Wages and work, emotions and your brain, your favorite EconTalk episodes, and MORE.

Econlib Newsletter
April 2022

Dear friends,

Today's new EconTalk takes a deep dive into Russian literature with Richard Gunderman. At the same time, we see no apparent end to the hostilities in Ukraine. As we continue to witness these horrors, we thought we might take this opportunity to highlight come classic Econlib content that might help us make sense of Putin, the former Soviet Union, and the war in Ukraine.
* George Shultz on Economics, Human Rights and the Fall of the Soviet Union ([link removed])
* Paul Gregory on Politics, Murder, and Love in Stalin's Kremlin ([link removed])
* Robert Service on Trotsky ([link removed])
* Kevin McKenna on Solzhenitsyn, the Soviet Union, and In the First Circle ([link removed])
* Christopher Hitchens on Orwell ([link removed])
* Paul Gregory, Russia's Economy: Putin and the KGB State ([link removed])
* A Conversation with Steve Pejovich ([link removed])


Of course we're also bringing you the newest content on Econlib, including four new Feature Articles, weekly podcasts, and our ongoing conversation at EconLog ([link removed]) .

Until next month, stay well, and stay curious.

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NEW Econlib Articles: April 2022
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Subversive Innovation: A Strategic Reading of Nozick's Framework for Utopia

By Max Borders


Focusing on Part III of Robert Nozick's opus, Max Borders argues that. "Nozick’s Framework, properly applied, offers those who share his ideological priors a sketch of how to liberate more human beings from power and poverty. Such a project is more valuable than arguing endlessly about ideal justice, as to realize ideal justice is practically impossible." Read More ([link removed]) .

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From Prometheus to Arcadia: Human Supremacy, Carrying Capacity and Ecological Footprints
By Pierre Desrochers
Are you an econ-pessimist or an eco-optimist? Pierre Desrochers contrasts Arcadians, Prometheans, and a number of new books on earth's future. Read More ([link removed]) .

Emotions in the Driver's Seat

By Arnold Kling


Your brain has a backseat driver who sometimes helps and sometimes hinders your progress. Your passenger might be useful in the long-run, especially in terms of helping you, the driver, take longer-tern consequences into account. “To get the driver to take us where we want to go, we have to make sure that the short-term emotional rewards that we put in front of him lead him to steer the car toward our long-term goals.” Read More ([link removed]) .

Work, Wages, and Capitalism
By Steven Davies

What is the role of work in our lives? "In the Bible, work is a central part of the state and condition of humanity after the Fall, along with other inevitabilities such as death...This is a book to be both read closely and systematically and dipped into and consumed in smaller pieces, as there is much to be gained from both the many smaller and more focused accounts it contains and the larger narratives and analysis that run through the entire work from start to finish." Read More ([link removed]) .
EconTalk: Conversations for the Curious
Pano Kanelos on Education and UATX
What is real education? What can colleges provide their students? Pano Kanelos ([link removed]) , president of the new college-to-be in Austin, UATX, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts ([link removed]) about the nature of education, what the Great Books can teach us, and how we should rethink college education in today's world. Explore more. ([link removed])

More Recent Episodes:
* NEW today: Richard Gunderman on Greed, Adam Smith, and Leo Tolstoy ([link removed])
* Maxine Clark on Building Build-a-Bear Workshop ([link removed])
* Robert Pindyck on Averting and Adapting to Climate Change ([link removed])
* Angela Duckworth on Character ([link removed])

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