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Tag: Rise of the West

March 17, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The WIERDest People in the World” by Joseph Henrich

May 19, 2020December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World” by Deirdre McCloskey

May 18, 2020December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can’t Explain the Modern World” by Deirdre McCloskey

May 3, 2020December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Power over Peoples: Technology, Environments and Western Imperialism…” by Daniel Headrick

April 22, 2020December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Why Europe?: The Rise of the West…” by Jack Goldstone

April 21, 2020December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: The Making of Europe… 950-1350” by Robert Bartlett

April 21, 2020December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Why did Europe Conquer the World?” by Philip Hoffman

March 31, 2020March 17, 2021 Michael Magoon

Article Summary: “The Early Modern Great Divergence” by Broadberry and Gupta

March 30, 2020December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective” by Angus Maddison

March 29, 2020December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The Birth of Plenty: How the Prosperity of the Modern World was Created” by William J. Bernstein

February 25, 2020December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

February 12, 2020November 20, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Why the West Rules-for Now: The Patterns of History” by Ian Morris

February 5, 2020April 15, 2021 Michael Magoon

Article Summary: “The European Origins of Economic Development” by Easterly and Levine

January 24, 2020November 21, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Why Europe?: The Medieval Origins of Its Special Path” by Michael Mitteraur

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