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The Invention of Power by Bruno de Mesquita.
I read his first book - The Dictator's Handbook* in undergrad and remember enjoying it. So I thought I'd dip my toe in the "Great Divergence" field again.
I dunno...not that far in but the tale seems pretty...standard for anyone who's vaguely familiar with the genre - competition between the Pope and secular rulers is why the West is the West. But he promises some empirical meat (he's a political scientist, not a historian) to justify tracing the divergence point to the Concordat of Worms specifically so I'm working towards that.
* Summarized by CGPGrey here
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