
Category: Values & Culture
Books that focus on the role of values and culture on human history. In particular, they seek to identify those that aid development.


Book Summary: “Islam, Authoritarianism and Underdevelopment” by Ahmet Kuru

Book Summary: “Ethnic America: A History” by Thomas Sowell

Book Summary: “Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity” by Francis Fukuyama

Book Summary: “Inventing Freedom: How the English… Made the Modern World” by Daniel Hannan

Book Summary: “The Central Liberal Truth: How Politics Can Change a Culture…” by Lawrence Harrison

Book Summary: “Righteous Mind: Why People Are Divided by Politics and Reason” by Jonathan Haidt

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

Book Summary: “World on Fire” by Amy Chua

Book Summary: “Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America” by David Hackett Fisher

Book Summary: “Cultural Evolution: People’s Motivations are Changing” by Ronald Inglehart
