Recently I read The Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley. The author believes that trade is the key to human progress, and the more open it is, the greater the potential for progress. These thoughts about trade have become very helpful for me to
write my paper about statistical methods in trade, since this book describes the socio-economic history of mankind in a popular, but the very interesting way from the angle of the development of "social capital" - people's ability to cooperate.