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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.

December 1, 2021February 1, 2023 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The Virtue of Nationalism” by Yoram Hazony

June 21, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

May 28, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

May 6, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

April 13, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

January 15, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

November 28, 2020December 24, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

May 19, 2020December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World” by Deirdre McCloskey

May 18, 2020December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can’t Explain the Modern World” by Deirdre McCloskey

April 25, 2020November 21, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “World on Fire” by Amy Chua

April 23, 2020December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

February 6, 2020December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

January 6, 2020December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Foragers, Farmers and Fossil Fuels” by Ian Morris

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