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Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (eBook)

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  • Page Length: 510 pages
  • 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 Why Nations Fail shows, none of these factors is either definitive or destiny.
  • 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.

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Various Digital Retailers have Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty by Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson (eBook) on sale for $1.99 listed below

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Available Retailers:About this Title:
  • Page Length: 510 pages
  • 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 Why Nations Fail shows, none of these factors is either definitive or destiny.
  • 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.

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Rookz
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Have you actually read the book, or are you talking straight out of your behind?
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Golden_Bear
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Isn't lack of reading part of population degenerating
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Real reason : small hats, big problems
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RookzJun 8, 2026 4:12 PM
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Quote from b-t-1 :
The population simply degenerates, and the country collapses. Saved you $2!
Have you actually read the book, or are you talking straight out of your behind?
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AmadiohaJun 8, 2026 4:59 PM
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Quote from b-t-1 :
The population simply degenerates, and the country collapses. Saved you $2!
You're very wrong. Nations prosper because of inclusive institutions and fail because of extractive ones but you have to read the book to understand what the authors actually mean.
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q2nJun 8, 2026 6:07 PM
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Quote from b-t-1 :
The population simply degenerates, and the country collapses. Saved you $2!
TY for the savings (attempt/concern) but I think it's more that longterm success breeds feelings of invincibility, then entitlement, which leads to laziness, then corruption.

Note that pre-corrupt governments never reach success to even begin the failure process.
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DonutsForDBagsJun 8, 2026 7:15 PM
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So timely.

The average length of an empire is 250 years.

Look it up.
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b0rkJun 9, 2026 1:22 AM
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Hard to see the world the same way before and after reading this book
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The population simply degenerates, and the country collapses. Saved you $2!
Isn't lack of reading part of population degenerating
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b-t-1Jun 10, 2026 7:02 AM
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Isn't lack of reading part of population degenerating
Lack of reading VALUABLE information, yes.
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One-Sentence Summary

The central argument of Why Nations Fail is that nations become rich when they develop inclusive political and economic institutions that empower broad segments of society, and they remain poor when elites maintain extractive institutions that concentrate power and wealth in their own hands.
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konoplyaJun 11, 2026 12:32 PM
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Quote from Amadioha :
You're very wrong. Nations prosper because of inclusive institutions and fail because of extractive ones but you have to read the book to understand what the authors actually mean.

Literal lies
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Does this include an Addendum for El Salvador?
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TheSavvyOneJun 11, 2026 2:09 PM
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Quote from The-Mentalist :
One-Sentence Summary

The central argument of Why Nations Fail is that nations become rich when they develop inclusive political and economic institutions that empower broad segments of society, and they remain poor when elites maintain extractive institutions that concentrate power and wealth in their own hands.
Now refer to the historical examples of success to see which segments of the society were included and which were conveniently ignored.
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The-MentalistJun 11, 2026 2:41 PM
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Now refer to the historical examples of success to see which segments of the society were included and which were conveniently ignored.
Yep, I do not agree completely with the authors assertion though. The author completely ignores or dismiss other factors such as culture, race, natural resources, education and people's willingness to succeed and/or follow the laws, and uphold justice in society. Here, the author is simply presenting political atmosphere and institutions. What good are institutions if people themselves are ignorant and don't follow laws and justice for all.
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The population simply degenerates, and the country collapses. Saved you $2!
We're there
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