Complex Systems with Patrick McKenzie (patio11)
Patrick McKenzie
We live in a world where our civilization and daily lives depend upon institutions, infrastructure, and technological substrates that are _complicated_ but not _unknowable_. Join Patrick McKenzie (patio11) as he discusses how decisions, technology, culture, and incentives shape our finance, technology, government, and more, with the people who built (and build) those Complex Systems.
Top mentioned books
Here are the most frequently recommended books on the Complex Systems with Patrick McKenzie (patio11) podcast:
#1 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Lying for Money
Dan Davies
#2 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Seeing Like a State
How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
James C. Scott
#3 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Recoding America
How the Digital Revolution Reshaped Our Politics
Jennifer Palka
#4 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Land Is a Big Deal
Why Rent Is Too High, Wages Too Low, and What We Can Do about It
Noah Smith
James Cavin
Samuel Sibley
Scott Alexander
Lars Doucet
#5 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Alchemy of Us
Alyssa Ramirez
#6 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Going Infinite
The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
Michael Lewis
#7 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The crash and its aftermath
Barrie A. Wigmore
#8 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Brotopia
Emily Chang
#9 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Number Go Up
Zeke Faux
#10 Mentioned in 1 episodes
License to steal
Malcolm K. Sparrow
#11 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Rules for Radicals
A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals
Saul Alinsky
#12 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Administrative Burden
Policymaking by Other Means
Pamela Herd
Donald P. Moynihan
#13 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Blackett's War
Stephen Budiansky
#14 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Unaccountability Machine
Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions - and How The World Lost its Mind
Dan Davies
#15 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Information
A History, a Theory, a Flood
James Gleick
#16 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Structure and Strategy
Alfred Chandler
#17 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Progress and poverty
English Land Restoration League
#18 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Boom: Bubbles and the End of Stagnation
Tobias Huber
Byrne Hobart
#19 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The High Cost of Free Parking
Donald Shoup
#20 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The reckoning
David Halberstam
