Why Nations Fail
The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
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- $ 49.900,00
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Descripción editorial
NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER • From two winners of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, “who have demonstrated the importance of societal institutions for a country’s prosperity”
“A wildly ambitious work that hopscotches through history and around the world to answer the very big question of why some countries get rich and others don’t.”—The New York Times
FINALIST: Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, Financial Times, The Economist, BusinessWeek, Bloomberg, The Christian Science Monitor, The Plain Dealer
Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine? Is it culture, the weather, or geography that determines prosperity or poverty? As Why Nations Fail shows, none of these factors is either definitive or destiny.
Drawing on fifteen years of original research, Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson conclusively show that it is our man-made political and economic institutions that underlie economic success (or the lack of it). Korea, to take just one example, is a remarkably homogenous nation, yet the people of North Korea are among the poorest on earth while their brothers and sisters in South Korea are among the richest. The differences between the Koreas is due to the politics that created those two different institutional trajectories. Acemoglu and Robinson marshal extraordinary historical evidence from the Roman Empire, the Mayan city-states, the Soviet Union, the United States, and Africa to build a new theory of political economy with great relevance for the big questions of today, among them:
• Will China’s economy continue to grow at such a high speed and ultimately overwhelm the West?
• Are America’s best days behind it? Are we creating a vicious cycle that enriches and empowers a small minority?
“This book will change the way people think about the wealth and poverty of nations . . . as ambitious as Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel.”—BusinessWeek
Reseñas de clientes
Great history overview
Amazing book, a powerful history journey explaining most of today’s nations’ challenges.
Great book!
One does not need to be an expert on the subject to understand and enjoy this very illustrative book.
Wilson Villarreal - Colombia
Great factical approach to the roots of the economic development of the countries described along the all book. Complementing his view and standpoint within the reality of the past decade it has to be a must do for the authors. A couple of countries decay in extreme political practices changing the overall arrangement of the global economic trade, another countries has fallen within the greed of extreme capitalism with no regrets of the outcomes. Also, it stays short with notion of cyclical behavior of the economies.
The facts of the history are covered with concise and precise way.