7 Top history books like Unified Growth Theory by Oded Galor

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Unified Growth Theory

By: Oded Galor

4.17

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

For most of the vast span of human history, economic growth was all but nonexistent. Then, about tw…

"Variations in entrepreneurial spirit among individuals are modeled as differences in the degree of risk aversion with respect to consumption."

-Oded Galor, Unified Growth Theory

"Variations in entrepreneurial spirit among individuals are modeled as differences in the degree of risk aversion with respect to consumption."

-Oded Galor, Unified Growth Theory

If you liked the history plot in Unified Growth Theory by Oded Galor , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. Napoleon: A Life

By: Andrew Roberts

4.23

Format: 976 pages, Paperback

The definitive biography of the great soldier-statesman by the New York Times bestselling author of… read more

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  • history
"I am very happy to see the enemy wish to avoid our coming to him. – Napoleon"

-Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life

"I have beaten the Russian and Austrian army commanded by the two emperors. I am a little tired."

-Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life

"His constant references to the ancient world have the effect of giving ordinary soldiers a sense of their lives."

-Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life

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2. Green Eggs and Ham

By: Dr. Seuss

4.00

Format: 412 pages, Hardcover

"Do you like green eggs and ham?" asks Sam-I-am in this Beginner Book by Dr. Seuss. In a house or w… read more

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3. Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

By: Carol S. Dweck

4.00

Format: 96 pages,

Now updated with new research -- the book that has changed millions of lives. After decades of rese… read more

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4. The Most Important Thing: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor

By: Howard Marks

3.81

Format: 75 pages, Hardcover

"This is that rarity, a useful book."--Warren Buffett Howard Marks, the chairman and cofounder of O… read more

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5. The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

By: Peter Frankopan

3.77

Format: None pages,

From the rise and fall of empires in China, Persia, and Rome itself to the spread of Buddhism and a… read more

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6. Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

By: David Graeber

4.03

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling writer David Graeber, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfi… read more

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  • economics
"Economies around the world have, increasingly, become vast engines for producing nonsense."

-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

"Bullshit jobs regularly induce feelings of hopelessness, depression, and self-loathing. They are forms of spiritual violence directed at the essence of what it means to be a human being."

-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

"What we are witnessing is the rise of those forms of popular culture that office workers can produce and consume during the scattered, furtive shards of time they have at their disposal in workplaces…"

-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

"A fact-finding commission is a way of telling the public that the government is doing something it is not. But a large corporations will behave exactly the same way, if, say, there are revealed to be…"

-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

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7. Elon Musk

By: Walter Isaacson

4.40

Format: 688 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate… read more

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  • history
"[Musk] concluded that Trump as president was no different than he was as a candidate. The buffoonery was not just an act. "Trump might be one of the world’s best bullshitters ever," he says. "Like my…"

-Walter Isaacson, Elon Musk

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8. The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

By: Siddhartha Mukherjee

4.28

Format: 473 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2023 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences and the 2023 Chautauq… read more

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9. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

By: David Graeber

4.20

Format: 692 pages, Hardcover

A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions abo… read more

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  • economics
"Humans - from this other perspective, which is just as extreme in its own way - are at best an arbitrary constellation of cultural elements, perhaps assembled according to some prevailing spirit, cod…"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

"One might ask, how could that most basic element of all human freedoms, the freedom to make promises and commitments and thus build relationships, be turned into its very opposite: into peonage, serf…"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

"There is an obvious objection to evolutionary models which assume that our strongest social ties are based on close biological kinship: many humans just don’t like their families very much. And this …"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

"In the Middle Ages, most people in other parts of the world who actually knew anything about northern Europe at all considered it an obscure and uninviting backwater full of religious fanatics who, a…"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

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10. Capital and Ideology

By: Thomas Piketty

4.28

Format: 1104 pages, Hardcover

The epic successor to one of the most important books of the century: at once a retelling of global… read more

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  • history
  • economics
"Change comes when the short-term logic of events, intersects with the long term evolution of ideas."

-Thomas Piketty, Capital and Ideology

"Every human society must justify its inequalities: unless reasons for them are found, the whole political and social edifice stands in danger of collapse."

-Thomas Piketty, Capital and Ideology

"Billionaires think that anything goes, are enamored of geoengineering, and detest nothing so much as simple but unpleasant solutions (such as paying taxes and living quietly)."

-Thomas Piketty, Capital and Ideology

"We find the same pattern in virtually every region of the world: the identity cleavage deepened and conflicts over boundaries intensified while the wealth cleavage weakened and criticism of wealth be…"

-Thomas Piketty, Capital and Ideology

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11. A Brief History of Equality

By: Thomas Piketty

4.00

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The world's leading economist of inequality presents a short but sweeping and surprisingly optimist… read more

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  • history
  • economics
"The idea that each country–or worse yet–each person in each country is individually responsible for its production and its wealth, makes little sense from a historical point of view. All wealth is co…"

-Thomas Piketty, A Brief History of Equality

"The growth of wealth in the Western world, like that in Japan or China, has long been based on the international division of labor and the feverish exploitation of natural and human resources worldwi…"

-Thomas Piketty, A Brief History of Equality

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12. Unified Growth Theory

By: Oded Galor

4.17

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

For most of the vast span of human history, economic growth was all but nonexistent. Then, about tw… read more

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  • history
  • economics
"Variations in entrepreneurial spirit among individuals are modeled as differences in the degree of risk aversion with respect to consumption."

-Oded Galor, Unified Growth Theory

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