For those with an interest in economic history, here are some suggestions. Pointer from Tyler Cowen.
On the list, I have reviewed the following:
Gregory Clark, A Farewell to Alms (review)
Findlay & O’Rourke, Power and Plenty: Trade, War, and the World Economy in the Second Millennium (review)
Garett Jones, Hive Mind and Joseph Henrich The Secret of Our Success (discussed in my essay on Cultural Intelligence)
I also have a soon-to-be-published review of Peter Turchin’s War and Peace and War
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I have read enough by and about Mokyr, McCloskey, and Pomeranz to feel that I could hold my own in a conversation about their works. The many other books on the list are not familiar to me.
Springer wants me to pay forty American dollars to read your review of Clark from 2010. I would like to read it, but not that much. Do let us know if you post it or some portion elsewhere, won’t you? Thanks.
A pirated copy can be downloaded from sci-hub.bz or sci-hub.cc.
Search for the review by using its DOI (digital object identifier):
10.1007/s10818-010-9078-5
Just to be clear, “pirated” means not legally obtained.
Alternatively, you can contact your local library, and they will send you a copy through interlibrary loan. That’s legal.