Ian Bremmer

Guest on The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · Guest on The Ezra Klein Show

Products they talk about

A World Appears👍 Recommends
…recommending favorite books that shaped his worldview and character
“Secondly, I was going to say A World Appears by Michael Pollan. I don't know if you've read it yet. He's been on the show. We had a great conversation. Oh, cool. So just this idea. I mean, I've liked him for a long time because he talks about issues that are not super fashionable that are really important to human beings.”
on The Ezra Klein Show
The Chronoliths👍 Recommends
…recommending favorite books that shaped his worldview and character
“And then finally, I was going to say The Chronoliths by Robert Charles Wilson, which was written back in 2001, but which I went back and I read recently. And I wanted to see if the book still held. And it was by, again, kind of neardewel intelligent folks, but who aren't really succeeding in society who, by virtue of being in the right place at the wrong time, witness something from the future coming back.”
on The Ezra Klein Show
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy👍 Recommends
…recommending favorite books that shaped his worldview and character
“Well, first, I've got to start with The Hitchhiker's Guide because when I was in high school and college, there were basically three kinds of kids. There were the Tolkien kids that were way too dorky. They were the Ayn Rand kids who you don't trust to run anything. And then there were the Douglas Adams kids. And those were kind people. They were curious. They were interested.”
on The Ezra Klein Show
The J Curve💬 Mentioned
…explaining a framework about how countries achieve stability through openness or closure
“I had this, the first big book that I wrote back in 2006 was called The J-Curve. And I doubt you even remember it, right? It's a long time ago. Who doesn't remember The J-Curve? Yeah, exactly. It was a small thing. At the time it was big for me. And it was about how countries did and didn't fall apart. The J is the relationship between openness and stability.”
on The Ezra Klein Show