It's that time of year when we want to lie on a beach and lose ourselves in a good book. Today on the show, three summer reading recs that got our hosts thinking about economics. Remember, anything read on the beach is, in fact, a "beach read."
Books recommended in this episode:
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Exit West by Mohsin Hamid (
B&N,
Bookshop)
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Everything Is Predictable: How Bayesian Statistics Explain Our World by Tom Chivers (
B&N,
Bookshop)
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Range: Why Generalist Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein (
B&N,
Bookshop)
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