Content tagged with "economics"

The one lesson is this: you have to consider ALL effects of economic intervention. The author claims that too many people intervene in the economy by only considering the effect on one group of people, not acknowledging that their change has also affected another group. The author is from the…

I bailed out on this book about a third of the way in because it doesn’t really have a point. The only point is that the author is pissed off and wants to rant about stuff. The author is kind of an Internet personality. He was an editor for Rolling Stone, he has a podcast and a Substack, and last…

This is another book to which I gave every chance, but I eventually abandoned because it just never proved its point. The author is apparently quite famous in politically conservative circles. His prior book – Wealth and Poverty – was well-known, and I gather that he had something to do with…

Honestly, I didn’t totally get this book. The basic premise is that there are “narratives” that drive economics. There are stories or explanations of things that we believe, and that cause economic things to happen. Some examples, from the book: If that sounds vague…well, yeah. I didn’t understand…

Vaclav Smil is a scientist and policy analyst. His specialty to looking at societal problems and figuring out how science and policy should intersect to make it better. He taught environmental science at the University of Manitoba. Bill Gates has said several times that Smil is one of his favorite…

Vaguely interesting book about how people spend their money on “luxury” items in order to publicly denote a certain level of social class. Lots of figures, graphs, etc. Not 100% of the point that it was trying to get at, honestly.