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Book Group Information

Tue, 01/15/2013 - 5:31pm — Sandra.Coyner

FUTURE BOOKS and RECOMMENDATIONS Click on the book title below for additional information, images, comments, and maybe even links about the book. To send a book recommendation directly to the book group leader, click here. We are group #17 at Bloomsbury’s if you choose to get your books there.

01/10/2100 - 1:00pm Book Group RECOMMENDATION: TBA

December 3, 2024 at 2 pm Pacific Time on Zoom (not November 18)
Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream by David Leonhardt (2023 about 420 pp.). Traces origins, success of, and challenges to the American Dream from the Depression to the present. Ends with discussable ideas about what political “compromise” might mean.

January 7, 2025 at 2 pm Pacific Time on Zoom
Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth by Ingrid Robeyns, 2024, 230 pp. Why would reducing extreme wealth be a good idea? And how much wealth is too much? Then, how can greater wealth equality actually be achieved? This book is written by an ethicist and endorsed by data-using scholars including Piketty and other economists. The review says "This provocative consideration of extreme wealth accumulation asks how society might improve if the phenomenon were eliminated. Robeyns, a philosopher, uses the term 'limitarianism' to describe an economic framework that would impose a cap on how much money any single individual can amass."

February 4, 2025 at 2 pm Pacific Time on Zoom
A Hacker’s Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society’s Rules, and How to Bend them Back by Bruce Schneier, 2023, 252 pp. The concept of “hacking” comes to us from the computer world, and this book first helps us understand its meaning and practice, including how to defend against it. Then Schneier suggests that a hacking mentality underlies much of our social inequality, with whole professions (tax accountants and attorneys, for example) devoted to allowing the wealthy to escape and twist the rules. Includes legal, financial, political, cognitive, and AI hacks.

Contact Joseph Graf (graf@sou.edu) to receive the zoom link for these sessions.

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