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November 8, 2021February 2, 2023 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “States and Power in Africa” by Jeffrey Herbst

October 29, 2021November 21, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The Company” by Micklethwait and Woolridge

October 18, 2021November 24, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

October 7, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

September 24, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The Institutional Revolution” by Douglass Allen

September 23, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

July 26, 2021November 21, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

July 26, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

July 20, 2021November 21, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

July 5, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

June 23, 2021November 21, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Cities of Commerce” by Oscar Gelderblom

June 17, 2021November 21, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

June 16, 2021June 16, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

June 3, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

May 21, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

May 18, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

May 6, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

May 5, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

April 26, 2021November 21, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

April 23, 2021November 21, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

March 29, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

January 15, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

January 15, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

April 13, 2020April 15, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

April 1, 2020April 15, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

February 11, 2020December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

February 10, 2020November 21, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

January 25, 2020December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

January 9, 2020November 21, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Why Nations Fail” by Acemoglu and Robinson

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