Matt Zwolinski Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Matt Zwolinski

Earlier, I read @RichardvReeves’s Of Boys and Men. I liked it so much that I went back and read his previous book, Dream Hoarders. And it’s fantastic. Regardless of your place on the political spectrum, you’ll find lots to learn from and engage with here. https://t.co/A3oXo0L0j1

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Introduce yourself with 7 books: 1. Smith, Theory of Moral Sentiments 2. Hume, Treatise of Human Nature 3. Mill, On Liberty 4. Mises, Liberalism 5. Oakeshott, Rationalism in Politics and Other Essays 6. Hayek, The Constitution of Liberty 7. Schmidtz, Elements of Justice

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Jennifer Burns, author of Ayn Rand: Goddess of the Market, has a new book coming out in November on Milton Friedman. I’m really excited to read it. https://t.co/GeB5szNE8u

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Jennifer Burns, author of Ayn Rand: Goddess of the Market, has a new book coming out in November on Milton Friedman. I’m really excited to read it. https://t.co/GeB5szNE8u

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I’m not a numbers guy, but this way of presenting the data (from Hans Rosling’s Factfulness) seems fishy to me. Is there any legitimate reason for compressing just one portion of the X-axis? Or is this just a sneaky way of making a distribution look more normal than it is? https://t.co/8elVIeYLIj

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@David_Boaz @routledgebooks But we ended up taking the approach of a kind of “Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy” of libertarianism, reviewing the main ideas and arguments rather than advancing a particular thesis. The Handbook was more a collection of standard argumentative essays on libertarian themes.

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In 1851, Herbert Spencer published Social Statics, in which he defended the “Law of Equal Freedom” as the first principle of libertarian theory - thereby combining a commitment to both equality and liberty. Today is his birthday! Read more about Spencer in _The Individualists_

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Rent seeking in immigration law. From Chandran Kukathas’s excellent _Immigration and Freedom_. https://t.co/CIqYFXZA9G

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@rlevatter @AnneCHeller @AynRandInst I’m pretty confident it’s real. There’s an essay on “Anthem and the Individualist Manifesto” in this volume, edited by Robert Mayhew, and written by Jeff Britting, who is an archivist at the Ayn Rand Institute. https://t.co/Es3ie1U1Mi

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Just finished reading Kahneman, Simony and Sunstein’s book: Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment. Lots of interesting stuff in there. But the most significant effect on a personal level is that I’m now much more open to the use of grading rubrics than I was previously. Ugh.