Why Nations Fail

Name: Why Nations Fail
Author: Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson
ISBN: 9781847654618

by Daron Acemoglu · James A. Robinson

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Shortlisted for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2012. 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 Jam...

First published 2012 544 pages

Category: Economics
Priority: Must-Read
Author works: 2
Editions known: 15

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DDC 330.15 LCC HB-0074.00000000.P65 A28 2012 Creative destructionDeveloping CountriesDeveloping countries, economic policyEconomic anthropologyEconomic aspectsEconomic developmentEconomic historyEconomic policy

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