My review of Greif, Mokyr and Tabellini’s book Two Paths to Prosperity: Culture and Institutions in China, 1000-2000 has appeared in the Times Literary Supplement. Pdf available here.
Messy versus Tidy
In the Dublin Review of Books, May 29th 2026:
The shadow of Edward Gibbon and Adam Smith hangs over two contemporary efforts to explain what makes nations wealthy and what makes empires decline.
The full article is here.