Why Nations Fail |
Subtitle:
The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
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Book Category:
Biography & Autobiography > General
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Author:
ACEMOGLU, DARON
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Editor::
Roger Scholl
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Binding:
Paperback
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ISBN 10:
0307719227
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ISBN 13:
9780307719225
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Price:
USD 17.00
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Publication Year:
2013
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Publisher Info
Cristi Navarro,
Penguin Random House,375 Hudson Street,
New York ,
New York - 10014,USA
Web: www.penguinrandomhouse.com Inquiry
NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER Finalist for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award Picked as one of the best books of the year by the Washington Post, the Financial Times, The Economist, BusinessWeek, Bloomberg, the Christian Science Monitor, the Plain Dealer 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: