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Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty

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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 ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Profile Books
Number of pages
464
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
544
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846684302
SKU
V9781846684302
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About Daron Acemoglu
Daron Acemoglu is the Killian Professor of Economics at MIT. He has received the John Bates Clark Medal in 2005 for his work on political economy and was the winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2024 for his work on global inequality. James A. Ronson is the Florence Professor of Government at Harvard University, and a ... Read more

Reviews for Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty
A must-read. Acemoglu and Robinson are intellectual heavyweights of the first rank
Guardian
An important book
New York Times
An intellectually rich book that develops an important thesis with verve
FT
It's a great read. Like me, you may succumb to reading it in one go, and then you may come back to it ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty


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