Tag: Economic Development
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
Book Summary: “Energy Transitions” by Vaclav Smil
Book Summary: “Prime Movers of Globalization: The History of Diesel Engines and Gas Turbines” by Vaclav Smil
Book Summary: “The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves” by Matt Ridley
Book Summary: “The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil…” by Daniel Yergin
Book Summary: “Tools for the Job: A Short History of Machine Tools” by LTC Rolt
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: “The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers” by Paul Kennedy
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
Book Summary: “The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge” by Matt Ridley
Article Summary: “Biogeography and Long-Run Economic Development” by Olsson and Hibbs
Book Summary: “The Tyranny of Experts” by William Easterly
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
Book Summary: “The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective” by Angus Maddison
Book Summary: “Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West” by William Cronon
Book Summary: “War: What is It Good for?” by Ian Morris
Article Summary: “The European Origins of Economic Development” by Easterly and Levine
Article Summary: “Was the Industrial Revolution Inevitable?” by Charles Jones
Article Summary: “How Deep are the Roots of Economic Development?” by Spolaore and Wacziarg
Book Summary: “Why Nations Fail” by Acemoglu and Robinson
