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Book Summary: “The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves” by Matt Ridley
Book Summary: “The Story of the Human Body” by Daniel E. Lieberman
Book Summary: "The Nature of Technology" by W. Brian Arthur
Book Summary: “The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization” by Brian Fagan
Book Summary: “Why Nations Fail” by Acemoglu & Robinson
Book Summary: “The Gap: Science of What Separates Us from Animals” by Thomas Suddendorf

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Book Summary: “Where Good Ideas Come From” by Steven Johnson
Book Summary: “Emergence: the Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities and Software” by Steven Johnson
Second Top Ten Books to Read
Book Summary: “Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World” by Deirdre McCloskey
Book Summary: “Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can’t Explain the Modern World” by Deirdre McCloskey

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