Tag: Ideas
Book Summary: “Stubborn Attachments: A Vision for a Society of Free, Prosperous, and Responsible Individuals” by Tyler Cowen
Book Summary: “The Ideas That Conquered the World” by Michael Mandelbaum
Book Summary: “Expert Political Judgement: How Good Is It?” by Philip Tetlock
Book Summary: “The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet” by Ramez Naam
Book Summary: “Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity ” by Pluckrose & Lindsay
Book Summary: “Where Good Ideas Come From” by Steven Johnson
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: “When Information Came of Age: … Age or Reason 1700-1850” by Daniel Headrick
Book Summary: “The 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: “Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America” by David Hackett Fisher
Book Summary: “Why Europe?: The Rise of the West…” by Jack Goldstone
Article Summary: “Needham Puzzle: Why the Industrial Revolution Did not Originate in China” by Justin Lin
The Ratchet of Technology, a site by Michael Magoon 