Shagor Rahman

English Teacher You Wish you Had

Revisado: 05-05-22

As absorbing as reading the text with all the cultural and literary context. Amazing.

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Masterful return of the Humanities to Economics.

Revisado: 03-12-22

This book, beautifully performed as an audiobook, represents a masterful continuation of a tradition in Economics and the Social sciences that has unfortunately experienced a long hiatus. Economists including Adam Smith, John Maynard Keynes, and Frank Knight strode across disciplines to better understand commerce and the material well-being of societies. Unfortunately, due to the effort to exhaustively mathematize the profession, and the broader trend of rigidly drawing lines between disciplines, economists these days are rarely venture outside their spreadsheets and explicitly economic subject matter. Bart J. Wilson breaks this trend by veering into linguistics, history, and anthropology to shine a light on the blind spot of Economists and other social scientists. Property rights, as Wilson persuasively and thoroughly points out, are not just the legal rights over material objects we demarcate and carry around with this. They are a custom unique to humanity and imbued with moral character. The rights to property represent an extension of one's person. The universal visceral human response to theft is tied to this custom and sits at the heart of every economic system.

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Masterpiece

Revisado: 01-27-22

flawlessly written and performed. moreover everything a non fiction book should be but a tad more. rather than polemical or even focused narrowly on a specific message it offers an accessible and human perspective on advanced fields and topics.

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great and creative read. sci fi at its almost best

Revisado: 09-18-21

loved it. creative and modern retool of the spider myth but the framing felt a tad forced.

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succinct, accessible, and important

Revisado: 07-02-21

Dense with information and references. But follows a seamless narrative structure. perhaps the most important social psychology book to understand a pressing and tragically ignored failing of our society.

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a book for the ages

Revisado: 10-15-19

the wisdom of Allan Watts increases exponentially in relevance.a must read in a time when Society is wanting for religious and spiritual guidance

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earth shattering insights in an engaging bow.

Revisado: 07-03-19

seems to be an emerging concensus, along with Joseph Henrich and other social scientist that have grown our understanding of the impact sociality on our past. this immensely readable and page turning story reads like a summer thriller and thinking like a long pod cast.

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unapologetic sycophant

Revisado: 11-24-16

loved it. James has nailed it once again. the audible narration was amazing as well.

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