Podcast Episodes featuring James A. Robinson

Jared Diamond and James A. Robinson, “Natural Experiments of History” (Harvard UP, 2010)

New Books Network - January 20, 2010 22:18 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 123 ratings
I remember telling my wife, the mathematician, that historians typically work on one time and place their entire careers. If you begin, say, as a historian of Russia in the 1600s (as I did), you are likely to end as a historian of Russia in the 1600s (I didn’t, but that’s another story). “You’ve ...