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10 reviews
Richard Lynn and Tatu Vanhanen

Washington Summit Publishers, 2006

An economics book with real math!
I am not an economist. I have been frustrated by the continual fuzzy, quasi-analytical approach I have read when reading in this field. Finally, someone "puts the math where their mouth is". This is a fabulous, insightful piece of work. The authors made some, but by no mean reckless, extensions in thought, but backed up by good observations. This is going to be a controversial piece of work due ...

IQ and the Wealth of Nations

39 reviews
Richard Lynn, Tatu Vanhanen

Praeger Publishers, 2002

A dagger in the heart of equalitarians
This book has, not surprisingly, aroused a great deal of controversy. The thesis is fairly simple: I.Q. highly correlates with the wealth (measured either as GNP per capita, or GDP per capita) of a nation. The authors use I.Q. as their independent variable to predict wealth with regression analysis. Most of the scholarly apparatus is confined to the appendices, which makes for a smooth read. ...