Diamond's famous economic history tome aims to explain the major economic and historical forces that have created the modern world.
Elias Papaionnou, associate professor of economics said:
A thought-provoking book describing the evolution of mankind from the Neolithic Revolution till today. A beautiful economic and political history book, without much of history, but full of biology, anthropology, archaeology, and bits of economics.
Even if one disagrees with parts of the argument, Jared Diamond pushes the reader to think; like my four-year old son, you will keep saying “why?”. What more can an economics book offer?