Jared Diamond’s new book, The World Until Yesterday, is a macro examination of what Western, educated, industrialized, rich, democratic societies (WEIRD is Diamond’s handy, oft-repeated ...

It was really about the roots of inequality – a question as old as human history itself. Greek and Roman ruins, Mayan sculpture Jared Diamond: Why, since ancient times, have some societies ...

One counterintuitive strain of thought has treated this decision as “the worst mistake in the history of the human race,” as ...

Martin Sieff, Washington Times "An epochal work. Diamond has written a summary of human history that can be accounted, for the time being, as Darwinian in its authority."— Thomas M. Disch ...

Banerjee, Abhijit, and Lakshmi Iyer. "Colonial Land Tenure, Electoral Competition, and Public Goods in India." In Natural Experiments in History, edited by Jared Diamond and James Robinson. Harvard ...