March 31, 2020March 18, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

March 31, 2020March 17, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

March 31, 2020April 15, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

March 30, 2020December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

March 30, 2020April 15, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

March 29, 2020December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

March 29, 2020April 15, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

March 28, 2020March 18, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

March 27, 2020December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

March 26, 2020November 21, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

March 25, 2020November 21, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Plagues and Peoples” by William McNeill

March 24, 2020December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

March 23, 2020April 15, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

March 19, 2020December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

March 17, 2020December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

March 13, 2020December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

March 12, 2020April 12, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

March 11, 2020November 21, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

March 6, 2020December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

March 5, 2020April 15, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

March 4, 2020December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

March 3, 2020November 21, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

March 2, 2020November 21, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Social Networks in the History of Innovation and Invention” by Francis Moon