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https://www.amazon.com/More-Less-Surprising-Learned-Resources-ebook/dp/B07P5GPMTY/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1587250590&sr=8-1 … by
@amcafee on how modern technological economies can build more outputs with less inputs, and why we need all economies to be modern and technological.Show this thread -
https://www.amazon.com/Power-Productivity-Wealth-Poverty-Stability-ebook-dp-B003SE6BWQ/dp/B003SE6BWQ/ref=mt_kindle?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1587250767 … by William Lewis on how technology-driven productivity growth improves human welfare and creates more jobs and higher wages.
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https://www.amazon.com/Recapturing-Spirit-Enterprise-George-Gilder/dp/1558152016/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=george+gilder+spirit+of+enterprise&qid=1587250655&sr=8-2 … by George Gilder
@ScandalOfMoney on how economic systems that encourage aggressive entrepreneurship build the most for the benefit of the most.Show this thread -
https://www.amazon.com/Tycoons-Carnegie-Rockefeller-Invented-Supereconomy-ebook/dp/B003JH86HU/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1587250873&sr=1-2 … by Charles Morris on how four great builders of the 19th century built the world we live in today.
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https://www.amazon.com/Edison-Edmund-Morris-ebook/dp/B07NCMDWZD/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=edison&qid=1587250911&sr=8-2 … by Edmund Morris on perhaps the greatest American builder of all, the builder who brought electricity to us all, Thomas Edison.
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https://www.amazon.com/Triumph-City-Greatest-Invention-Healthier-ebook-dp-B0049U4HTW/dp/B0049U4HTW/ref=mt_kindle?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid= … by Edward Glaeser
@triumphofcity on the central role cities play in our world and why it's so important for us to build them -- more, bigger, better.Show this thread -
https://www.amazon.com/Golden-Gates-Fighting-Housing-America-ebook/dp/B07SCTS46T/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=yimby&qid=1587250939&s=books&sr=1-2 … by
@ConorDougherty on why we can't build in great American cities like San Francisco today and what we need to do about it.Show this thread -
And finally https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A30880.0001.001?rgn=main;view=fulltext … “An Apology For The Builder” by Nicholas Barbon, written in 1685. HT
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On board with most things except being pro metal and glass skyscraper infested cities.
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Another essay to add to the Mary Meeker's technological optimism versus Evgeny Morozov's critique of tech solutionism. I covered both in my daily on
#COVID for@cronycle yesterdayhttps://cronyclecovid19.substack.com/p/-covid-19-tech-solutionism-is-not?r=4cg0j&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=copy …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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