The Ezra Klein Show

He had a book called Down in New Orleans, which you should find and buy... I reread it just after he died... it's moving as ever.

I loved Madness and Modernism by Louis Sass. I think that was one of the books that made me want to write about psychosis.

Another book related to psychiatry is T.M. Luhrmann's Of Two Minds.

I guess I would recommend anything by Grace Paley.

I was left thinking a bit about a similarly named book by another New Yorker writer, Strangers Drowning by Larissa McFarquhar.

If you read the book, The Coddling of the American Mind by Hyde and Lukanov, they sort of make this argument that you have cognitive behavioral therapy, which teaches you in a healthy way to tell better stories about the world.

He's releasing a book laying out his vision. It's called Proof of Stake, the Making of Ethereum and the Philosophy of Blockchains.

there was one textbook on game theory that i forget the name of it now i think it's like something like Algorithmic Game Theory but that taught me just some of the finer points of game theory some of the finer points of like particularly how things break down when you have some you start to bring in assumptions of where people can coordinate with each other.

So let's talk about Joel Mocher's ideas for a minute. So Mocher is an economic historian. People should read his book, The Culture of Growth, which is really fascinating.

I'm right now reading Revolution and Empire which is a book about Edmund Burke. And it is just fabulous.

I can't remember if it's called Scene of Change or Scene of the Action, but it's Warren Weaver's autobiography. That's not a great book in the sense that you read it and you don't find it to be a vivid compelling page turner and your mind is not blown on every page. But I find myself thinking back to it quite a lot.

I have on my desk at home right now, A Widening Sphere, which is a history of MIT. I was rereading it recently. Who doesn't reread their histories of MIT? It was inspiring, showing how the founders had a broadbased desire for societal betterment and how MIT contributed to American prosperity and ingenuity.

the first is Making Climate Policy Work by Danny Cullenward and David Victor, which explores the political economy and really real world history and experience of using marketbased instruments like carbon taxes or emissions cap and trade programs to try to tackle climate change. I think the book does a really good job of summarizing both a range of scholarship and the kind of real world experience that we've gotten in the few places that have succeeded in implementing carbon pricing to show how political constraints inevitably make them far less effective than ideally they are.

The first is Making Climate Policy Work by Danny Cullenward and David Victor, which explores the political economy and really real world history and experience of using marketbased instruments like carbon taxes or emissions cap and trade programs to try to tackle climate change.

I think the book does a really good job of summarizing both a range of scholarship and the kind of real world experience that we've gotten in the few places that have succeeded in implementing carbon pricing to show how political constraints inevitably make them far less effective than ideally they are, and they offer some useful recommendations on how we can design targeted policies and regulations, including industrial policies like those in the Inflation Reduction Act, to try to unlock progress over time.

My first book is Michael Tomasky's Middle Out. And this one is kind of on brand for me, in part because Michael and I are actually the hosts of a new podcast called How to Save a Country. So I'm recommending this because it's a long form reported look at everything that you and I have been talking about today. Michael really looks at all of the people and all of the activists who have been pushing Joe Biden for so long.

The second book is Olfmi O. Tw's Elite Capture, which is this amazing book. It started as an essay in Boston Review, and it really argues for a constructive politics by bringing an almost radically strong class lens to race politics. It was such a pleasure to read; it includes long detours into the philosophy of games and the history of the Black feminist Combahee River Collective.

The final book is not yet a book. It's just a draft, but it's so good that I wanted to recommend it to your listeners. It's Deepak Bhargava and Stephanie Luce's Chords of Change. The subtitle is Seven Strategies Underdogs Use to Win. It's a strategic history of different tactics for social change and a howto guide, arguing that we need multiple strategies to win the kind of victories we hope for.

I had one of those moments recently when I picked up the book Status by Cecilia Ridgway.

First book I would recommend is Envy Up, Scorn Down, How Status Divides Us by Susan Fiske.

There's a recent collection of people's perspectives on status, called The Psychology of Social Status by three people.