
Tag: Institutions


Book Summary: “The Company” by Micklethwait and Woolridge

Book Summary: “The Sinews of Power: War, Money and the English State, 1688-1783″ by John Brewer

Book Summary: “The Pursuit of Power” by William McNeill

Book Summary: “The Institutional Revolution” by Douglass Allen

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

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

Book Summary: “Guilds, Innovation and the European Economy, 1400-1800” by Epstein and Prak

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

Book Summary: “Rome and China: Comparative Perspectives on Ancient World Empires” by Walter Scheidel

Book Summary: “Cities of Commerce” by Oscar Gelderblom

Book Summary: “Going the Distance: Eurasian Trade and the Rise of the Business Corporation, 1400-1700” by Ron Harris

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

Book Summary: “Military Revolution and Political Change” by Brian Downing

Book Summary: “The Origins of Political Order” by Francis Fukuyama

Book Summary: “Lineages of the Absolutist State” by Perry Anderson

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

Book Summary: “Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World” by Niall Ferguson

Book Summary: “Big Is Beautiful: Debunking the Myth of Small Business” by Atkinson and Lind

Book Summary: “Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956” by Anne Applebaum

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

Book Summary: “Evolution of Human Societies” by Johnson and Earle

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

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

Article Summary: “Biogeography and Long-Run Economic Development” by Olsson and Hibbs

Book Summary: “Why Most Things Fail” by Paul Ormerod

Book Summary: “Violence and Social Orders” by North, Wallis and Weingast

Book Summary: “The Dictator’s Handbook” by Mesquita and Smith
