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Prisoners of Geography
- Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World
- De: Tim Marshall
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 8 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,877
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,331
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3,308
Maps have a mysterious hold over us. Whether ancient, crumbling parchments or generated by Google, maps tell us things we want to know, not only about our current location or where we are going but about the world in general. And yet, when it comes to geo-politics, much of what we are told is generated by analysts and other experts who have neglected to refer to a map of the place in question.
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It's a Book about Maps! Please provide the Maps!
- De Sherry en 06-19-17
- Prisoners of Geography
- Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World
- De: Tim Marshall
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
it has no maps!
Revisado: 01-09-23
Absolutely incredible that for a book subtitled "Ten maps that explain everything..." there is no pdf attachment with the maps!!. Renders what otherwise might have been a very worthwhile and fascinating audiobook essentially worthless. Come on audible!!
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The Journey of Humanity
- The Origins of Wealth and Inequality
- De: Oded Galor
- Narrado por: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
- Duración: 8 h y 46 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 47
Why are humans the only species to have escaped—only very recently—the subsistence trap, allowing us to enjoy a standard of living that vastly exceeds all others? And why have we progressed so unequally around the world, resulting in the great disparities between nations that exist today? Galor’s gripping narrative explains how technology, population size, and adaptation led to a stunning “phase change” in the human story a mere two hundred years ago.
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promoting innovation and industrial disease
- De Anonymous User en 01-18-24
- The Journey of Humanity
- The Origins of Wealth and Inequality
- De: Oded Galor
- Narrado por: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
Unified Growth Theory elucidated
Revisado: 12-21-22
This book is organized around ideas that form part of the "unified growth theory" themes that have characterized the author's influential academic work, mostly as a growth theorist, Yet Galor has resisted overemphasizing his own research, focusing too narrowly on theory, or taking undue credit. The chapters provide a wide-ranging tour of modern political economy of development and economic history literatures on the determinants of long-run economic growth. The narration is good. This is a vast literature, of course, but this book succeeds in guiding the reader through it and providing a 'unified' (if multifaceted) account of how the world economy was transformed by agricultural and industrial revolutions, how and why economic regions diverged in terms of incomes per capita.
Another reviewer recommended that, instead of reading this book, one should read Diamond's "Guns, Germs, and Steel" or Acemoglu and Robinson's "Why Nations Fail?" instead. I disagree. I"ve read both those books and many more on grand theories of development and divergence. What I'd say is this is a good book to read AFTER you've read those other books (or perhaps the one book you read first to see how the pieces will fit together) because it provides a well-organized synthesis and review of ideas (including going in depth on Diamand and A&R) and it gives you a sense of where the field has moved since those books appeared, plus a few thought-provoking new ideas..
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