2024 Summer Reading List

Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer

Civic Ventures

Business, Government, News, Politics

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

It’s Paul and Goldy’s summer reading list! In this week’s special episode, Civic Ventures Senior Fellow David “Goldy” Goldstein and Civic Ventures Writer Paul Constant recommend some of the hottest new economic and political books for your beach reading pleasure. We want to know what you’re reading, too. Leave us a comment on Instagram, Twitter, Threads or YouTube! Remember to shop local and small when you can, or order from IndieBound or Bookshop.org—both of which support independent bookstores! All of these books are also likely available through your local library. Every book mentioned in this episode: In This Economy?: How Money & Markets Really Work - Kyla Scanlon End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration - Peter Turchin The Chile Project: The Story of the Chicago Boys and the Downfall of Neoliberalism - Sebastian Edwards Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary - Timothy Snyder Growth: A History and a Reckoning - Daniel Susskind Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline - Darrell Bricker & John Ibbitson A Fabulous Failure: The Clinton Presidency and the Transformation of American Capitalism - Nelson Lichtenstein & Judith Stein The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York - Robert A. Caro The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society - Joseph E. Stiglitz Work, Retire, Repeat: The Uncertainty of Retirement in the New Economy - Teresa Ghilarducci New Nigeria County - Clare Brown Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens - David Mitchell Website: http://pitchforkeconomics.com Twitter: @PitchforkEcon, @NickHanauer, @civicaction Instagram: @pitchforkeconomics Threads: pitchforkeconomics YouTube: @pitchforkeconomics Substack: The Pitch

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0:00.0	I'm David Goldstein Senior Fellow at Civic Ventures.
0:13.0	I'm Paul Constant and I'm a writer at Civic Ventures.
0:17.0	So, you know, like the Swallows returning to Capistrano.
0:22.0	Next week I'm heading back to the Jersey shore for my
0:25.6	annual trip to the beach with my family and if I was going to have a physical book in my hand on the beach, since you are our resident
0:36.5	books expert, I thought maybe you could kick off this summer reading list episode by recommending a book for me.
0:45.0	Sure, sure, and maybe you can return the favor sometime.
0:47.7	If I've never been to the Jersey Shore,
0:49.4	but if you could give me some survival tips,
0:51.0	that would be really great. The Jersey Shore is the best sure ever.
0:55.0	Really? It is. It's the best beaches. It's the best TV show.
0:59.2	I've never watched the TV show. Me either.
1:03.0	Yeah, so last year we did a recommended summer reading episode and I thought it would be fun to come back and do one of those this time.
1:12.0	The first book that I have to recommend, Goldie, maybe is not the best for you.
1:17.0	It is one that I would recommend to give to somebody who is younger maybe and doesn't know as much about economics. I think it would be a good
1:25.9	starter read and I especially love the title. It's called In This Economy, which is just a great title.
1:32.4	I'm sad that I didn't think of it first in this
1:35.0	economy how money and markets really work and it's the author is Kyla Scanlon and she is a young economics explainer. I actually first came across her on Tik-Toc.
1:48.0	And it's that that's that thing that the Chinese are using to destroy our youth's minds?
1:53.6	Yeah, it's how they're spying on us through my phone.
1:57.1	It's a really straightforward sort of baseline explainer of how the economy works.
2:02.4	And a lot of it is adapted from her Tiktocks
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