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Month: March 2020

March 31, 2020April 9, 2020 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Closing With the Enemy” by Michael D. Doubler

March 31, 2020 Michael Magoon

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

March 31, 2020March 31, 2020 Michael Magoon

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

March 30, 2020April 1, 2020 Michael Magoon

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

March 30, 2020March 27, 2020 Michael Magoon

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

March 29, 2020 Michael Magoon

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

March 29, 2020March 27, 2020 Michael Magoon

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

March 28, 2020March 26, 2020 Michael Magoon

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

March 27, 2020March 26, 2020 Michael Magoon

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

March 26, 2020March 25, 2020 Michael Magoon

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

March 25, 2020March 26, 2020 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Plagues and Peoples” by William McNeill

March 24, 2020May 4, 2020 Michael Magoon

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

March 23, 2020 Michael Magoon

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

March 19, 2020March 19, 2020 Michael Magoon

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

March 17, 2020March 26, 2020 Michael Magoon

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

March 13, 2020March 13, 2020 Michael Magoon

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

March 12, 2020April 9, 2020 Michael Magoon

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

March 11, 2020May 4, 2020 Michael Magoon

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

March 6, 2020March 10, 2020 Michael Magoon

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

March 5, 2020May 4, 2020 Michael Magoon

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

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