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Ah, got a love late summer on the beach, stretching out underneath an umbrella, headphones headphones in my favorite books in a cute

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i brought my ice cold beverage my little umbrella, and I also brought a book to read.

What did you guys bring for Beach Reeds?

Today on the show, our summer reading racks.

We'll talk about some books we've loved reading this summer.

We've got the secret, intriguing lives of government workers, really?

Ooh, we've got a get-rich-quick scheme gone very wrong.

And how algorithms are changing the way we talk.

That's all after the break.

Okay, economic beach reads. Who is up first?

My econ Beach Read is called Who Is Government? It's an essay collection curated by Michael Lewis.

You might remember him from The Big Short. And I know this is a beach read because I have

test read this on several beaches. Okay, jet-setter. So what is this book about?

The whole premise of this book is that there are thousands of unsung heroes in the government.

They're doing amazing things, but because of bureaucracies being bureaucracies, we rarely hear those stories.

Oh, so what were some of your favorites?

One example is the mine safety official Christopher Mark at the Department of Labor.

Several decades ago, nearly 100 coal miners would die every year because of roof falls.

And this was seen as an unfortunate reality, really the cost of doing business.

But then in the late 1980s, Chris came along.

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