Category: Book Summaries
Summaries of books related to the content of this blog.
Book Summary: “State, Economy and the Great Divergence” by Peer Vries
Book Summary: “The Second Law of Economics, Energy, Entropy and the Origins of Wealth” by Reiner Kummel
Book Summary: “Start-Up Nation” by Senor and Singer
Book Summary: “Creative Capital” by Spencer E. Ante
Book Summary: “Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism” by Baumol, Litan and Schramm
Book Summary: “Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise” by Anders Ericsson
Book Summary: “The Wealth and Poverty of Nations” by David Landes
Book Summary: “Kicking Away the Ladder” by Ha-Joon Chang
Book Summary: “The Innovator’s Dilemma” by Clayton Christensen
Book Summary: “The Talent Code” by Daniel Coyle
Book Summary: “Escaping Poverty: The Origins of Modern Economic Growth” by Peer Vries
Book Summary: “Talent is Overrated” by Geoff Colvin
Book Summary: “The Myths of Innovation” by Scott Berkun
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
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