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December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The Great Stagnation” by Tyler Cowen

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Book Summary: “The Virtue of Nationalism” by Yoram Hazony

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Book Summary: “Planet of Cities” by Shlomo Angel

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Book Summary: “Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World” by Walter Russell Mead

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Book Summary: “The Triumph of the City” by Edward Glaeser

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Book Summary: “Poor Economics” by Banerjee and Duflo

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Book Summary: “Blueprint – How DNA Makes Us Who We Are” by Robert Plomin

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Book Summary: “The Ideas That Conquered the World” by Michael Mandelbaum

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Book Summary: “The Progress Paradox” by Gregg Easterbrook

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Book Summary: “States and Power in Africa” by Jeffrey Herbst

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Book Summary: “Wealth, Poverty and Politics” by Thomas Sowell

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Book Summary: “The Economic Laws of Scientific Research” by Terence Kealey

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Book Summary: “How Rich Countries Got Rich” by Eric S. Reinert

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Book Summary: “More From Less” by Andrew McAfee

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Book Summary: “The Company” by Micklethwait and Woolridge

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Book Summary: “Economic Systems of Foraging, Agricultural, and Industrial Societies” by Frederic Pryor

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Book Summary:“Leonardo to the Internet” by Thomas Misa

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Book Summary: “The Tools of Empire: Technology and European Imperialism..” by Daniel Headrick

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Book Summary: “The Sinews of Power: War, Money and the English State, 1688-1783″ by John Brewer

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Book Summary: “Holistic Darwinism” by Peter A. Corning

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Book Summary: “The Persistence of the Old Regime” by Arno Mayer

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Book Summary: “Rice Almanac” by Maclean, Hardy and Hettel

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Book Summary: “Why We Cooperate” by Michael Tomasello

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Book Summary: “Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human” by Richard Wrangham

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Book Summary: “The Social Organism: A Radical Understanding of Social Media” by Luckett and Casey

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Book Summary: “The Pursuit of Power” by William McNeill

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Book Summary: “War in World History (Vol 2)” by Morillo, Black and Lococo

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Book Summary: “War in World History (Vol 1)” by Morillo, Black and Lococo

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Book Summary: “A History of Warfare” by John Keegan

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Book Summary: “The Innovator’s DNA” by Clayton Christensen et al

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Book Summary: “The Institutional Revolution” by Douglass Allen

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Book Summary: “One Economics, Many Recipes” by Dani Rodrick

September 22, 2021November 21, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Introduction to Cultural Ecology” by Sutton and Anderson

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Book Summary: “An Edible History of Humanity” by Tom Standage

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Book Summary: “Tamed: Ten Species that Changed Our World” by Alice Roberts

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Book Summary: “The Plough that Broke the Steppes” by David Moon

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Book Summary: “The Arc of War” by Levy and Thompson

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Book Summary: “Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction” by Thomas McCraw

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