
Month: April 2020


Book Summary: “Science and Technology in World History: An Introduction” by McClellan and Dorn

Book Summary: “How the Scots Invented the Modern World” by Arthur Herman

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Book Summary: “A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World” by Gregory Clark

Book Summary: “Before the Dawn: Discovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors” by Nicholas Wade

Book Summary: “World on Fire” by Amy Chua

Book Summary: “The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers” by Paul Kennedy

Book Summary: “The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization” by Brian Fagan

Book Summary: “Migration and Culture” by Thomas Sowell

Book Summary: “Conquests and Cultures” by Thomas Sowell

Book Summary: “Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America” by David Hackett Fisher

Book Summary: “Why Europe?: The Rise of the West…” by Jack Goldstone

Book Summary: “Replenishing the Earth: The Settler Revolution and the Rise of the Angloworld” by James Belich

Book Summary: The Making of Europe… 950-1350” by Robert Bartlett

Book Summary: “Why did Europe Conquer the World?” by Philip Hoffman

Book Summary: “Life in a Medieval City” by Joseph and Frances Gies

Book Summary: “The Medieval City” by Norman Pounds

Article Summary: “Needham Puzzle: Why the Industrial Revolution Did not Originate in China” by Justin Lin

Book Summary: “Cultural Evolution: How Darwinian Theory Can Explain Human Culture” by Alex Mesoudi

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

Book Summary: “Nature’s Magic: Synergy in Evolution…” by Peter Corning

Book Summary: “First Modern Economy… Dutch Economy 1500-1815” by Jan de Vries

Book Summary: “Fifty Inventions that Shaped the Modern Economy” by Tim Harford

Article Summary: “The Distribution of Human Population by Altitude” by Cohen and Small

Article Summary: “Influence of Ancestral Lifeways on Economic Outcomes in Africa” by Michalopoulos, Putterman & Weil

Article Summary: “The Effect of the TseTse Fly on African Development” by Marcella Alsan

Book Summary: “Economics of Coercion and Conflict” by Mark Harrison

Article Summary: “Meta-analysis of … twin studies” by many

Book Summary: “Amsterdam: A History of the World’s Most Liberal City” by Russell Shorto

Book Summary: “Oxford Handbook of Cities in World History” by Peter Clark

Book Summary: “Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure” by Tim Harford

Book Summary: “Invisible Weapon: Telecommunications and International Politics 1851-1945” by Daniel Headrick

Book Summary: “The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge” by Matt Ridley

Book Summary: “Ultrasociety: How 10,000 Years of War Made Humans the Greatest Cooperators…” by Peter Turchin

Article Summary: “The Puzzle of Monogamous Marriage” by Henrich, Boyd and Richerson

Book Summary: “Marriage and Civilization: How Monogamy Made Us Human” by William Tucker

Article Summary: “Biogeography and Long-Run Economic Development” by Olsson and Hibbs

Book Summary: “The Tyranny of Experts” by William Easterly
