Category: Some Article Summaries
Summaries of articles related to the topic of this blog.
Article Summary: “Evidence for evolution in response to natural selection in a contemporary human population” by many
Article Summary: “Measuring Selection in Contemporary Human Populations” by many
Article Summary: “Is It Good To Cooperate?” by Curry, Mullins and Whitehouse
Article Summary: “Experienced Well-Being Rises with Income” by Matthew Killingsworth
Article Summary: “Economic Man in Cross-Cultural Perspective” by many
Article Summary: “Africa’s Growth Tragedy: Policy and Ethnic Divisions” by Easterly and Levine
Article Summary: “Tropics, Germs, and Crops: How Endowments Influence Economic Development” by Easterly and Levine
Article Summary: “Cotton, Slavery and the New History of Capitalism” by Olmstead and Rhode
Article Summary: “Dynamic of Economic Complexity over a 42 Year Period” by Cesar Hidalgo
Article Summary: “Economic Development as Self-Discovery” by Hausmann and Rodrik
Article Summary: “The Product Space Conditions the Development of Nations” by many
Article Summary: “Discovering Southern and East Africa’s Industrial Opportunities” by Cesar Hidalgo
Article Summary: “Shooting High or Low: Do Countries Benefit from Entering Unrelated Activities” by many
Article Summary: “Linking Economic Complexity, Institutions and Income Inequality” by Hartmann, Hidalgo et al
Article Summary: “Tropical Underdevelopment” by Jeffrey Sachs
Article Summary: “Cultural Biases in Economic Exchange?” by Guiso, Sapienza and Zingales
Article Summary: “A Nation of Immigrants: Assimilation and Economic Outcomes” by Abramitzky et al
Article Summary: “The Out of Africa Hypothesis” by Ashraf & Galor
Article Summary: “Ethnic Inequality” by Alesina, Michalopoulos & Papaioannou
Article Summary: “Recent Acceleration of Human Adaptive Evolution” by many
Article Summary: “A Map of Recent Positive Selection in the Human Genome” by many
Article Summary: “Ethnic and Cultural Diversity by Country” by James Fearon
Article Summary: “Needham Puzzle: Why the Industrial Revolution Did not Originate in China” by Justin Lin
Article Summary: “The Early Modern Great Divergence” by Broadberry and Gupta
Article Summary: “The Distribution of Human Population by Altitude” by Cohen and Small
Article Summary: “Influence of Ancestral Lifeways on Economic Outcomes in Africa” by Michalopoulos, Putterman & Weil
Article Summary: “The Effect of the TseTse Fly on African Development” by Marcella Alsan
Article Summary: “Meta-analysis of … twin studies” by many
Article Summary: “The Puzzle of Monogamous Marriage” by Henrich, Boyd and Richerson
Article Summary: “Biogeography and Long-Run Economic Development” by Olsson and Hibbs
Article Summary: “England’s Divergence from China’s Yangzi Delta” by Brenner and Isett
Article Summary: “The Early Modern Great Divergence” by Broadberry and Gupta
Article Summary: “Chinese Economic Performance in the Long Run” by Angus Maddison
Article Summary: “Long-term Barriers to the International Diffusion of Innovations” by Spolaore and Wacziarg
Article Summary: “The Pace of Cultural Evolution” by Charles Perreault
Article Summary: “Five Facts You Need to Know about Technology Diffusion” by Comin, Hobijn and Rovito
Article Summary: “Why Copy Others?” by Rendell, Boyd et al
Article Summary: “Long-term Barriers to the International Diffusion of Innovations” by Spolaore and Wacziarg
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