Author: Michael Magoon
Blogger on History, Technology & Progress.
Author of the "From Poverty to Progress" series of books. Available on Amazon.
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
Book Summary: “The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet” by Ramez Naam
Book Summary: “Big History and the Future of Humanity” by Fred Spier
Book Summary: “The Origins of Political Order” by Francis Fukuyama
Article Summary: “Dynamic of Economic Complexity over a 42 Year Period” by Cesar Hidalgo
Article Summary: “Economic Development as Self-Discovery” by Hausmann and Rodrik
Article Summary: “The Product Space Conditions the Development of Nations” by many
Article Summary: “Discovering Southern and East Africa’s Industrial Opportunities” by Cesar Hidalgo
Article Summary: “Shooting High or Low: Do Countries Benefit from Entering Unrelated Activities” by many
Article Summary: “Linking Economic Complexity, Institutions and Income Inequality” by Hartmann, Hidalgo et al
Book Summary: “Emerging Africa” by Steven Radelet
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