Hoover's book makes me think of Schwarz's book "Climbing the Ladder or Falling Off- Essays on Economic Mobility in Europe." I'll spend some money later getting your friends!
I like to read Steve Berry, who incorporates historical fact into his works of fiction. I spent as much time reading about the object "The Gigas Codex (Devil's Bible)" as I did his own work.
Taking some financial failure/shenanigan and extrapolating fictional paradox, yet bounded by the real world? Some unknown Maddox investment grew and funds political upheaval or is the basis for untold wealth/acquisition? The hard part is ensuring it remains grounded in verifiable methods since the best stories tend to be linked to common experience/knowledge.
Abdullah- I'm here to suggest you or someone else here might do well to re-write Hoov's book from a somewhat more realistic perspective -- to the effect that by contemplating the 45 million lower rungs of the economic ladder, a third option appears: that the system is operating EXACTLY as designed, and it is not designed to promote the careers of the 45 million. Those who sit at the top of the job pyramid designed the system -- not to help the 45 million, but to promote the careers of their friends and relatives while offering the appearance of a ladder for the 45 million. An actually interesting book would be one which explains 1. how to do an end run around the system by subverting its networking aspect or other means, and 2. how to deconstruct the system -- not by revolution but by strategically working with allies. I'd buy that one. And sell it to my students, who know enough about life to know the first one won't help them.
My book would likely be a cliometrics book. Applying quantitative modelling to history. I think like the scifi series foundation by asimov we can gain a lot of insight into hunan common cycles like ibn khaldun observed
The Man in the High Castle - Phillip K. Dick might be a good read.
*Took me a minute, but I believe Khaldun's taxation theory about not eroding the base was what Laffer drew upon? I want to insert a Ferris Bueller's Day Off reference with Voodoo Economics but no way to add video.
Sounds like we're on the same path, trying to integrate history into our work.
Hoover's book makes me think of Schwarz's book "Climbing the Ladder or Falling Off- Essays on Economic Mobility in Europe." I'll spend some money later getting your friends!
I like to read Steve Berry, who incorporates historical fact into his works of fiction. I spent as much time reading about the object "The Gigas Codex (Devil's Bible)" as I did his own work.
Taking some financial failure/shenanigan and extrapolating fictional paradox, yet bounded by the real world? Some unknown Maddox investment grew and funds political upheaval or is the basis for untold wealth/acquisition? The hard part is ensuring it remains grounded in verifiable methods since the best stories tend to be linked to common experience/knowledge.
Abdullah- I'm here to suggest you or someone else here might do well to re-write Hoov's book from a somewhat more realistic perspective -- to the effect that by contemplating the 45 million lower rungs of the economic ladder, a third option appears: that the system is operating EXACTLY as designed, and it is not designed to promote the careers of the 45 million. Those who sit at the top of the job pyramid designed the system -- not to help the 45 million, but to promote the careers of their friends and relatives while offering the appearance of a ladder for the 45 million. An actually interesting book would be one which explains 1. how to do an end run around the system by subverting its networking aspect or other means, and 2. how to deconstruct the system -- not by revolution but by strategically working with allies. I'd buy that one. And sell it to my students, who know enough about life to know the first one won't help them.
My book would likely be a cliometrics book. Applying quantitative modelling to history. I think like the scifi series foundation by asimov we can gain a lot of insight into hunan common cycles like ibn khaldun observed
The Man in the High Castle - Phillip K. Dick might be a good read.
*Took me a minute, but I believe Khaldun's taxation theory about not eroding the base was what Laffer drew upon? I want to insert a Ferris Bueller's Day Off reference with Voodoo Economics but no way to add video.
Sounds like we're on the same path, trying to integrate history into our work.