JW Mason Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

JW Mason

I don't know that I would recommend him today, but in my 20s I was a big admirer of Martin Amis and read all of his novels from Success through Night Train. A review of the latter was one of my first published articles. https://t.co/LZ0g3wnPHX

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Was just rereading The People's Republic of Walmart by @Leigh_Phillips and @michalrozworski. Such a great book!

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@izakaminska @IsabellaMWeber @MegJacobs100 :-) I remember reading about this in M. I. Finley's The Ancient Economy. Unfortunately, I don't remember what his judgement on it was.

JW Mason

For the past few months I've been listening to Mike Wallace's Gotham as I cooked dinner and did other household tasks. Kept thinking I ought to be live-tweeting. I'm now in chapter 47, but in the spirit of best time to plant a tree, think I'll begin.

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Past students in the John Jay economics MA program include @KateAronoff, author of A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal; journalist @aidachavez; @lrmelodia, Deputy Director, Center NYC Affairs; @PEWilliams_ , Director, Center for Public Enterprise. It's quite a crew!