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

Why Nations Fail

The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

2012 • 529 pages

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December 7, 2024

Education education education

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March 28, 2021

gave it five stars because it just checks all the boxes for me- it has history, amateur level economics, and some psychology. I really enjoyed it and got new perspective on politics

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December 13, 2019

You could summarize this (and answer the question in the title) into: due to extractive political and (subsequently) economical institutions. But then you would miss most of the fun in reading thorough examples and detailed rhetoric of why that is the case.

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