Month: June 2021
Book Summary: “The Role of Transportation in the Industrial Revolution” by Rick Szostak
Book Summary: “How Solar Energy Became Cheap” by Gregory Nemet
Book Summary: “The Long Road to the Industrial Revolution” by Jan Luiten van Zanden
Book Summary: “Networked Machinists: High-Technology Industries in Antebellum America” by David Meyer
Book Summary: “Cities of Commerce” by Oscar Gelderblom
Book Summary: “The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective” by Robert Allen
Book Summary: “Islam, Authoritarianism and Underdevelopment” by Ahmet Kuru
Book Summary: “The Big Ratchet: How Humanity Thrives in the Face of Natural Crisis” by Ruth DeFries
Book Summary: “A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History” by Nicholas Wade
Book Summary: “Going the Distance: Eurasian Trade and the Rise of the Business Corporation, 1400-1700” by Ron Harris
Article Summary: “Africa’s Growth Tragedy: Policy and Ethnic Divisions” by Easterly and Levine
Article Summary: “Tropics, Germs, and Crops: How Endowments Influence Economic Development” by Easterly and Levine
Book Summary: “Asia’s Next Giant: South Korea and Late Industrialization” by Alice Amsden
Book Summary: “Military Revolution and Political Change” by Brian Downing
The Ratchet of Technology, a site by Michael Magoon 