“The Weirdest People in the World and before that, The Secret of Our Success. And I was just mentioning to you that I remember reading this many many years ago when I was in college,”
Books mentioned in Joseph Henrich — Humans defeated smarter species with cultural evolution
From Dwarkesh Podcast · 2025-03-12
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“The Weirdest People in the World and before that, The Secret of Our Success. And I was just mentioning to you that I remember reading this many many years ago when I was in college,”
“important for humans was invented in Eurasia. And Eurasia, as Jared Diamond famously pointed out, building on other people’s work, it’s the largest continent by far. It has the”
“more easily flow. And there’s a belt, which the historian Ian Morris calls the Lucky Latitudes, which runs from basically southern China all the way through to the Mediterranean. And ideas”
“should actually… I mean, there’s two ways you can interpret The Secret, right? One is, “Oh, look, this is why we should care more about culture” and so forth. Another is just, “Oh, wow, they’re”
“said, “Your work is kinda like Hayek,” I went back and read some Hayek. I did read The Fatal Conceit in graduate school, but aside from that, I didn’t read very much. And then same thing with”
“Adam Smith. I mean, I’ve tackled The Wealth of Nations, and I eventually read The Theory of Moral Sentiments. But it was pretty far into the process. I had picked up on themes they”
“Adam Smith. I mean, I’ve tackled The Wealth of Nations, and I eventually read The Theory of Moral Sentiments. But it was pretty far into the process. I had picked up on themes they”