Author: Michael Magoon
Blogger on History, Technology & Progress.
Author of the "From Poverty to Progress" series of books. Available on Amazon.
Article Summary: “England’s Divergence from China’s Yangzi Delta” by Brenner and Isett
Book Summary: “Closing With the Enemy” by Michael D. Doubler
Article Summary: “The Early Modern Great Divergence” by Broadberry and Gupta
Article Summary: “Chinese Economic Performance in the Long Run” by Angus Maddison
Book Summary: “The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective” by Angus Maddison
Article Summary: “Long-term Barriers to the International Diffusion of Innovations” by Spolaore and Wacziarg
Book Summary: “The Birth of Plenty: How the Prosperity of the Modern World was Created” by William J. Bernstein
Article Summary: “The Pace of Cultural Evolution” by Charles Perreault
Book Summary: “How Paris Became Paris” by Joan DeJean
Book Summary: “Life’s Ratchet: How Molecular Machines Extract Order from Chaos” by Peter Hoffman
Book Summary: “Revolutions That Made the Earth” by Tim Lenton and Andrew Watson
Book Summary: “Plagues and Peoples” by William McNeill
Book Summary: “The Origin and Evolution of Cultures” by Robert Boyd and Peter Richerson
Article Summary: “Five Facts You Need to Know about Technology Diffusion” by Comin, Hobijn and Rovito
Book Summary: “Convergence: The Idea at the Heart of Science” by Peter Watson
Book Summary: “Origins: How Earth’s History Shaped Human History” by Lewis Dartnell
Book Summary: “Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World” by Daniel Epstein
Book Summary: “How Carriers Fought: Carrier Operations in WWII” by Lars Celander
Course Summary: “Principles of Human Ecology” by Peter Richerson et al
Book Summary: “Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West” by William Cronon
Book Summary: “The Son Also Rises: Surnames and the History of Social Mobility” by Gregory Clark
Book Summary: “Social Physics: How Social Networks Make Us Smarter” by Alex Pentland
Book Summary: “Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution” by Nick Lane
Book Summary: “Social Networks in the History of Innovation and Invention” by Francis Moon
Article Summary: “Why Copy Others?” by Rendell, Boyd et al
Article Summary: “Long-term Barriers to the International Diffusion of Innovations” by Spolaore and Wacziarg
Book Summary: “The Principles of Social Evolution” by Andrew Bourke
Book Summary “Escape from Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity” by Walter Scheidel
Article Summary: “The Diffusion of Development” by Spolaore and Wacziarg
Article Summary: “An Exploration of Technology Diffusion” by Comin and Hobijn
Book Summary: “Tentacles of Progress: Technology Transfer in the Age of Imperialism 1850-1940” by Daniel R. Headrick
Article Summary: “Technology as a Complex Adaptive System” by Fleming and Sorenson
Book Summary: “Why the West Rules-for Now: The Patterns of History” by Ian Morris
Book Summary: “Why Most Things Fail” by Paul Ormerod
Book Summary: “Violence and Social Orders” by North, Wallis and Weingast
Book Summary: “War: What is It Good for?” by Ian Morris
Book Summary: “Cultural Evolution: People’s Motivations are Changing” by Ronald Inglehart
Article Summary: “The European Origins of Economic Development” by Easterly and Levine
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