
Tag: Economic History


Book Summary: “The Company” by Micklethwait and Woolridge

Book Summary: “Economic Systems of Foraging, Agricultural, and Industrial Societies” by Frederic Pryor

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

Book Summary: “State, Economy and the Great Divergence” by Peer Vries

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

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

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

Book Summary: “The Causes of Economic Growth” by Rick Szostak

Book Summary: “Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy” by Avner Greif

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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