Monthly Archives: January, 2015
The Coming Anarchy (Robert Kaplan)
This is an interesting book, because it’s a book of (pessimistic) analysis and predictions made long enough ago (mid- to late-1990s) that some judgment...
War Before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage (Lawrence Keeley)
Anthropology and ethnography are definitely not areas about which I know much, so it is hard for me to tell where this book fits...
A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World (Gregory Clark)
This book is part of the sub-genre that might be titled, if being honest, “Why Are All Today’s Rich People Europeans, Actually or Honorary”?...