The latest Foreign Affairs carries a review by Timur Kuran of Ian Morris's Why The West Rules – For Now. The review focuses on organisational capabilities, and how these diverged between east and west in the late 18th century. I haven't yet read Morris's book, but am reminded by the review that I also need to add Timur Kuran's own book, Islam and Mammon, to my in-pile. It was glowingly recommended to me by Bob Shiller, who described it as one of the most important books he has read lately.