An interesting book on why the western world got rich in the 17th and 18th centuries while China, Africa and the Muslim world did not. U of Illinois econ historian Deirdre McCloskey says it is not what we think - innovation and markets - but rather it was simply giving the innovators and entrepreneurs respect! and freedom to operate.
At Amazon: Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World
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