![]() ![]() You control for a lot of factors statistically, and it is still seems to be the case that what Jared Diamond presented very qualitatively-that the earliness of agriculture really matters-does hold when you do statistical analyses.” Read more. Researchers went and got the date for the earliest beginning of agriculture in different parts of the world, and then used that to predict modern economic development-GDP per capita in the year 2000. Jared Diamond is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel, which was named one of TIME’s best non-fiction books of all time, the number one international bestseller Collapse and most recently The World Until Yesterday. ![]() So, for example, there’s a number of economic studies now supporting Diamond’s basic thesis. It’s driven economists to get better data to test the theory. People took it seriously and fully engaged with it. Similar recommendations Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World Self Reliance The Defining Decade Becoming Sapiens The Snowball Playing to Win. ![]() “The book is a masterpiece in terms of integrating a vast range of material from different disciplines, material on language, archaeology, comparative bio-geography, with also lots of his own ethnographic field studies peppered in there…whether you think it is right or wrong, it’s spurred an incredible amount of research. Who is Alex Why did Alex love this book Nathaniels Nutmeg. From the list on for getting a grip on our reality. ![]()
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