Author: Michael Magoon
Blogger on History, Technology & Progress.
Author of the "From Poverty to Progress" series of books. Available on Amazon.
Book Summary: “Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature” by Geoffrey Miller
Book Summary: “Energy and the English Industrial Revolution” by E. A. Wrigley
Book Summary: “Epic of Evolution: Seven Ages of the Cosmos” by Eric Chaisson
Book Summary: “Tropical Forest Biomes” by Barbara Holzman
Article Summary: “Evidence for evolution in response to natural selection in a contemporary human population” by many
Article Summary: “Measuring Selection in Contemporary Human Populations” by many
Article Summary: “Is It Good To Cooperate?” by Curry, Mullins and Whitehouse
Article Summary: “Experienced Well-Being Rises with Income” by Matthew Killingsworth
Article Summary: “Economic Man in Cross-Cultural Perspective” by many
Book Summary: “Knowledge and Competitive Advantage” by Johann Peter Murmann
Book Summary: “A Cooperative Species: Human Reciprocity and Its Evolution” by Bowles and Gintis
Book Summary: “Economic Transformations: General Purpose Technologies and Long Term Economic Growth” by Lipsey, Carlaw and Bekar
Book Summary: “Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not” by Prasannan Parthasarathi
Book Summary: “Who We Are and How We Got Here” by David Reich
Book Summary: “The Dynamics of Ancient Empires” by Morris and Scheidel
Book Summary: “Rome and China: Comparative Perspectives on Ancient World Empires” by Walter Scheidel
Book Summary: “The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality” by Walter Scheidel
Book Summary: “Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature” by Steven Pinker
Book Summary: “The Great Divergence: China, Europe and the Making of the Modern World” by Kenneth Pomeranz
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
Book Summary: “Temperate Forest Biomes” by Bernd H. Kuenneck
Book Summary: “Ethnic America: A History” by Thomas Sowell
Article Summary: “Cotton, Slavery and the New History of Capitalism” by Olmstead and Rhode
Book Summary: “Natural Gas: Fuel for the 21st Century” by Vaclav Smil
Book Summary: “Expert Political Judgement: How Good Is It?” by Philip Tetlock
