Tag: Economic Development
Book Summary: “Poor Economics” by Banerjee and Duflo
Book Summary: “How Rich Countries Got Rich” by Eric S. Reinert
Book Summary: “One Economics, Many Recipes” by Dani Rodrick
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: “Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism” by Baumol, Litan and Schramm
Book Summary: “The Wealth and Poverty of Nations” by David Landes
Book Summary: “Kicking Away the Ladder” by Ha-Joon Chang
Book Summary: “Escaping Poverty: The Origins of Modern Economic Growth” by Peer Vries
Book Summary: “Botswana: A Modern Economic History” by Hillborn and Bolt
Book Summary: “Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not” by Prasannan Parthasarathi
Book Summary: “The Long Road to the Industrial Revolution” by Jan Luiten van Zanden
Book Summary: “Islam, Authoritarianism and Underdevelopment” by Ahmet Kuru
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
Book Summary: “Asia’s Next Giant: South Korea and Late Industrialization” by Alice Amsden
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
Book Summary: “Emerging Africa” by Steven Radelet
Book Summary: “Factfulness: Why Things are Better Than You Think” by Hans Rosling
Article Summary: “Tropical Underdevelopment” by Jeffrey Sachs
Book Summary: “Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity” by Francis Fukuyama
Article Summary: “The Out of Africa Hypothesis” by Ashraf & Galor
Article Summary: “Ethnic Inequality” by Alesina, Michalopoulos & Papaioannou
Book Summary: “Rulers, Religion, and Riches” by Jared Rubin
Book Summary: “The WIERDest People in the World” by Joseph Henrich
Book Summary: “A Question of Power: Electricity and the Wealth of Nations” by Robert Bryce
Book Summary: “The Box: How the Shipping Container…” by Marc Levinson
Book Summary: “The Central Liberal Truth: How Politics Can Change a Culture…” by Lawrence Harrison
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: “Atlas of Economic Complexity: Mapping Paths to Prosperity” by Hausmann, Hidalgo et al
Book Summary: “Power to the People: Energy in Europe over the Last Five Centuries” by Kander et al
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