Adam Davidson @adamdavidson@journa.host Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Adam Davidson @adamdavidson@journa.host

One of the best books I've read in years is the bio of Marconi, by Marc Raboy: World-changing inventor/businessman/celebrity who ends up going full Mussolini. An amazing way to re-understand the 20th century and now. https://t.co/KvDRSdAY5F

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Must read of the week: @davidenrich's new book, Servants of the Damed This week, especially, we see how the legal system is not some abstraction. It IS how power works in America, often in its ugliest forms. This book dissects how it works. amazing!

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Adam Davidson @adamdavidson@journa.host

Interesting: Prince Harry's actions (whatever they were): unacceptable. Out of the line of succession. King Edward VIII marrying a divorcee: Unacceptable. Out of the line of succession. Prince Andrew: active participant in massive sex abuse ring?

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Remember: When Michael Cohen set up the secret shell company to pay off Stormy Daniels, he said: I talked to Allen W. and he told me how he normally does it. Cohen screwed it up, so he got caught. Allen is, clearly, better at this. https://t.co/V7ciIq1C26

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Re-reading Douglass North's wonderful book, "Understanding the Process of Economic Change," for which (in part) he won the Nobel Prize. Seems apropos. https://t.co/bz1bXSBDt8

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@thomaschattwill @kmele @rlryanlove I'd say next on that list would be Joseph Schumpeter's Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy. Not as easy/fun to read as Hayek. So, a solid skim will work.

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Adam Davidson @adamdavidson@journa.host

That is the only thing Adam Smith was interested in "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations." Smith's primary concern was inequality. And how to address inequality in a world filled with selfish people and bad rich folks. https://t.co/eDLO1MSEVZ

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I can’t wait to read this book. I used to call myself an Adam Smith capitalist, but realized few know what that means and make lots of wrong assumptions. https://t.co/xKUntEDjTY

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Reading @ruthbenghiat's amazing book, Strongmen, you realize: In so many ways, Trump is dime a dozen for 20th/21st century autocrats. His one clear distinction from others: he is so fucking lazy and incompetent. Where is his media empire? Where is his youth brigade?

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Adam Davidson @adamdavidson@journa.host

The writing is elegant and the story so weird and compelling — I lost some sleep unable to put this book down — that the reader may be the only witness to this spectacle who never feels manipulated.

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