(((E. Glen Weyl))) stands with 🇺🇦 and 🇹🇼 Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Papa, Hub @ProfTortuga, Res. Lead @MSFTResearch https://t.co/A1nQFqUKzL, Founder @RadxChange, @PluralityInst (+Chair), Co-Author Radical Markets & @pluralitybook
Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson(((E. Glen Weyl))) stands with 🇺🇦 and 🇹🇼@jesseposner @balajis Just how non violent the Network State would be is nicely illustrated in Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash which inspired the Sovereign Individual, which in turn inspired it
Paperback, 2000
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Soziologie: Untersuchungen Über Die Formen Der Vergesellschaftung
Georg Simmel(((E. Glen Weyl))) stands with 🇺🇦 and 🇹🇼@marcvsam @pujaohlhaver @VitalikButerin @balajis @chancecollabs @owocki @ManuAlzuru @CityDAO @JonathanHillis @creatorcabins @laurashin @ljxie @gregory_landua on his blog is awesome). Georg Simmel's Soziologie (summarized here:https://t.co/LVmtU0PPd0 ) is amazing; application to tech here: https://t.co/pD8EyfgF9i. Dewey's "The Public and its Problems" is another crazily prescient book. The Dream Machine by Waldrop on JCR Licklider.
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These Truths: A History of the United States
Jill Lepore(((E. Glen Weyl))) stands with 🇺🇦 and 🇹🇼Having fun on a Jill Lenore spree…definitely one of the greatest historians today. These Truths (https://www.amazon.com/These-Truths-History-United-States/dp/0393635244) contained little I didn’t know but still is probably the highest quality political history of the US per page I have read.
Paperback, 2019
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Lost History of Liberalism: From Ancient Rome to the Twenty-First Century
Helena Rosenblatt(((E. Glen Weyl))) stands with 🇺🇦 and 🇹🇼Anyone interested in what “liberalism” “really means” historically should read @HelenaRosenblat’s excellent “The Lost History of Liberalism”: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691170701/the-lost-history-of-liberalism. Like any book of this kind, it’s far from exhaustive or without its own perspective (personally I wish there
Paperback, 2020
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Mutualism: Building the Next Economy from the Ground Up
Sara Horowitz(((E. Glen Weyl))) stands with 🇺🇦 and 🇹🇼I recommend @Sara_Horowitz's Mutualism (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/621946/mutualism-by-sara-horowitz/) to folks in the @RadxChange community. A deeply allied vision of pluralism.
Hardcover, 2021
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Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
James C. Scott(((E. Glen Weyl))) stands with 🇺🇦 and 🇹🇼And finally @GS_WhiteHouse. Trilemma between scalability, legibility and nuance. James Scott's Seeing Like a State is about the trade-off between scale and nuance. Machine learning has allowed much more scalable nuance, but by tossing legibility out the window.
Paperback, 2020
$21.95$10.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book