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Why Nations Fail The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty

Hardcover • 2012 • English • 1. edition

Why Nations Fail The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty

By Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson

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Now 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 ...Show more

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9781846684296

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2012

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1

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Why Nations Fail The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty

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