{"id":906,"date":"2025-03-07T12:29:33","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T12:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.knowledgesystems.sr\/?post_type=product&#038;p=906"},"modified":"2025-03-07T12:29:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T12:29:34","slug":"why-nations-fail-the-origins-of-power-prosperity-and-poverty","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.knowledgesystems.sr\/?product=why-nations-fail-the-origins-of-power-prosperity-and-poverty","title":{"rendered":"Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\">NEW YORK TIMES<\/span><span class=\"a-text-bold\">\u00a0AND\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\">WALL STREET JOURNAL<\/span><span class=\"a-text-bold\">\u00a0BESTSELLER \u2022\u00a0From two winners of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, \u201cwho have demonstrated the importance of societal institutions for a country\u2019s prosperity\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"a-text-bold\">\u201cA 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\u2019t.\u201d\u2014<\/span><span class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\">The New York Times<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"a-text-bold\">FINALIST:\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\">Financial Times<\/span><span class=\"a-text-bold\">\u00a0and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award \u2022\u00a0ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR:\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\">The Washington Post, Financial Times, The Economist, BusinessWeek, Bloomberg, The Christian Science Monitor, The Plain Dealer<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Why 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\u00a0<span class=\"a-text-italic\">Why Nations Fail<\/span>\u00a0shows, none of these factors is either definitive or destiny.<\/p>\n<p>Drawing 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:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Will China\u2019s economy continue to grow at such a high speed and ultimately overwhelm the West?<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Are America\u2019s best days behind it? 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