
A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World

The Haves and the Have-Nots: A Brief and Idiosyncratic History of Global Inequality
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This is history’s greatest theme: the metastasis of exchange, specialisation and the invention it has called forth, the ‘creation’ of time.
Matt Ridley • The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves (P.S.)
