Physioeconomics: The Basis for Long-Run Economic Growth

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Summary: Makes sense to me
Review: Saw this title on a physics wish list and picked it up. The read is certainly not too technical, though drifts a bit in the math. Hardly racist as a reviewer says, but instead makes perfect sense. Irrepsective of race or geography, economics are affected by external factors which must obey the laws of physics. Data that do not consider this may mislabel economies as underdeveloped. I read Guns, Germs and Steel but that book misses the fundamentals driving humans that Parker seems to have caught.

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Summary: Thinly disguised racism
Review: This book is a kind of technical theory of why Northern countries control all the wealth. I would recommend the book "Guns, Germs and Steel" if you want to really examine the subject of civilization.