Ryan Mazzola’s Reviews > How Economics Explains the World: A Short History of Humanity > Status Update

super interesting and fine for popular consumption. But that’s also sort of a problem. Because this book tries to cover so much in so few pages, it jumps around from topic to topic and sort of makes the claim that “oh yeah we know all these things because.. ECONOMICS” when much of the causality established is based on our present understanding of economics. It’s a circular logic and neglects centuries of