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Why Nations Fail - The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty (Paperback, Main)
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Why Nations Fail - The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty (Paperback, Main)
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List price R355
Loot Price R284
Discovery Miles 2 840
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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 James A. Robinson show that to invest
and prosper, people need to know that if they work hard, they can
make money and actually keep it - and this means sound institutions
that allow virtuous circles of innovation, expansion and peace.
Based on fifteen years of research, and answering the competing
arguments of authors ranging from Max Weber to Jeffrey Sachs and
Jared Diamond, Acemoglu and Robinson step boldly into the territory
of Francis Fukuyama and Ian Morris. They blend economics, politics,
history and current affairs to provide a new, powerful and
persuasive way of understanding wealth and poverty.
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