Books by Carlo M. Cipolla

Cipolla, the late, noted professor of economic history at the University of California, Berkeley, created a vitally important economic model that would allow us to detect, know and neutralise this threat: The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity.

In this work, Cipolla explores the slow but complex process of development that transformed Europe from its relatively weak position in 1000AD into the highly dynamic and powerful society of 1700.