Business/Economics

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• Books & Stuff

  • The Last Economy: A Guide to the Age of Intelligent Economics by Emad Mostaque (A map for how to build a better society)

  • The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West 

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

  • Changing World Order Video by Ray Dalio.  Will Civilization Collapse?

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

  • Broken Money by Lynn Alden

  • 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 

  • The Chickenshit Club 

• Economic Blogs/Podcasts

  • Marginal Revolution with Tyler Cowan. Eclectic links to cool, entertaining, deep stuff 

  • The Grumpy Economist with John Cochrane  Articulate and insightful views of a hardcore, Chicago-school economist

  • Musings on Markets with Aswath Damodaran  Analyses of capital markets by a master of valuation

  • EconTalk with Russ Roberts. Russ is a very skilled interviewer.  A voice of reason.

  • Acquired Podcast  Long form histories, stories and strategies of great companies (e.g., LVMH; Hermès; Rolex)

  • Capitalisn't with Luigi Zingales and Bethany McLean. Sophisticated economic discussions hosted by the University of Chicago

  • Lena Petrova Insightful analysis at the intersection of finance, economics and geopolitics.  She is really good.

  • Eurodollar University with Jeff Snider. High intensity analysis of the dark side of macro issues and monetary systems

• Geopolitics & Political Economy Podcasts (High-level, intelligent conversations worth hearing) 

  • Mario Nawfal (about Mario)

  • Daniel Davis / Deep Dive (recipient of the 2012 Ridenhour Prize for Truth-Telling)

  • Glenn Diesen

  • The Duran  (see also the Alexander Mercouris solo podcast)

  • Dialogue Works

• Eclectic Economic Thinkers

  • Lyn Alden: About; Book: Broken Money; Videos: Nothing Stops This Train;  How Money & Banking Work 

  • Michael Saylor: About; Keynote Speech 2025; 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; The Power of Choice: The Life and Ideas of Milton Friedman; Milton Friedman 50 Years Later; Books: Free to Choose & Capitalism and Freedom

  • 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