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Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
The monopoly-for-loan idea certainly was ingenious.
Frank Partnoy • The Match King: Ivar Kreuger, The Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals
While the learned debate, rational actors in the market practice a de facto gold standard.
George Gilder • Life After Google
completely portable,
Richard H. Thaler • Nudge: The Final Edition
At the Freedom School, Charles became particularly enamored of the work of two laissez-faire economists, the Austrian theorist Ludwig von Mises and his star pupil, Friedrich Hayek, an Austrian exile, who visited the Freedom School. Hayek’s book The Road to Serfdom had become an improbable best seller in 1944, after Reader’s Digest published a conde
... See moreJane Mayer • Dark Money
Overspecialization can lead to collective tragedy even when every individual separately takes the most reasonable course of action.
David Epstein • Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
Little transfer of information; no interactive relationship with the units around it.
Phyllis Kirk JD • Quantum Lite Simplified
These days, most of our arguments about justice are about how to distribute the fruits of prosperity, or the burdens of hard times, and how to define the basic rights of citizens. In these domains, considerations of welfare and freedom predominate. But arguments about the rights and wrongs of economic arrangements often lead us back to Aristotle’s
... See moreMichael J. Sandel • Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
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