About the Book: More: The 10,000-Year Rise of the World Economy
There are 17 ingredients in a typical tube of toothpaste, from titanium dioxide
to xanthum gum, and thatand's not counting the tube. Everything had to come from
somewhere and someone had to bring it all together. The humblest household
product reveals a web of enterprise that stretches around the globe.More is the
story of how we spun that web. It begins with the earliest glimmerings of
long-distance trade - obsidian blades that made their way from what is now
Turkey to the Iran-Iraq border 7,000 years before Christ - and ends with the
consequences of