Jeff Holmes: belief

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…I must have read that on Kindle if I said 13 percent. There you go. We’ve got Tooze and Kotkin on there. Tooze was on, I think, in 2020. Other books that you mentioned — there are probably maybe 30 books listed here, but we have Piketty. The Second Machine Age. Tim Harford had a book. Megan McArdle’s The Up Side of Down. Lane Kenworthy on social democracy. These are all people that are in your network, you say. The Fourth Revolution by John Micklethwait. Daniel Drezner, The System Worked. Frank Buckley, why the Canadian system of government is better. Russ Roberts, How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life, so there’s another CWT connection. I’m not sure the Frank Buckley book has held up well. Chrystia Freeland just resigned as we’re recording, and Trudeau is very unpopular, and Canada is still in a recession. Now, is that due to their system of government? You can debate. I suspect Frank himself might revisit that claim.…

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