Showing posts with label Politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Politics. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 9, 2024

books read by Jordan Peterson

the parasitic mind

return of the god hypothesis

the myth of mental illness

factfulness

east of eden

the madness of crowds

the rational optimist

an anthropologist on mars


Saturday, September 2, 2023

World View & Economics

 


xx Enlightenment Now (steven pinker)

xx The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (steven pinker)

xx Factfulness (Swedish guy)

xx Anti fragile (also above)

xx facts don’t care about your feelings by Ben Shapiro

(Machiavellian crap) - The 48 Laws of Power (Robert Greene)

xx - Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- remove everything that is fragile - likely to fail, or toxic...

k ... The Rational Optimist (Matt Ridley)

It's Getting Better all the Time
- Julian Simon and Stephen Moore

- the tyranny of convenience- Tim Wu

the great demographic reversal
- Manoj Pradhan

The Economy of Cities
- Book by Jane Jacobs


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Philosophy (truth, mass movements)

good - Eric Hoffer - True Believer


Propaganda - Edward Bernays


On Truth and Untruth: Selected Writings (Harper Perennial Modern...)


[bio] Eric Hoffer - The Longshoreman Philosopher (Hoover Institution Press)


Politics (mostly conservative...)

Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets


Reading Lolita in Tehran

 
Heather Mac Donald

Thomas Sorrell

Quilette (journal)

Wednesday, October 26, 2022

Thomas Sowell - economist and conservative commentator, USA

Thomas Sowell - economist and conservative commentator, USA

https://www.tsowell.com/

https://www.tsowell.com/quotes.html

https://www.tsowell.com/SuggestedRead.htm


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Sowell reading list - https://www.tsowell.com/SuggestedRead.htm
- Basic Economics - Sowell

... - (kindle has) Conservative Comebacks to Liberal Lies by Gregory Jackson
- Life at the Bottom by Theodore Dalrymple
- What Went Wrong by Bernard Lewis


Economics

- James Q Wilson - books on crime

- Peter Bower - on third world. Equality, the third world and economic delusion 

- Underdevelopment is a state of mind- Laurence Harrison

Sowell: a conflict of visions (sowells own fave), 

basic economics, (most readable)

black rednecks and white liberals.

vision of the anointed

knowledge and decisions 

other authors:

edward bellamy - Looking Backward


The Road to Serfdom
by Friedrich Hayek

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