[ExI] Islamic culture (current) was Religions and violence >

[Keith Henson]

On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 5:00 AM,
<extropy-chat-request at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> I don't know what are Dr Clark's claims, but I would be far from
> suggesting that Western Europe was the first place that experienced the
> phenomenons of increased literacy...

That was a small part of the thesis Dr. Clark presents.  His book is
excellent, but you can get most of the basics from here:

http://www.econ.ucdavis.edu/faculty/gclark/papers/Capitalism%20Genes.pdf

I strongly recommend you read this.  It's not much longer than a day
of Extropian Chat.

Keith