Monetary economist known for NGDP-level targeting. Wrote TheMoneyIllusion until it closed in 2024 and now writes The Pursuit of Happiness.

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  Labyrinths

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  I was most influenced by the essays in the book, and I ended up being attracted to the same sort of writers as Borges, mostly Anglo-American writers of 1820-1920.

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Scottish crime writer, author of the Tony Hill and Karen Pirie novels; former journalist and broadcaster.

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  American by Day

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  American by Day is engagingly written. Miller isn't afraid to write characters who are opinionated. They don't hold their tongue about what they believe in, they let rip. People are angry, people are passionate. I love the unorthodoxy of it, I suppose.

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Financial journalist; chief financial correspondent at Axios and host of the Slate Money podcast, previously a blogger at Reuters and author of The Phoenix Economy.

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  Mass shootings are a relatively small share of American gun deaths compared to other causes.

  America

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  Mass shootings are a relatively small phenomenon even by the standard of American gun deaths.

  Nota bene: Mass shootingsfelix.substack.com

Cognitive scientist and designer; author of The Design of Everyday Things; co-founder of Nielsen Norman Group; former vice president at Apple; founding director of the Design Lab at UC San Diego.

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  What gets called human error is design error: technology-centred design makes people do what machines are good at and then blames them.

  America

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  Human error is blamed for over 90 percent of industrial and automobile accidents. It is the leading cause of aviation accidents, and medical error is reported to be the third-largest cause of death in the entire United States. Horrifying? Yes, but why do we label it “human error”? It is design error.

  People-Centered (Not Tech-Driven) Designjnd.org

British military historian and former army officer; author of Stalingrad, Berlin: The Downfall 1945, D-Day and The Second World War.

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  Life and Fate

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  These were the notebooks that we worked on in Moscow and one realised that here was most of the raw material for Life and Fate which I think is probably the most important work of fiction about World War II.

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Co-founder, chairman and chief investment officer of Ritholtz Wealth Management. Hosts the Masters in Business podcast for Bloomberg and wrote How NOT to Invest.

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  The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

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  Peter Frankopan, The Silk Roads: A New History of the World: The trade routes which connected the East and the West also led to the spread of ideas, cultures and religions. In the midst of our budding trade war, perhaps some history on trade between China and the world might shed some light on current affairs.

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  The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West

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  David McCullough, The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West: Ever since I read The Wright Brothers” (on an earlier summer reading list of ours — and it was fantastic) I have been a fan of the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough writes about. This tale of how the American Northwest Territory was settled looks intriguing.

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  Rockonomics: A Backstage Tour of What the Music Industry Can Teach Us about Economics and Life

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  Alan B. Krueger, Rockonomics: A Backstage Tour of What the Music Industry Can Teach Us about Economics and Life: From the economist who revealed the secrets of the minimum wage comes this look at the economics of the music industry. Its disruptions by technology to economics of songwriting and concert tours, the music industry offers important financial lessons. Kreuger, an economic rock star himself (he was former chairman of the president’s Council of Economic Advisers) left us far too soon.

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Co-founder of Microsoft and of the Gates Foundation. Writes Gates Notes on global health, energy and climate, and on whatever they have been reading.

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  A Gentleman in Moscow

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  A Gentleman in Moscow is an amazing story because it manages to be a little bit of everything.

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Wine writer and Master of Wine; Financial Times wine columnist, editor of The Oxford Companion to Wine and co-author of The World Atlas of Wine.

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  Thirsty Dragon: China's Lust for Bordeaux and the Threat to the World's Best Wines

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  This a journalistic book, a very sound bit of journalism by Suzanne Mustacich. She is based in Bordeaux, but she clearly travelled to China an awful lot and unravelled a most amusing commercial battle that went on in the early years of this decade between the Bordeaux chateau owners and merchants on the one side and Chinese business people on the other.

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Programmer; builds Mac and iOS apps, wrote WatermelonDB, and writes about tools, focus and software craft.

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  Age of Ambition

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  If you don’t really understand or know a lot about China today, this is one perspective. Good book.

