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Why Nations Fail

The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

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Why Nations Fail

Von: Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
Gesprochen von: Dan Woren
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NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER • From two winners of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, “who have demonstrated the importance of societal institutions for a country’s prosperity”

“A wildly ambitious work that hopscotches through history and around the world to answer the very big question of why some countries get rich and others don’t.”—The New York Times

FINALIST: Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, Financial Times, The Economist, BusinessWeek, Bloomberg, The Christian Science Monitor, The Plain Dealer

Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine? Is it culture, the weather, or geography that determines prosperity or poverty? As Why Nations Failshows, none of these factors is either definitive or destiny.
 
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:
 
• Will China’s economy continue to grow at such a high speed and ultimately overwhelm the West?
 
• Are America’s best days behind it? Are we creating a vicious cycle that enriches and empowers a small minority?

*Includes a downloadable PDF of maps from the book

“This book will change the way people think about the wealth and poverty of nations . . . as ambitious as Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel.”—BusinessWeek

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Interesting book with a lot of good points and a strong thesis.

The speaker does well, though some pronounciation is a bit dodgy. Though with that broad scope it is to be expected.

My only real problem is that, those points even with most of the examples could have been in about 50-70% of the actual length.

interesting, but a bit too long

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Really interesting.

It shows very impressive why it is worth to fight for inclusive political and economic institutions. Furthermore it states clearly that political and economic institutions can't stay inclusive if one side isn't inclusive.

Perfect explanation of the world's current different welfare

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Learned a lot about the history of economy of different nations. It was eye-opening in many regards. Even though it might not be the full picture, I am convinced that the effects described in the book always play an important role.

(Almost) full picture of prosperity and decline

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Nice analysis of countries which are successful and those which are not, painting up a picture of commons.

One of the important ones

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Listened during runs. Got smarter and faster. Must read for those who hold racist views on society.

Extremely insightful

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