Joel Mokyr

“And that's essentially the tenor of Joe Hendricks' book called The Weirdest People in which he points this out. That book, I think, has a big influence on us because it really shows in great detail how organizing people by nuclear family creates…”

Why: It shows in great detail how organizing people by nuclear family creates a different set of social organization and culture.

The WEIRDest People in the World by Joseph Patrick Henrich
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“this is sort of widely described and it's fully, you know, the most famous book about that was, of course, Philip Engels' Condition of the Working Class in England, which was largely plagiarized from a whole bunch of doctors living in the Midlands and observing these places.”

Condition of the Working Class in England by Friedrich Engels
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