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Why Nations Fail
- The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
- Lu par : Dan Woren
- Durée : 17 h et 55 min
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Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine?
Is it culture, the weather, geography? Perhaps ignorance of what the right policies are?
Simply, no. None of these factors is either definitive or destiny. Otherwise, how to explain why Botswana has become one of the fastest growing countries in the world, while other African nations, such as Zimbabwe, the Congo, and Sierra Leone, are mired in poverty and violence?
Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson conclusively show that it is man-made political and economic institutions that underlie economic success (or lack of it). Korea, to take just one of their fascinating examples, is a remarkably homogeneous 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 south forged a society that created incentives, rewarded innovation, and allowed everyone to participate in economic opportunities. The economic success thus spurred was sustained because the government became accountable and responsive to citizens and the great mass of people. Sadly, the people of the north have endured decades of famine, political repression, and very different economic institutions - with no end in sight. The differences between the Koreas is due to the politics that created these completely different institutional trajectories.
Based on 15 years of original research Acemoglu and Robinson marshall extraordinary historical evidence from the Roman Empire, the Mayan city-states, medieval Venice, the Soviet Union, Latin America, England, Europe, the United States, and Africa to build a new theory of political economy with great relevance for the big questions of today, including:
- China has built an authoritarian growth machine. Will it continue to grow at such high speed and overwhelm the West?
- Are America’s best days behind it? Are we moving from a virtuous circle in which efforts by elites to aggrandize power are resisted to a vicious one that enriches and empowers a small minority?
- What is the most effective way to help move billions of people from the rut of poverty to prosperity? More philanthropy from the wealthy nations of the West? Or learning the hard-won lessons of Acemoglu and Robinson’s breakthrough ideas on the interplay between inclusive political and economic institutions?
Why Nations Fail will change the way you look at—and understand—the world.
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"Why Nations Fail is a truly awesome book. Acemoglu and Robinson tackle one of the most important problems in the social sciences - a question that has bedeviled leading thinkers for centuries - and offer an answer that is brilliant in its simplicity and power. A wonderfully readable mix of history, political science, and economics, this book will change the way we think about economic development. Why Nations Fail is a must-read book." (Steven Levitt, co-author of Freakonomics)
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Global3 out of 5 stars
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Interprétation4 out of 5 stars
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- Julien Rechenmann
- 12/10/2024
Too many useless stories
The whole book could have been summarised in half of the time. The content is good but doesn’t go beyond basic concepts.
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Global4 out of 5 stars
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- Laurence
- 24/01/2017
Fascinant mais plusieurs raccourcis
Très bon livre, riche en exemples de divers horizons. Raisonnement parfois entrecoupé de quelques raccourcis réduisant l'aspect persuasif des arguments.
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- Adrian
- 19/07/2024
A lot of history around a simple idea
The book is insightful, if you accept it’s basic thesis on the difference between extractive versus inclusive institutions. It’s a tad too long and full of dates and names that could definitely have been avoided, but it’s still worth the time. At times the writing is very good and quite insightful, so the book more than makes up for its shortcomings.
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- Sylvain Géron
- 09/03/2024
Bravo pour cette exposé, extrêmement clair !
Les causes de la pauvreté n’ont plus de secret… ce livre très méthodiquement décrit comment les nations, par le choix de leurs institutions politiques, puiséconomiques, prennent le chemin de la richesse ou de la pauvreté. Ce livre est clair et explique la situation de tous les pays dans le monde, qu’ils soient sur la pente du déclin ou au contraire sur la voie du succès. Il permet aussi de relativiser les progrès réalisés par les états totalitaires. Ce n’est que temporaire : à bon entendeur salut !
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Global5 out of 5 stars
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- Martin
- 15/09/2022
Worth more than so many thing I learnt at school
I really enjoyed this audio book. J think that everybody should read or listen to it at least once. It’s clear and there are many examples to prove the points. I recommend
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- Michel
- 17/10/2017
A bit too long
The thesis that political and economic institutions are paramount to explain the success of nations, is well defended with documented examples. However, each idea is repeated several times. 5 hours would have been enough to contain all the content.
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- ClinteuR
- 11/02/2024
Condescendent US centric view backed with approximate clouds of unbacked quotes.
A US centeix book with very little, if at all, knowledge of the regions of the world it constantly quotes to belittle it. if you are after a pedantic and uni disciplinary view at global economics, that's your book. I couldn't bring myself to finish it (which is a fairly unique occurence for me)
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- Cassiano Bühler da Silva
- 16/11/2020
Failed attempt to lessen Jared Diamond’s geographic thesis
The authors try to sell the idea that institutions precede economic development and thus that inclusiveness due to “critical junctures” and “the contingent nature of history” (i.e. randomness) divide developed and underdeveloped nations. Also they try hard to belittle geography, technology and crucially the interaction of land, water, climate and technology in the course of economic history. It’s even laughable when they try to state that Nogales Mexico and Nogales US prove that geography is not deterministic: obviously Nogales US and Manhattan or San Francisco US have the same income... obviously complexity of institutions and their inclusivity matter, but they’re not *cause* of economic development but rather *consequence*! The complex interaction of technology and resources (capital, lands, demographic, knowledge, etc) available for societies and their interaction with the environment and geography lead to accumulation and development - and that starts with geography and agriculture historically. Communication and transport are also key, and then complexity of institutions ensues. Their quick account of the history of many countries is top notch though and worth the read; as they try to use history to legitimize their anachronistic and fallacious thesis, they make rather sound historiography in a succinct way, what is actually pretty interesting (even though the thesis is not validated by their good accounting of well established historical facts). It’s only a little funny and anachronistic in some ways when they try to compare pastoralist resource-poor institutions of post-colonial Botswana with the Glorious Revolution of industrializing and commercially connected 1688 Britain... also funny they state that Brazil “broke the mold” in 2010... and then recession, political turmoil and radicalism ensued. Anyway, it’s an interesting read and part of a major discussion about development in the 2000s, so even if I don’t agree with their main points, I’d recommend the read to understand their point of view (even if saying that inclusive political institutions promote subsequent development is a platitude in itself that actually explains not much about how institutions get to become inclusive).
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