Book Summary: “Is There Anything Good About Men?” by Roy F. Baumeister
Book Summary: “Where Good Ideas Come From” by Steven Johnson
Book Summary: “Emergence: the Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities and Software” by Steven Johnson
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Book Summary: “Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World” by Deirdre McCloskey
Book Summary: “Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can’t Explain the Modern World” by Deirdre McCloskey
Top Authors to Read
Book Summary: “The Gap: Science of What Separates Us from Animals” by Thomas Suddendorf
Book Summary: “The Story of the Human Body” by Daniel E. Lieberman
Book Summary: “Atlas of Economic Complexity: Mapping Paths to Prosperity” by Hausmann, Hidalgo et al
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Book Summary: “Alchemy of Air” by Thomas Hager
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Book Summary: “End of the Old Order in Rural Europe” by Jerome Blum
Book Summary: “Power to the People: Energy in Europe over the Last Five Centuries” by Kander et al
Book Summary: “Human Accomplishment” by Charles Murray
Book Summary: “Energy Transitions” by Vaclav Smil
