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December 3, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Stubborn Attachments: A Vision for a Society of Free, Prosperous, and Responsible Individuals” by Tyler Cowen

November 22, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Poor Economics” by Banerjee and Duflo

November 3, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “How Rich Countries Got Rich” by Eric S. Reinert

September 23, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “One Economics, Many Recipes” by Dani Rodrick

September 14, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The Second Law of Economics, Energy, Entropy and the Origins of Wealth” by Reiner Kummel

September 3, 2021November 21, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Start-Up Nation” by Senor and Singer

August 5, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism” by Baumol, Litan and Schramm

August 3, 2021November 21, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The Wealth and Poverty of Nations” by David Landes

August 2, 2021November 21, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Kicking Away the Ladder” by Ha-Joon Chang

July 29, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Escaping Poverty: The Origins of Modern Economic Growth” by Peer Vries

July 20, 2021November 21, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Botswana: A Modern Economic History” by Hillborn and Bolt

July 8, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not” by Prasannan Parthasarathi

June 25, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The Long Road to the Industrial Revolution” by Jan Luiten van Zanden

June 21, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

June 16, 2021 Michael Magoon

Article Summary: “Africa’s Growth Tragedy: Policy and Ethnic Divisions” by Easterly and Levine

June 16, 2021June 16, 2021 Michael Magoon

Article Summary: “Tropics, Germs, and Crops: How Endowments Influence Economic Development” by Easterly and Levine

June 4, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Asia’s Next Giant: South Korea and Late Industrialization” by Alice Amsden

May 27, 2021 Michael Magoon

Article Summary: “Cotton, Slavery and the New History of Capitalism” by Olmstead and Rhode

May 20, 2021May 20, 2021 Michael Magoon

Article Summary: “Dynamic of Economic Complexity over a 42 Year Period” by Cesar Hidalgo

May 20, 2021May 20, 2021 Michael Magoon

Article Summary: “Economic Development as Self-Discovery” by Hausmann and Rodrik

May 20, 2021November 20, 2021 Michael Magoon

Article Summary: “The Product Space Conditions the Development of Nations” by many

May 20, 2021January 28, 2023 Michael Magoon

Article Summary: “Discovering Southern and East Africa’s Industrial Opportunities” by Cesar Hidalgo

May 20, 2021May 20, 2021 Michael Magoon

Article Summary: “Shooting High or Low: Do Countries Benefit from Entering Unrelated Activities” by many

May 20, 2021May 20, 2021 Michael Magoon

Article Summary: “Linking Economic Complexity, Institutions and Income Inequality” by Hartmann, Hidalgo et al

May 19, 2021November 21, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Emerging Africa” by Steven Radelet

May 14, 2021January 28, 2023 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Factfulness: Why Things are Better Than You Think” by Hans Rosling

May 13, 2021 Michael Magoon

Article Summary: “Tropical Underdevelopment” by Jeffrey Sachs

May 6, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

April 29, 2021May 7, 2021 Michael Magoon

Article Summary: “The Out of Africa Hypothesis” by Ashraf & Galor

April 29, 2021April 29, 2021 Michael Magoon

Article Summary: “Ethnic Inequality” by Alesina, Michalopoulos & Papaioannou

March 29, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Rulers, Religion, and Riches” by Jared Rubin

March 17, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The WIERDest People in the World” by Joseph Henrich

February 16, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “A Question of Power: Electricity and the Wealth of Nations” by Robert Bryce

January 26, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The Box: How the Shipping Container…” by Marc Levinson

January 15, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

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

May 12, 2020December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Atlas of Economic Complexity: Mapping Paths to Prosperity” by Hausmann, Hidalgo et al

May 7, 2020November 21, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Power to the People: Energy in Europe over the Last Five Centuries” by Kander et al

May 6, 2020December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Energy Transitions” by Vaclav Smil

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