Author: Michael Magoon
Blogger on History, Technology & Progress.
Author of the "From Poverty to Progress" series of books. Available on Amazon.
Book Summary: “Factfulness: Why Things are Better Than You Think” by Hans Rosling
Article Summary: “Tropical Underdevelopment” by Jeffrey Sachs
Article Summary: “Cultural Biases in Economic Exchange?” by Guiso, Sapienza and Zingales
Article Summary: “A Nation of Immigrants: Assimilation and Economic Outcomes” by Abramitzky et al
Book Summary: “Enlightenment Now” by Steven Pinker
Book Summary: “Ten Global Trends Every Smart Person Should Know” by Bailey and Tupy
Book Summary: “Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity” by Francis Fukuyama
Book Summary: “Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World” by Niall Ferguson
Book Summary: “Introduction to Biomes” by Susan Woodward
Book Summary: “Future Perfect: The Case for Progress In a Networked Age” by Steven Johnson
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Article Summary: “The Out of Africa Hypothesis” by Ashraf & Galor
Article Summary: “Ethnic Inequality” by Alesina, Michalopoulos & Papaioannou
Book Summary: “Accidental Empires: How… Silicon Valley Make Their Millions” by Robert X Cringely
Book Summary: “Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity ” by Pluckrose & Lindsay
Book Summary: “Big Is Beautiful: Debunking the Myth of Small Business” by Atkinson and Lind
Book Summary: “Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956” by Anne Applebaum
Book Summary: “Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire” by Wallace and Erickson
Article Summary: “Recent Acceleration of Human Adaptive Evolution” by many
Article Summary: “A Map of Recent Positive Selection in the Human Genome” by many
Book Summary: “Cousins’ War: Religion, Politics, Civil War, and the Triumph of the Anglo-America” by Kevin Phillips
Book Summary: “Energy and Civilization: A History” by Vaclav Smil
Book Summary: “The Tragedy of Great Power Politics” by John Mearsheimer
Article Summary: “Ethnic and Cultural Diversity by Country” by James Fearon
Book Summary: “Understanding Human History” by Michael Hart
Book Summary: “Inventing Freedom: How the English… Made the Modern World” by Daniel Hannan
Book Summary: “Where Wizards Stay Up Late: Origins of the Internet” by Hafner and Lyon
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Book Summary: “An Introduction to Agricultural Geography” by David Grigg
Book Summary: “The Agricultural Systems of the World: An Evolutionary Approach” by David Grigg
Book Summary: “Food, Energy and Society” by David and Marcia Pimentel
Book Summary: “Lifeways of Hunter-Gatherers” by Robert Kelly
Book Summary: “Horses at Work: Horses in Industrial America” by Ann Norton Greene
Book Summary: “Geopolitics in Late Antiquity” by Hyun Jin Kim
Book Summary: “A History of World Agriculture” by Mazoyer and Roudart
Book Summary: “Rulers, Religion, and Riches” by Jared Rubin
Book Summary: “The Camel and the Wheel” by Richard Bulliet
Book Summary: “Uncontrolled: The Surprising Payoff of Trial-and-Error… ” by Jim Stanzi
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