Tag: Economic Development
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
Book Summary: “Prime Movers of Globalization” by Vaclav Smil
Summary: “The Prize” by Daniel Yergin
Book Summary: “Enlightened Economy: An Economic History of Britain 1700-1850” by Joel Mokyr
Book Summary: “How the Scots Invented the Modern World” by Arthur Herman
Book Summary: “World on Fire” by Amy Chua
Book Summary: “Conquests and Cultures” by Thomas Sowell
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
Book Summary: “First Modern Economy… Dutch Economy 1500-1815” by Jan de Vries
Article Summary: “Influence of Ancestral Lifeways on Economic Outcomes in Africa” by Michalopoulos, Putterman & Weil
Article Summary: “Biogeography and Long-Run Economic Development” by Olsson and Hibbs
Book Summary: “The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor” by William Easterly
Article Summary: “England’s Divergence from China’s Yangzi Delta” by Brenner & Isett
Article Summary: “The Early Modern Great Divergence” by Broadberry and Gupta
Article Summary: “Chinese Economic Performance in the Long Run” by Angus Maddison
