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January 9, 2021January 15, 2021 Michael Magoon

Read my new book: “From Poverty to Progress”

May 10, 2020January 16, 2021 Michael Magoon

Summaries of Top Ten Books

January 26, 2021 Michael Magoon

Summary: “The Age of Wood” by Roland Ennos

January 26, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The Box” by Marc Levinson

January 25, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “How the Old World Ended” by Jonathan Scott

January 25, 2021January 25, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “First Migrants” by Peter Bellwood

January 15, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Evolution of Human Societies” by Johnson and Earle

January 15, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The Central Liberal Truth” by Lawrence Harrison

January 15, 2021January 15, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Scale” by Geoffrey West

January 9, 2021January 15, 2021 Michael Magoon

Read my new book: “From Poverty to Progress”

December 7, 2020 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Hive Mind” by Garett Jones

November 28, 2020December 7, 2020 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Righteous Mind” by Jonathan Haidt

November 22, 2020November 28, 2020 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Is There Anything Good About Men?” by Roy F. Baumeister

May 21, 2020May 20, 2020 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Where Good Ideas Come From” by Steven Johnson

May 20, 2020May 21, 2020 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Emergence: the Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities and Software” by Steven Johnson

May 19, 2020January 15, 2021 Michael Magoon

Second Top Ten Books to Read

May 19, 2020May 18, 2020 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World” by Deirdre McCloskey

May 18, 2020May 19, 2020 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can’t Explain the Modern World” by Deirdre McCloskey

May 18, 2020January 15, 2021 Michael Magoon

Top Authors to Read

May 15, 2020May 14, 2020 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The Gap: Science of What Separates Us from Animals” by Thomas Suddendorf

May 14, 2020January 19, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The Story of the Human Body” by Daniel E. Lieberman

May 12, 2020 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Atlas of Economic Complexity: Mapping Paths to Prosperity” by Hausmann, Hidalgo et al

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