Tim Wu's Reading List

Columbia law professor; coined 'net neutrality'; author of The Master Switch and The Age of Extraction.

Books from The Ezra Klein Show: We Didn't Ask for This Internet (Cory Doctorow & Tim Wu) (2026)

Extracted via LLM from auto-captions of The Ezra Klein Show (2026-02-06).

Small Is Beautiful: Economics As If People Mattered

E.F. Schumacher · 1973 · Buy on Amazon

"I'd start with E.F. Schumacher's Small Is Beautiful: Economics As If People Mattered. It targets this question of what kind of world do we want to live in?"

Manipulation: What It Is, How to Stop It

Cass Sunstein · Buy on Amazon

"Cass Sunstein wrote a book on manipulation that I think has been underrated and is really good for understanding what we have allowed to happen."

The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers

Paul Kennedy · 1987 · Buy on Amazon

"I got some ideas about tech platforms and the big picture from Paul Kennedy's Rise and Fall of the Great Powers. Every empire has its destiny, its golden age, its decline. Understanding imperial dynamics is very important to understanding the technological empires of our time."

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