{"product_id":"why-nations-fail-the-origins-of-power-prosperity-and-poverty-by-daron-acemoglu-and-james-a-robinson","title":"Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty by Daron Acemoglu and James A Robinson","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eAND\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eWALL STREET JOURNAL\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eBESTSELLER - From two winners of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, \"who have demonstrated the importance of societal institutions for a country's prosperity\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\"A 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't.\"--\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFINALIST:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award - ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Washington Post, Financial Times, The Economist, BusinessWeek, Bloomberg, The Christian Science Monitor, The Plain Dealer\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhy 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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWhy Nations Fail\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e shows, none of these factors is either definitive or destiny.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDrawing 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:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e- Will China's economy continue to grow at such a high speed and ultimately overwhelm the West?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e- Are America's best days behind it? Are we creating a vicious cycle that enriches and empowers a small minority?\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\"This book will change the way people think about the wealth and poverty of nations . . . as ambitious as Jared Diamond's\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eGuns, Germs, and Steel\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e.\"--\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eBusinessWeek\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50303465947356,"sku":"15627","price":14.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0782\/9949\/6668\/files\/91j9vfc0GmL._SL1500Why_Nations_Fail_The_Origins_of_Power_Prosperity_and_Poverty_by_Daron_Acemoglu_and_James_A_Robinson.jpg?v=1779152647","url":"https:\/\/www.evermorebooks.co.nz\/products\/why-nations-fail-the-origins-of-power-prosperity-and-poverty-by-daron-acemoglu-and-james-a-robinson","provider":"Evermore Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}