Which Books Do Paul Kedrosky and Azeem Azhar Recommend?

Ezra Klein asks each guest for three books. Paul Kedrosky recommends Middlemarch, about normal people swept along as a technology revolution takes hold. He also recommends Liberty's Dawn by Emma Griffin, a collection of ordinary workers' own accounts from the Industrial Revolution, and Insull: The Rise and Fall of a Billionaire Utility Tycoon by Forrest McDonald, about Samuel Insull. Paul Kedrosky says Insull built an electricity empire on a general purpose technology and still ended in collapse.

Azeem Azhar recommends The Day the Universe Changed, a book he read as a teenager and has just reread, about how new knowledge unsettles what matters and what a person's role in the world is. His second book is Fathers and Sons by Turgenev, set as science and modernity arrive in Russia and a younger generation conflicts with an older one. His third is Candide by Voltaire.