Here's a short list of important books to complement my essay:
amazon.com/Whole-Earth-Di… by @stewartbrand on why even environmentalists should be pro building, pro cities, pro nuclear, and pro genetic engineering.
amazon.com/More-Less-Surp… by @amcafee on how modern technological economies can build more outputs with less inputs, and why we need all economies to be modern and technological.
amazon.com/Power-Producti… by William Lewis on how technology-driven productivity growth improves human welfare and creates more jobs and higher wages.
amazon.com/Recapturing-Sp… by George Gilder @ScandalOfMoney on how economic systems that encourage aggressive entrepreneurship build the most for the benefit of the most.
amazon.com/Tycoons-Carneg… by Charles Morris on how four great builders of the 19th century built the world we live in today.
amazon.com/Edison-Edmund-… by Edmund Morris on perhaps the greatest American builder of all, the builder who brought electricity to us all, Thomas Edison.
amazon.com/Triumph-City-G… by Edward Glaeser @triumphofcity on the central role cities play in our world and why it's so important for us to build them -- more, bigger, better.
amazon.com/Golden-Gates-F… by @ConorDougherty on why we can't build in great American cities like San Francisco today and what we need to do about it.
And finally quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A30880.… “An Apology For The Builder” by Nicholas Barbon, written in 1685. HT @tylercowen. Some things never change!
