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
$18.95Member price:$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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
$45.00Member price:$42.75 + Free shipping5% off
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
$23.00Member price:$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
$18.99Member price:$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
$22.00Member price:$20.90 + Free shipping5% off
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
$18.99Member price:$18.99 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount 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
$32.00Member price:$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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