![]() ![]() This alone would be reason to take notice: a vital topic, top scholars, and a well-written book.īut this is not the half of it. ![]() In this book, they have done you the courtesy of writing a book that while at the intellectual cutting edge is not just readable but engrossing. Mostly, such people write only for other academics. ![]() Acemoğlu and Robinson are intellectual heavyweights of the first rank, the one a professor of economics at MIT, the other a professor of political science at Harvard. The beacon offered by China has been widely interpreted, especially by African elites, as demonstrating the benefits of autocracy.įor anyone remotely interested in these issues Why Nations Fail is a must-read. It has lifted millions out of penury and the country is projected soon to topple America from its position as the world’s largest economy. China’s growth is an economic phenomenon without precedent that has implications both for poverty and geopolitics. The last decade has appeared to offer a new and potent clue: the ascent of China, which is the other fundamental feature of our times. In the 1960s, the dominant explanation was that poor countries lacked capital by the 1980s, it was that they had poor economic policies. Often, the direction of search has been technocratic. Scholars have struggled for decades to find a convincing answer. ![]()
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