The Ezra Klein Show

One book which greatly influenced my book was the book Why Information Grows, which is by a physicist named Cesar Hidalgo, who presents this as a very different way of thinking about economic growth.

Since I write about scifi so much on my book, the Expanse series, which they turned into a TV series, which I view as a futureoptimist hardscience series.

My final book is The American Dream Is Not Dead by one of my AEI colleagues, Michael Strain, which is a nononsense look at issues like wage stagnation, income inequality, and the supposed gap between productivity and worker pay.

The first I would recommend is Anthony Enghi's Imperialism, Sovereignty, and the Making of International Law, which retells the history of international law as well as the intellectual history of canonical European jurists by centering the colonial encounter as the structuring event that triggered the emergence of international law as we know it.

I would also recommend Adom Getachew's Worldmaking after Empire, The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination, which returns to the era of decolonization to offer an account of how the principle of self-determination was differently understood by anti-colonial leaders and how that understanding had it prevailed might've yielded alternatives to logics of partition, logics like the logic that underlies the UN's involvement in Israel-Palestine and ideas of the two-state solution.

I decided to prioritize personal relationship, starting with your late friend of mine, Mark Kleiman, who wrote a book called Drugs and Drug Policy, What Everyone Needs to Know, co-authored with Jonathan Calkins and Angela Hawkins. And it is exactly what the title promises. It's accessible. It's something you can dip into and out of and answer any question you want.

Second book I would suggest, again, from a friend... the book is called DOGMAN Nation, which was a deserved bestseller around the world. It gives you much more of a human experience describing what it is like to be addicted... And then the book also talks about just the seeking of reward and a rewardsaturated society.

And the last one, maybe a more eccentric choice, but it's such a good book, is by Thomas De Quincey, and it's called Confessions of an English Opium Eater... he wrote a very scandalous account about his experience of longtime opium use, the pains of opium and the pleasures of opium and a bit about how it affects social relationships and human psychology.

You have a book by Carl Hart, who's a wellknown drug researcher at Columbia called Drug Use for GrownUps, where he talks openly about using heroin to relax at the end of the day.

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