Summer Reading List!

Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer

Civic Ventures

Business, Government, News, Politics

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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It’s Nick and Goldy’s summer reading list! We want to know what you’re reading, too. Let us know on Instagram: @pitchforkeconomics. 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 at your library. Every book mentioned in this episode: The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous by Joseph Henrich Escape from Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity by Walter Scheidel The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good? by Michael J. Sandel Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Merit by Robert H. Frank The Black Swan and Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb Democracy, Race, and Justice: The Speeches and Writings of Sadie T. M. Alexander by Nina Banks Why Buddhism is True by Robert Wright Caste by Isabel Wilkerson His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope by Jon Meacham The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee 1491 by Charles C. Mann Nature’s God: The Heretical Origins of the American Republic by Matthew Stewart The Second World War by Winston Churchill Lafayette in the Somewhat United States by Sarah Vowell Debt by David Graeber Website: http://pitchforkeconomics.com/ Twitter: @PitchforkEcon Instagram: @pitchforkeconomics Nick’s twitter: @NickHanauer

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0:00.0	So Nick, one of the benefits of doing this podcast is we get to interview a lot of authors
0:13.2	on the show.
0:14.2	And that means we read a lot of books.
0:17.3	We do indeed.
0:18.5	We do indeed.
0:19.5	Which also is a great benefit of doing this.
0:22.1	It is.
0:23.1	And just in general, we read a lot of books to try to keep up with what's going on and new
0:28.1	perspectives and so on and so forth.
0:30.8	And so today we're going to share a little bit of that.
0:32.9	Yes.
0:33.9	Some of our favorite books that we've read over the past year or so, our summer reading
0:38.2	list, which if you listened to this podcast, you know, is not going to necessarily be a
0:45.6	light reading list, but still enjoyable nonetheless.
0:49.6	And listeners, don't worry about writing all this down.
0:52.7	All these book titles and author names.
0:55.0	We will have all the content in the show notes.
0:57.7	We'll also be posting all of these books in our Instagram at pitchfork economics.
1:02.9	And you can talk to us there.
1:05.0	We want to know what's on your summer reading list.
1:07.0	So please leave us a comment.
1:08.4	Why don't we start with you, Nick?
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