the final one is a fun one "bourgeois dignity" by deidre mccloskey and she is quite a renaissance scholar herself. she has been combining economics and ethics and literature for the past few decades a chicago school trained economists. high-end read, six-volume set in the works. i just referred to the second volume and it kind of takes on the causes of long-run economic growth and most people aren't familiar with this but it's the issue that improved human welfare more than any other issue you can name, period. i think i say that with pretty good confidence. her argument is, all human civilization income per person is about $500 a year, per person for all human history up until 1800. then in 1800 you get a hockey city and get explosive growth free market countries. so there's been a lot of speculation what is the true cause of that. i did my ph.d in economics on that. and she takes on every single one of the nobel papers, it's not capital accumulation north human couldal science, r & d the industrial revolution, and she dates every single one of these variables and she concludes that the