July 29, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

July 19, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

July 13, 2021February 2, 2023 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Knowledge and Competitive Advantage” by Johann Peter Murmann

July 8, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

June 30, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

June 29, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

June 25, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

June 24, 2021November 21, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

June 22, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

June 4, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

April 5, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Horses at Work: Horses in Industrial America” by Ann Norton Greene

March 22, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “A Culture of Growth” by Joel Mokyr

January 25, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “How the Old World Ended: The Anglo-Dutch-American Revolution 1500-1800” by Jonathan Scott

May 2, 2020November 21, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Transforming the Twentieth Century” by Vaclav Smil

May 1, 2020December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Tools for the Job: A Short History of Machine Tools” by LTC Rolt

April 30, 2020December 27, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The Enlightened Economy: An Economic History of Britain 1700-1850” by Joel Mokyr

April 29, 2020November 21, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World” by Gregory Clark

April 13, 2020April 15, 2021 Michael Magoon

Article Summary: “Needham Puzzle: Why the Industrial Revolution Did not Originate in China” by Justin Lin

February 25, 2020December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary “Escape from Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity” by Walter Scheidel

January 29, 2020March 17, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

January 1, 2020November 21, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Creating the Twentieth Century” by Vaclav Smil