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Month: May 2020

May 21, 2020May 20, 2020 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Where Good Ideas Come From” by Steven Johnson

May 20, 2020May 21, 2020 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Emergence: the Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities and Software” by Steven Johnson

May 19, 2020January 15, 2021 Michael Magoon

Second Top Ten Books to Read

May 19, 2020May 18, 2020 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World” by Deirdre McCloskey

May 18, 2020May 19, 2020 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can’t Explain the Modern World” by Deirdre McCloskey

May 18, 2020January 15, 2021 Michael Magoon

Top Authors to Read

May 15, 2020May 14, 2020 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The Gap: Science of What Separates Us from Animals” by Thomas Suddendorf

May 14, 2020January 19, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The Story of the Human Body” by Daniel E. Lieberman

May 12, 2020 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Atlas of Economic Complexity: Mapping Paths to Prosperity” by Hausmann, Hidalgo et al

May 12, 2020May 14, 2020 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “People, Plants and Genes: the Story of Crops and Humanity” by Denis Murphy

May 11, 2020May 11, 2020 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Alchemy of Air” by Thomas Hager

May 10, 2020January 16, 2021 Michael Magoon

Summaries of Top Ten Books

May 9, 2020May 7, 2020 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution” by Cochran & Harpending

May 8, 2020May 7, 2020 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Ingenium: Five Machines that Changed the World” by Mark Denny

May 8, 2020May 7, 2020 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “End of the Old Order in Rural Europe” by Jerome Blum

May 7, 2020May 6, 2020 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Power to the People: Energy in Europe over the Last Five Centuries” by Kander et al

May 7, 2020May 6, 2020 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Human Accomplishment” by Charles Murray

May 6, 2020 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Energy Transitions” by Vaclav Smil

May 5, 2020May 6, 2020 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Prime Movers of Globalization” by Vaclav Smil

May 5, 2020May 4, 2020 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves” by Matt Ridley

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