{"product_id":"why-nations-fail-the-origins-of-power-prosperity-and-poverty-paperback","title":"Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDaron Acemoglu\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJames A. Robinson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e AND \u003ci\u003eWALL STREET JOURNAL\u003c\/i\u003e 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\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"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.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFINALIST: \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award - ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post, Financial Times, The Economist, BusinessWeek, Bloomberg, The Christian Science Monitor, The Plain Dealer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhy 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 \u003ci\u003eWhy Nations Fail\u003c\/i\u003e shows, none of these factors is either definitive or destiny. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing 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: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e- Will China's economy continue to grow at such a high speed and ultimately overwhelm the West? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e- Are America's best days behind it? Are we creating a vicious cycle that enriches and empowers a small minority?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"This book will change the way people think about the wealth and poverty of nations . . . as ambitious as Jared Diamond's \u003ci\u003eGuns, Germs, and Steel\u003c\/i\u003e.\"--\u003ci\u003eBusinessWeek\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDaron Acemoglu \u003c\/b\u003eis the Killian Professor of Economics at MIT. In 2005 he received the John Bates Clark Medal awarded to economists under forty judged to have made the most significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge. He is also the co-author of \u003ci\u003eThe Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames A. Robinson, \u003c\/b\u003e a political scientist and an economist, is the David Florence Professor of Government at Harvard University. A world-renowned expert on Latin America and Africa, he has worked in Botswana, Mauritius, Sierra Leone, and South Africa. He is also the co-author of \u003ci\u003eThe Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty.\u003c\/i\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 544\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.15 x 8 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 17, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52556504203557,"sku":"9780307719225","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0987\/2487\/2485\/files\/YZdEnxUYiE9780307719225.webp?v=1781374459","url":"https:\/\/c4lhome.com\/products\/why-nations-fail-the-origins-of-power-prosperity-and-poverty-paperback","provider":" Companion for Life Five Home","version":"1.0","type":"link"}