Episode · Freakonomics Radio · 2022-08-04
Books mentioned on The U.S. Is Just Different — So Let’s Stop Pretending We’re Not (Replay) | Episode 469
Stephen Dubner discussed The Secret of Our Success by Joseph Henrich and The WEIRDest People in the World by Joseph Henrich.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Secret of Our Success
The Secret of Our Success by Joseph Henrich explores how human cultural evolution and cooperation, rather than raw individual intelligence alone, drove our species to dominate the globe.
Discussed“in 2016 Henrik published a book called The Secret of our success how culture is driving human evolution domesticating our species and making us smarter”
Where to get it
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The WEIRDest People in the World
The WEIRDest People in the World by Joseph Henrich is an anthropological and psychological exploration of how Western populations became psychologically unique compared to the rest of the world.
Discussed“Henrik recently followed that book with another one called the weirdest people in the world how the West became psychologically peculiar and particularly prosperous”
Where to get it
