July 21, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The Gifts of Athena: Historical Origins of the Knowledge Economy” by Joel Mokyr

July 19, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Energy and the English Industrial Revolution” by E. A. Wrigley

June 30, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The Great Divergence: China, Europe and the Making of the Modern World” by Kenneth Pomeranz

June 29, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The Role of Transportation in the Industrial Revolution” by Rick Szostak

June 25, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

June 24, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Networked Machinists: High-Technology Industries in Antebellum America” by David Meyer

June 22, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective” by Robert Allen

June 4, 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 19, 2020April 15, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World” by Deirdre McCloskey

April 13, 2020April 15, 2021 Michael Magoon

Article Summary: “The Early Modern Great Divergence” by Broadberry and Gupta

April 9, 2020March 18, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Oxford Handbook of Cities in World History” by Peter Clark

March 31, 2020April 15, 2021 Michael Magoon

Article Summary: “Chinese Economic Performance in the Long Run” by Angus Maddison

March 30, 2020April 22, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective” by Angus Maddison

March 29, 2020July 1, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The Birth of Plenty: How the Prosperity of the Modern World was Created” by William J. Bernstein

January 30, 2020April 15, 2021 Michael Magoon

Article Summary: “Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 BC? ” by many

January 29, 2020March 17, 2021 Michael Magoon

Article Summary: “Was the Industrial Revolution Inevitable?” by Charles Jones