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A new mini series about magazines and media! (opens the original)
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As mentioned in my last newsletter, I’m breaking from form a bit, and talking about a few books I’ve read recently about big glossy magazines and culture writing. That’s right: I’m talking about Graydon Carter’s When the Going Was Good this week, and then I’ll spend a newsletter or two on Michael Grynbaum’s Empire of the Elite: Inside Condé Nast, the Media Dynasty that Reshaped America. I have a few more ideas for pieces related to other famous cultural institutions that famously employ writers,
Wrapping up Rogoff's Our Dollar, Your Problem (opens the original)
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As mentioned in my last newsletter, there’s a lot happening in Kenneth Rogoff’s OurDollar, Your Problem, and I wanted to wrap that up before doing something a little different with my next few newsletters (more on which below). So this follow up will talk about a few of the other big parts of Our Dollar, Your Problem that I think are noteworthy, and some final thoughts about the book.One aspect of Our Dollar, Your Problem that I appreciate was Rogoff’s treatment ofcryptocurrency, n
Our Dollar, Your Problem: Ideas that have stuck with me (opens the original)
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Two weeks ago, I wrote a book review of Kenneth Rogoff’s Our Dollar, Your Problem that was more about the overall effect of the book and its vibes than its substance. This week I want to write about some of the ideas in it that have stuck with me since I read the book about a month ago – there are quite a few! As I mentioned in the last newsletter, there was much that I found compelling, even if I disagreed with some of it, so this is a deeper dive into the substance of the text. Also, it’s clea
The Odd Experience of Reading "Our Dollar, Your Problem", by Kenneth Rogoff (opens the original)
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Welcome back – I took an inadvertent hiatus from writing this newsletter while I was finishing an academic paper revision and then a vacation, but now I’m back. For the next few newsletters, I’ll be writing a series of reflections on books I’ve recently read. These include Kenneth Rogoff’s Our Dollar, Your Problem, Elizabeth Popp Berman’s Thinking Like an Economist, Mariana Mazzucatto’s Mission Economics, and Jennifer Burns’s biography of Milton Fri
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