A look back at the bestselling book franchise that taught people to “think like economists,” by which it meant “think cynically and amorally.”
The podcast If Books Could Kill has a pretty good breakdown of all the bullshit in this book too
Highly recommend that podcast in general. The Jonathon Haight takedown prob my favorite
Dude this looks amazing, thanks for the recommendation!
Glad you liked it, it has offered me many hoursodf fun listening :) If you like Michael Hobbs, one of the two presenters, he has another podcast too, Maintenance Phase. It’s very different thematically though, it’s about nutrition and our bad understanding of how our bodies work when it comes to weight. Lots of interesting myth busting there too.
That sounds good too! Thanks
I really liked Freakonomics and Superfreakonomics when I was younger. Now I look back and cringe it. Climate geoengineering? Really? Cringe.
It’s funny to me that hard economic thinking really brought me around to being a leftist at some point. I really liked the book The Darwin Economy by Robert H Frank, because it really just pokes fun at right-libertarians and the idea of unregulated markets being whats best for everyone.