{"product_id":"why-nations-fail-the-origins-of-power-prosperity-and-poverty","title":"Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power  Prosperity  and Poverty","description":"\u003cp\u003eNEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER  From two winners of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences  who have demonstrated the importance of societal institutions for a countrys prosperity  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 dont.The New York Times  FINALIST: Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award  ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post  Financial Times  The Economist  BusinessWeek  Bloomberg  The Christian Science Monitor  The Plain Dealer  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  among them:   Will Chinas economy continue to grow at such a high speed and ultimately overwhelm the West?   Are Americas best days behind it? Are we creating a vicious cycle that enriches and empowers a small minority?  This book will change the way people think about the wealth and poverty of nations . . . as ambitious as Jared Diamonds Guns  Germs  and Steel.BusinessWeek\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44945287249973,"sku":"ByrdShop_0307719219","price":35.27,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780307719218_f0adb37d-fc21-4564-8fbc-742007f836c7.jpg?v=1770662507","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/why-nations-fail-the-origins-of-power-prosperity-and-poverty","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}