Because this book is designed for a general audience who doesn’t want to read texts that weigh more than they do, we were forced to skip some topics that might one day be useful to know more about: the design of constitutions, the effects of religion, how culture is influenced by geography, and detailed treatments of economic factors like the effect of six-month transit times on the value of commodities. Economist friends of ours, it seems, would’ve preferred exhaustive analyses of every possible scenario, which we suspect would’ve tried the patience of even the nerdiest of pop-science
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