The entire interview can be watched over at POWERLINE. These are the books leader Badenoch mentioned being key to her political evolution:
… Bari asks Badenoch if she read any books that influenced her intellectual evolution. Good question!
If Thomas Sowell came to mind, as it did to mine, you are correct. Badenoch found Sowell’s Basic Economics on a Google search for books about the subject and, she declares, “My whole world changed.” It’s a powerful moment that is worth taking in.
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Badenoch also names Hayek’s Road to Serfdom (she names it first), Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson’s Why Nations Fail, Jonathan Haidt’s The Righteous Mind, and Roger Scruton’s How To Be a Conservative.