Why Nations Fail
FROM THE WINNERS OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN ECONOMICS: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty
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4.2 • 35 Ratings
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Publisher Description
BY THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING ECONOMISTS DARON ACEMOGLU & JAMES A. ROBINSON
Shortlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award
Why are some nations more prosperous than others? Why Nations Fail sets out to answer this question, with a compelling and elegantly argued new theory: that it is not down to climate, geography or culture, but because of institutions. Drawing on an extraordinary range of contemporary and historical examples, from ancient Rome through the Tudors to modern-day China, leading academics Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson show that to invest and prosper, people need to know that if they work hard, they can make money and actually keep it - and this means sound institutions that allow virtuous circles of innovation, expansion and peace.
Based on fifteen years of research, and answering the competing arguments of authors ranging from Max Weber to Jeffrey Sachs and Jared Diamond, Acemoglu and Robinson step boldly into the territory of Francis Fukuyama and Ian Morris. They blend economics, politics, history and current affairs to provide a new, powerful and persuasive way of understanding wealth and poverty.
Customer Reviews
Fantastic
Fantastically well researched and totally readable at the same time . Framing the poverty / prosperity divide not with “them and us “ rhetoric, but as just “us” - the human nature in all its shades .
The book show’s the flow of societal entropy to extractive political and economic institutions needs a constant strong swimmer in the other direction.
To avoid the polluted waters of extractive political and economic institutions, I would recommend this book as excellent swimming lesson for every young adult who wishes to dive into these waters .
And ultimately reach something eminently more drinkable.