Tag: geography
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MRU Development Economics: Guns, Germs, and Steel
This is the next installment in the MRU Development Economics class. Cowen and Tabarrok give an overview of Jared Diamond's influential book, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, which explores the influence of geography on human development over the millennia. [This is a 2015 version of the 2012 version that is no…
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Prosperity: Physical Environment
Over the last five posts, we've briefly looked at the five components of what I'm calling the cycle of prosperity: Technology, Food Supply, Human Capital, Economic Growth and Wealth, and Trade. I identified at least thirteen different types of impacts (arrows A through M) on creating economic prosperity. I intend to demonstrate the organic nature…