Comments on: The Spoiled Children of Capitalism http://paul-m-jones.com/archives/772?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-spoiled-children-of-capitalism It's not enough to be smart; you have to actually know things. Wed, 16 May 2012 17:27:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: pmjones http://paul-m-jones.com/archives/772/comment-page-1#comment-413626 pmjones Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:36:22 +0000 http://paul-m-jones.com/?p=772#comment-413626 I read "Guns Germs and Steel" years ago -- it's good stuff. I find it now to be a little too much "ex-post" storytelling. My suggestion is to follow up with "The Mystery of Capital" by Hernando de Soto: http://www.amazon.com/Mystery-Capital-Capitalism-Triumphs-Everywhere/dp/0465016154/ I read “Guns Germs and Steel” years ago — it’s good stuff. I find it now to be a little too much “ex-post” storytelling. My suggestion is to follow up with “The Mystery of Capital” by Hernando de Soto:

http://www.amazon.com/Mystery-Capital-Capitalism-Triumphs-Everywhere/dp/0465016154/

]]> By: Steve Clay http://paul-m-jones.com/archives/772/comment-page-1#comment-413625 Steve Clay Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:25:13 +0000 http://paul-m-jones.com/?p=772#comment-413625 A bit unrelated, but you might check out the PBS doc based on Germs, Guns, and Steel. It's overly-repetitive (supposedly the book is much meatier), but it gives a compelling (partial) explanation of historical world inequality (before economics played such a large part). It's easier to build intellectual and monetary wealth up over generations when you don't have to spend most of your time securing food and fighting Malaria and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congo_Free_State" rel="nofollow">Europeans with guns</a>. The Amazon <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Guns-Germs-Steel-Fates-Societies/product-reviews/0393061310/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1" rel="nofollow">comments</a> may give a decent overview. A bit unrelated, but you might check out the PBS doc based on Germs, Guns, and Steel. It’s overly-repetitive (supposedly the book is much meatier), but it gives a compelling (partial) explanation of historical world inequality (before economics played such a large part). It’s easier to build intellectual and monetary wealth up over generations when you don’t have to spend most of your time securing food and fighting Malaria and Europeans with guns. The Amazon comments may give a decent overview.

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