
Month: March 2020


Article Summary: “The Early Modern Great Divergence” by Broadberry and Gupta

Article Summary: “Chinese Economic Performance in the Long Run” by Angus Maddison

Book Summary: “The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective” by Angus Maddison

Article Summary: “Long-term Barriers to the International Diffusion of Innovations” by Spolaore and Wacziarg

Book Summary: “The Birth of Plenty: How the Prosperity of the Modern World was Created” by William J. Bernstein

Article Summary: “The Pace of Cultural Evolution” by Charles Perreault

Book Summary: “How Paris Became Paris” by Joan DeJean

Book Summary: “Life’s Ratchet: How Molecular Machines Extract Order from Chaos” by Peter Hoffman

Book Summary: “Revolutions That Made the Earth” by Tim Lenton and Andrew Watson

Book Summary: “Plagues and Peoples” by William McNeill

Book Summary: “The Origin and Evolution of Cultures” by Robert Boyd and Peter Richerson

Article Summary: “Five Facts You Need to Know about Technology Diffusion” by Comin, Hobijn and Rovito

Book Summary: “Convergence: The Idea at the Heart of Science” by Peter Watson

Book Summary: “Origins: How Earth’s History Shaped Human History” by Lewis Dartnell

Book Summary: “Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World” by Daniel Epstein

Book Summary: “How Carriers Fought: Carrier Operations in WWII” by Lars Celander

Course Summary: “Principles of Human Ecology” by Peter Richerson et al

Book Summary: “Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West” by William Cronon

Book Summary: “The Son Also Rises: Surnames and the History of Social Mobility” by Gregory Clark

Book Summary: “Social Physics: How Social Networks Make Us Smarter” by Alex Pentland

Book Summary: “Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution” by Nick Lane
