Business/Economics

Books & Stuff

• The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West (Alexander Karp; Palantir; More Alex Karp)

• The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World  Podcasts: #1 #2 #3

• Changing World Order Video by Ray Dalio. Principles: Life and Work (Video);  Will Civilization Collapse?

• Making Sense of Chaos: A Better Economics for a Better World by J. Doyne Farmer (Santa Fe Institute)

• Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists; Luigi Zingales Videos: Capitalism and Crony Capitalism; Preventing Economists' Capture

• Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty; Daron Acemoglu on Why Nations Fail  

• The Lords of Strategy: The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World

• Visual Capitalist

• Best Things First by Bjorn Lomborg 

• Grow the Pie: How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit & May Contain Lies by Alex Edmans

• When Genius Failed by Roger Lowenstein; Liars Poker by Michael Lewis  (also Moneyball, The Big Short, a lot more )

• Hoover Institution: Main Webpage;  Human Prosperity Project on Socialism and Free-Market Capitalism

• Marginal Revolution University

• The Chickenshit Club ; Why They Do It: Inside the Mind of the White-Collar Criminal

• Reading list: Stakeholder capitalism, ESG reporting & investing (sessions 5,6 & 7)

• The Social Dilemma

Economic Thinkers

• Lyn Alden: About; Book: Broken Money; Videos: How Money & Banking Work (& why they're broken today); The true cost of the $ empire ; Robert Breedlove's Alden Series

• Michael Saylor: About; Keynote Speech 2025; Masterclass Video Series (Atlas Society); The Michael Saylor Series (Robert Breedlove podcast)

• Thomas Sowell: About; Books; Basic Economics; More “Social Justice Fallacies”; Sowell Gems;  Intellectuals and Society

• Austrian School of Economics:

  • Ludwig Von Mises: Video Biography; Socialism Dies When Reason Prevails; The Mises Institute; About Mises; About Austrian School Economics; Mises Books

  • Friedrich Hayek: About; The Use of Knowledge in Society; The Road to Serfdom; The Constitution of Liberty; Econ Talk on Hayek

• Milton Friedman: Famous PBS Series: Free to Choose; Testing Milton Friedman; Free To Choose Network; Milton Friedman 50 Years Later; Books: Free to Choose & Capitalism and Freedom; Capitalism and Freedom in the 21st Century Podcast

• Ayn Rand:  Atlas Shrugged/The Fountainhead (Video book trailers: Atlas & Fountainhead); Mike Wallace Interview; What is Capitalism?; Capitalism vs. Communism;  Ayn Rand and the Goddess of the Market

  • Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand, Economics, Capitalism, Freedom on the Lex Fridman Podcast

• Hernando De Soto: The Mystery Of Capital; Video series: The Power of the Poor; Globalization at the Crossroads