conversations with TylerScott Sumner on Monetary Rules, Blooming Late, and the Death of Cinema