Category: Book Summaries
Summaries of books related to the content of this blog.
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
Book Summary: “Knowledge and Competitive Advantage” by Johann Peter Murmann
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
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
Book Summary: “Natural Gas: Fuel for the 21st Century” by Vaclav Smil
Book Summary: “Expert Political Judgement: How Good Is It?” by Philip Tetlock
