Tag: Progress and Change
Book Summary: “The Big Ratchet: How Humanity Thrives in the Face of Natural Crisis” by Ruth DeFries
Book Summary: “The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet” by Ramez Naam
Book Summary: “Abundance: The Future Is Better than You Think” by Diamandis and Kotler
Book Summary: “Factfulness: Why Things are Better Than You Think” by Hans Rosling
Book Summary: “Enlightenment Now” by Steven Pinker
Book Summary: “Ten Global Trends Every Smart Person Should Know” by Bailey and Tupy
Book Summary: “Future Perfect: The Case for Progress In a Networked Age” by Steven Johnson
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Book Summary: “A History of World Agriculture” by Mazoyer and Roudart
Book Summary: “Rulers, Religion, and Riches” by Jared Rubin
Book Summary: “Uncontrolled: The Surprising Payoff of Trial-and-Error… ” by Jim Stanzi
Book Summary: “The WIERDest People in the World” by Joseph Henrich
Book Summary: “A Question of Power: Electricity and the Wealth of Nations” by Robert Bryce
Book Summary: “First Farmers” by David Bellwood
Book Summary: “The Box: How the Shipping Container…” by Marc Levinson
Book Summary: “How the Old World Ended: The Anglo-Dutch-American Revolution 1500-1800” by Jonathan Scott
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Book Summary: “Hive Mind: How Your Nation’s IQ Matter More than Your Own” by Garett Jones
Book Summary: “Where Good Ideas Come From” by Steven Johnson
Book Summary: “Emergence: the Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities and Software” 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: “Power to the People: Energy in Europe over the Last Five Centuries” by Kander et al
Book Summary: “Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence…” by Charles Murray
Book Summary: “The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves” by Matt Ridley
Book Summary: “World on Fire” by Amy Chua
Book Summary: “Migration and Culture” by Thomas Sowell
Book Summary: “Conquests and Cultures” by Thomas Sowell
Book Summary: “Why Europe?: The Rise of the West…” by Jack Goldstone
Book Summary: “Replenishing the Earth: The Settler Revolution and the Rise of the Angloworld” by James Belich
Book Summary: The Making of Europe… 950-1350” by Robert Bartlett
Book Summary: “Nature’s Magic: Synergy in Evolution…” by Peter Corning
Book Summary: “Fifty Inventions that Shaped the Modern Economy” by Tim Harford
Book Summary: “Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure” by Tim Harford
Book Summary: “The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge” by Matt Ridley
Book Summary: “Ultrasociety: How 10,000 Years of War Made Humans the Greatest Cooperators…” by Peter Turchin
Book Summary: “The Tyranny of Experts” by William Easterly
Book Summary: “The Birth of Plenty: How the Prosperity of the Modern World was Created” by William J. Bernstein
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