Author: Michael Magoon
Blogger on History, Technology & Progress.
Author of the "From Poverty to Progress" series of books. Available on Amazon.
Book Summary: “One Economics, Many Recipes” by Dani Rodrick
Book Summary: “Introduction to Cultural Ecology” by Sutton and Anderson
Book Summary: “An Edible History of Humanity” by Tom Standage
Book Summary: “Tamed: Ten Species that Changed Our World” by Alice Roberts
Book Summary: “The Plough that Broke the Steppes” by David Moon
Book Summary: “The Arc of War” by Levy and Thompson
Book Summary: “Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction” by Thomas McCraw
Book Summary: “State, Economy and the Great Divergence” by Peer Vries
Book Summary: “The Second Law of Economics, Energy, Entropy and the Origins of Wealth” by Reiner Kummel
Book Summary: “Start-Up Nation” by Senor and Singer
Book Summary: “Creative Capital” by Spencer E. Ante
Book Summary: “Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism” by Baumol, Litan and Schramm
Book Summary: “Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise” by Anders Ericsson
Book Summary: “The Wealth and Poverty of Nations” by David Landes
Book Summary: “Kicking Away the Ladder” by Ha-Joon Chang
Book Summary: “The Innovator’s Dilemma” by Clayton Christensen
Book Summary: “The Talent Code” by Daniel Coyle
Book Summary: “Escaping Poverty: The Origins of Modern Economic Growth” by Peer Vries
Book Summary: “Talent is Overrated” by Geoff Colvin
Book Summary: “The Myths of Innovation” by Scott Berkun
Book Summary: “Energy: Engine of Evolution” by Frank Niele
Book Summary: “The Causes of Economic Growth” by Rick Szostak
Book Summary: “Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy” by Avner Greif
Book Summary: “Guilds, Innovation and the European Economy, 1400-1800” by Epstein and Prak
Book Summary: “In the Know: 35 Myths About Human Intelligence” by Russell T. Warne
Book Summary: “The Gifts of Athena: Historical Origins of the Knowledge Economy” by Joel Mokyr
Book Summary: “The Fifth Beginning: What Six Million Years of Human History Can Tell Us” by Robert Kelly
Book Summary: “Botswana: A Modern Economic History” by Hillborn and Bolt
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
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