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Name: Why Nations Fail
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Author: Daron Acemoglu

Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine? It's not culture, the weather, or geography that determines prosperity or poverty. The differences between the Koreas is due to the politics that created those two different institutional trajectories. Acemoglu and Robinson, drawing on fifteen years of original research, build a new theory of political economy with great relevance for the big questions of today, including the future of China's economy and America's.

First publish date: 2012

Genre: Business & Economics/Finance

Authors: Daron Acemoglu

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