Paul Krugman Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Paul Krugman

It’s this wonderfully unromantic, anti-glory view of war. It’s all about, look, it’s really about — modern war is about production and logistics.... And it opened my eyes to thinking about how both about that history and about how to think about what’s happening in Ukraine now.

Paul Krugman

If you know Yale, there are these secret societies... the conceit of the book is that the secret societies are, in fact, evil places that carry out dark satanic rituals, and it was just so much fun to have my college re-represented as a place of dark and terrible secrets.

Paul Krugman

This "magisterial history" of the 20th century "definitely asks the right questions and teaches us a lot of crucial history along the way."

Paul Krugman

So, I've been working hard this week, and am about to quietly quit for at least the rest of tonight. Nerving myself up to watch "The Peripheral", hoping that the Westworld team does justice to William Gibson 1/ https://t.co/Z2Pw8YaB65

Paul Krugman

There are certain novels that can shape a teenage boy's life... My Book – the one that has stayed with me for four-and-a-half decades – is Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy... The trilogy really is a unique masterpiece; there has never been anything quite like it.

Paul Krugman

On the other hand, literature, at least what I've read, gives little indication that, in England at least, these felt like total war. The Napoleonic Wars were huge as a share of GDP; Jane Austen wrote Pride and Prejudice in 1813 3/

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Paul Krugman

Aha. There's a really good account in David Hackett Fischer's "Washington's Crossing" 1/ https://t.co/0E0ZCLf1hG