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13 December 2020

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Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism

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It's a really important book. It pulls together the work that they've been doing for a number of years now, looking at the fact that, for the first time, life expectancy in the US is falling, and falling very unequally.

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Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers

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This is a fantastic biography. Frank Ramsey was an extraordinary character, evidently brilliant from an early age. He made path-breaking advances in mathematics, philosophy and economics.

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If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future

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Jill Lepore is a brilliant writer. It's a dream to read.

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Boom and Bust: A Global History of Financial Bubbles

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It's a very readable and systematic analysis of what drives booms and busts in financial markets. There are loads of books about financial bubbles and related issues, but what I like about this one is the way they have developed a framework for thinking about any bubble anywhere, anytime.

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Rentier Capitalism: Who Owns the Economy, and Who Pays for It?

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This is really about the way that, in lots of different areas of the economy, there is a concentration of power by people who have bought particular kinds of assets, and they're extracting monopoly rents—in effect—through that ownership. It covers land, housing, private equity, and infrastructure ownership.

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