Guy Berger Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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@conorsen Despite all the big issues of the day, their conflicts were intensely personal and ill-tempered. The Jeffersonian press basically accused George Washington of being a British spy. John Adams was pro- Aaron Burr, probably because Adams hated Alexander Hamilton

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I just made a work joke referencing Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose to @timjurka , so this is a very good day

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I really enjoyed reading The Big Short by Michael Lewis, and this was one of my favorite excerpts https://t.co/GB01jbnFPp

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@arpitrage I can’t find the exact passage in Linda Colley’s “Britons” but one hilarious “constitutional monarchy” moment was when a developer built houses for which the key feature was the ability to peep into the palace. King George III was appalled and demanded money from Parliament…

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@besttrousers I really loved the Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander when I was a kid.

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@jt_kerwin @stevehouf One of the light bulb moments in Kindleberger’s “Manias Panics and Crashes” is displacements as triggers for speculative mania; these displacements can include major technological innovations like generative AI https://t.co/MOSKbN1wnP

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Jeff Beck last week; David Crosby this week. :( I think Crosby’s best stuff was with the Byrds, especially on Younger Than Yesterday and The Notorious Byrd Brothers: https://t.co/ffkgy1Czql

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@wwwojtekk This is how I know you've never read Plato's Republic. In his theory of the forms, he explicitly cites the June 2021 US CPI (not clear whether just the headline value or also the detailed tables in the press release)

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@thejb_stan The Coming of the Third Reich by Richard Evans is excellent, albeit grim