The first book is The Age of Extraction by Tim Wu. This is a fantastic book that talks about how many of our companies that used to do a lot of good for the world are now rather than producing wealth, they're doing wealth extraction and that's not good for any of us. And it's relevant for these issues of taxing individuals and taxing companies.
Answering The Ezra Klein Show's closing question, three books to recommend, in “Our Tax System Should Make You Furious” (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-ray-madoff.html). Quoted from the episode's YouTube auto-captions.
The other is the book The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order by Gary Gerstle. I like this. All past guests of the show, Tim Wu, Gary Gerstle. Oh, yeah, I love yeah, these are great books. That is a fantastic book and it I will say that the title is a bit daunting.
Answering The Ezra Klein Show's closing question, three books to recommend, in “Our Tax System Should Make You Furious” (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-ray-madoff.html). Quoted from the episode's YouTube auto-captions.
And the last book is a book of fiction, the book Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen. Uh fiction at any time and particularly in these times is just a a fantastic place to live, to explore other things than the world that we're living in and I'd say Jonathan Franzen better than almost anyone I know presents people's internal psychological dramas. You feel like you're watching a documentary.
Answering The Ezra Klein Show's closing question, three books to recommend, in “Our Tax System Should Make You Furious” (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-ray-madoff.html). Quoted from the episode's YouTube auto-captions.
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