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Month: September 2021

September 24, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The Institutional Revolution” by Douglass Allen

September 23, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “One Economics, Many Recipes” by Dani Rodrick

September 22, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Introduction to Cultural Ecology” by Sutton and Anderson

September 21, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “An Edible History of Humanity” by Tom Standage

September 20, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Tamed: Ten Species that Changed Our World” by Alice Roberts

September 17, 2021November 21, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The Plough that Broke the Steppes” by David Moon

September 16, 2021September 16, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The Arc of War” by Levy and Thompson

September 16, 2021November 21, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction” by Thomas McCraw

September 15, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “State, Economy and the Great Divergence” by Peer Vries

September 14, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The Second Law of Economics, Energy, Entropy and the Origins of Wealth” by Reiner Kummel

September 3, 2021November 21, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Start-Up Nation” by Senor and Singer

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