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Co-founder of Netscape and of the venture firm Andreessen Horowitz. Argues at length for building things, mostly in short form.

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  Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination

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  So the author, Neal Gabler, who has written the best biography on Walt Disney. And it’s a phenomenal book.

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Cook and food writer specialising in Chinese cuisine; the first Westerner to train at the Sichuan Institute of Higher Cuisine, and author of Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper and Invitation to a Banquet.

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  Food in Chinese Culture

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  It was probably the first book in English to bring serious academic scrutiny to Chinese food culture, and to use the scholarly techniques applied to other subjects to food, offering the views of different experts on different periods of Chinese history.

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  Classic Food of China

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  Classic Food of China was really her great work, though. I think it was the last book she produced before she died, some years ago. It's one of the few really well-researched historical and cultural Chinese cookery books.

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  China to Chinatown

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  He has drawn together all kinds of different sources that would be a lot of work to find on your own.

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Clinical psychologist and clinical professor of psychiatry at UCSF. His 2010 meta-analysis established psychodynamic therapy as an evidence-based treatment; he has argued ever since that "evidence-based therapy" is used as a marketing term.

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  The APA's trauma treatment guidelines should be ignored, because they rest only on trials of therapies too brief to have worked.

  AmericaPsychotherapyTrauma

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  The American Psychological Association (APA) just issued guidelines for treating trauma. Patients and therapists would be wise to ignore them.

  Selling Bad Therapy to Trauma Victimspsychologytoday.com

British historian, Professor of Global History at the University of Oxford; author of The Silk Roads and The Earth Transformed.

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  The Alexiad

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  There are several jewels of medieval Greek literature but Anna Komnene's is probably the brightest. She was the daughter of one of the emperors—she was porphyrogenita—and it is the first narrative history written by a woman in any European language. It's a text that is incredibly florid, very beautiful, and extremely interesting.

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  The Cherry Orchard

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  So, as a kind of period piece that captures Russia in the late 19th, early 20th century, it's the most poignant text I've ever read.

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Physician and author on addiction, stress and childhood development. Wrote In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts and The Myth of Normal, and developed the Compassionate Inquiry approach taught to therapists.

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  Facing Addiction in America: The Surgeon General’s Report on Alcohol, Drugs, and Health

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  Facing Addiction in America is also the first governmental attempt to ground policy not in prejudice but in research, not in conjecture but in science. It collates an impressive body of evidence to illuminate the pathological processes and impacts of substance addiction in the human brain and body, and suggests evidence-based practices for treatment and prevention.

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Civil engineer and land use planner, founder and president of Strong Towns, author of Escaping the Housing Trap. Argues that the American pattern of development since the Second World War does not generate enough wealth to maintain the infrastructure it obliges cities to keep.

From one piece The Real Reason Your City Has No Money 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Nearly every American city is functionally insolvent, because replacing the infrastructure it has built would cost more than its entire private tax base is worth.

  America

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  It's a predicament that nearly every American city, with very few exceptions, finds itself in.

  The Real Reason Your City Has No Moneystrongtowns.org

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  American cities built roughly two dollars of public infrastructure for every dollar of private investment, and that ratio is what bankrupts them.

  America

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  This thinking is how you end up with two dollars of public infrastructure for every one dollar of private investment.

  The Real Reason Your City Has No Moneystrongtowns.org

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  America's accumulated road, pipe and pavement is a bad investment, and no federal spending programme can make it a good one.

  America

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  All this infrastructure is a bad investment. America needs a different model of growth and development.

  The Real Reason Your City Has No Moneystrongtowns.org

Co-founder of Microsoft and of the Gates Foundation. Writes Gates Notes on global health, energy and climate, and on whatever they have been reading.

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  The Myth of the Strong Leader

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  But to read Archie Brown’s fascinating book, The Myth of the Strong Leader, is to see an illustration that leaders like Suárez, who served as prime minister of Spain from 1976 to 1981, possess leadership styles and capacities that are incredibly effective, and depressingly rare.

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