Ezra Klein Archive: Books
How penicillin fooled us
Perhaps it's the mark of a good book that after you read it, you begin seeing evidence for its thesis in lots of different areas. Since reading Tyler Cowen's "The Great Stagnation," I've been seeing a lot of support for...
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| February 15, 2011; 10:39 AM ET |
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I'd read it
That's from the Malcolm Gladwell book generator....
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Ezra Klein
| February 8, 2011; 10:23 AM ET |
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Can 'The Box' get smaller?
I spent some of my weekend reading Marc Levinson's "The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger." The book is trying to answer the question of how we got to a world where,...
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| February 7, 2011; 9:19 AM ET |
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'The Great Stagnation,' Part II
Karl Smith disagrees with Tyler Cowen. The problem isn't with innovation, he says. It's with us: To the extent we are throwing money at unproductive uses, is this a supply problem as Tyler posits or a demand problem, as I...
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| January 31, 2011; 11:00 AM ET |
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'The Great Stagnation'
Book reviews tend to force the author to combine two questions that don't go very well together. The first is, "Should you read this book?" The second is, "What do I think about the thesis of this book?" So in...
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| January 31, 2011; 9:02 AM ET |
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'Paper Doll Orgy'
It's been a heavy few days around here, but one of the bright spots was walking to the mailroom and finding a copy of Ted McCagg's “Paper Doll Orgy” waiting for me. McCagg is a brilliant, absurdist cartoonist whose...
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| January 12, 2011; 3:59 PM ET |
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