Charles Kenny Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Senior Fellow, CGD, author: Life, Liberty & Utility; Getting Better; The Upside of Down; & The Plague Cycle. Tweets are personal opinions.
River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Roads
Cat JarmanCharles KennyFrom @CatJarman ‘s excellent River Kings (history of the Vikings). Interesting how often through history ‘throwing newborns into sea/pit/other’ is the go-to indicator of the despicable other. https://t.co/YZACAokZ2n
Paperback, 2023
$18.95$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Enduring Struggle: The History of the U.S. Agency for International Development and America's Uneasy Transformation of the World
John NorrisCharles KennyPodcast hosted (excellently) by @s_e_rose with John Norris on his great new book The Enduring Struggle -a history of USAID. Good present! https://t.co/wxkWRlaXtV
Hardcover, 2021
$45.00$22.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Poverty
Will ReasonCharles KennySmall irony that the approach the World Bank is taking to measure poverty ensures (with some good reason) the dream will never come true. https://t.co/m5QONpv2W7
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Bolivar: American Liberator
Marie AranaCharles KennyMarie Arana’s biography of Bolivar, discussing regulations in late-colonial Spanish America. Also: no colonial printing presses, letters require government approval to send, a Spanish equivalent of the Jones Act in force… https://t.co/rpKIhOXgBP
Paperback, 2014
$23.00$11.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Streets of Gold: America's Untold Story of Immigrant Success
Ran AbramitzkyCharles KennyGreat @Hofrench article on the benefits of immigration to sending and receiving countries with discussion of @m_clem's work and @leah_boustan 's new blockbuster *Streets of Gold* https://t.co/HvlROM7b9L
Paperback, 2023
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Making of Oliver Cromwell
Ronald HuttonCharles KennyAmong book purchases made by the UK House of Commons library at the request of MPs: "The Making of Oliver Cromwell" "Thomas Cromwell: a life" Someone planning something? https://t.co/ugb9QPKE51
Paperback, 2022
$22.00$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Progress Without People: In Defense of Luddism
David F. NobleCharles KennyFrom reviews, seems like @DrDaronAcemoglu and @baselinescene's Power and Progress might share some ground with David Noble's great, bracing polemic "Progress Without People: In Defense of Luddism" written at the start of the Internet age. https://t.co/ZTgf9xfBBk
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Our Solar System: Earth: Our Home Planet
World BookCharles Kenny*Please* if you are a “planet B” believer, read this book, combined with @_HannahRitchie ‘s forthcoming “Not the End of the World.” Space is really horrible, Earth is incredible and utterly fixable, but needs work to be even better. https://t.co/ziXf4Wc9uT
Paperback, 2020
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
Kelly WeinersmithCharles KennyA City on Mars by @FuSchmu and @ZachWeiner now on preorder! Had the delight to read a draft. It is really funny of course, but also absolutely fascinating and makes quite the compelling argument. I'm staying put. https://t.co/Y40UmwLFbz
Hardcover, 2023
$32.00$16.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
World Development Report: Governance and the Law
World Bank GroupCharles Kenny@WorldBank I'm in favor of private hospitals in Africa: they provide jobs & quality health care. But I'm not sure subsidizing places that charge $125 for a checkup using bespoke, opaque & non-competitive approaches is best use World Bank IDA grants, either. https://t.co/Q2nY61MIRy
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