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Weekend Reading, Watching and Listening Recommendations (April 9, 2021)

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Weekend Reading, Watching and Listening Recommendations (April 9, 2021)

The Rise of the Technocrats; We must urgently transform our relationship with water.; How the WTO Changed China; Mapping the World’s Key Maritime Choke Points

Abhas K. Jha
Apr 9, 2021
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  1. Read: Rise of the Technocrats: Economic historian Adam Tooze’s smart take on whether Janet Yellen and Mario Draghi vindicate the past half-century of centrist expertise? [via Foreign Policy]

  2. Read: Here's What the Tech CEOs Wish They Could Say to Congress [via Stephen Levy, WIRED]

  3. Read: How the WTO Changed China: The Mixed Legacy of Economic Engagement [via Foreign Affairs]

  4. Listen: Why Sci-Fi Legend Ted Chiang Fears Capitalism, Not A.I‪.‬: Chiang is probably one of the greatest short story writers of our time. This conversation with Ezra Kelin is brilliant

  5. Listen: If humans are to survive and thrive for the rest of the 21st Century we must urgently transform our relationship with water. [via the BBC]

  6. Chart of the Week: Mapping the World’s Key Maritime Choke Points [via Visual Capitalist]

    maritime choke points
  7. Watch: Shoshana Zuboff of Harvard Business School on surveillance capitalism

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