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 2012544 pages

330.15

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

Classification

Dewey (DDC): 330.15338.9330
Library of Congress (LCC): HB0074.P65 A28 2012HB0099.50000000HB0074.P65A28 2012HB0074.P65A28 2013

Subjects

Creative destructionDeveloping CountriesDeveloping countries, economic policyEconomic anthropologyEconomic aspectsEconomic developmentEconomic historyEconomic policyEconomicsEconomics, political aspectsFailed statesHistory

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ISBN 9781847654618English

DATE DUE

First published2012

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