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Found 5 books

Book
Mentions on MR
Good Work If You Can Get It
What I’ve been reading (2020-10-23)

Jason Brennan, Good Work If You Can Get It: How to Succeed in Academia .  My blurb said “The one book to read about trying to become a professor.”

When All Else Fails
What I’ve been reading (2018-08-31)

3. Jason Brennan, When All Else Fails: The Ethics of Resistance to State Injustice .  A well-argued libertarian take on exactly what the subtitle promises.

Against democracy
What I’ve been reading (2016-05-11)

1. Jason Brennan, Against Democracy .  He is a epistocrat . P.S. voters are ignorant and irrational.  Furthermore “Politics is not a Poem.”  I agree with most of the debunking arguments in this book, but I am not convinced epistocracy ends up being better; Brennan’s examples of epistocracy include restricted franchise, plural voting, voting by lottery, epistocratic veto (the Senate, but more so), and weighted voting.  I see big advantages to a strict normative ideal of legal egalitarianism of ci...

Why Not Capitalism?
Arrived in my (classical liberal) pile (2014-07-14)

1. Jason Brennan, Why Not Capitalism?

Libertarianism What Everyone Needs To Know
*Libertarianism: What Everyone Needs to Know* (2012-09-22)

That is the new Jason Brennan book , which has yet to arrive on my doorstep.

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