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Apr. 10th, 2006 08:52 amA talk by Jared Diamond on the natural history of becoming rich, which is mostly concerned with social organization in terms of productivity: why did China, which was the technological leader of the world at the time of the Renaissance, fall behind Europe at the time? Why do small, isolated societies lose technologies? And so on.
(Diamond is the author of Guns, Germs, and Steel, Collapse, and The Third Chimpanzee, all well worth reading.)
(Diamond is the author of Guns, Germs, and Steel, Collapse, and The Third Chimpanzee, all well worth reading.)