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by Oded Galor, 2022
Who uses, recommends or left The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.
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I particularly appreciated The Journey of Humanity because it is an ambitious and deep story about the past tens of thousands of years of economic development that is also well grounded in a growing economics literature into the deep origins of growth
Five Books interview on the best economics books of 2022
2022-12-10·fivebooks.com ↗
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