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Chargement... Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (original 2012; édition 2013)par Daron Acemoglu (Auteur)
Information sur l'oeuvreWhy Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty par Daron Acemoglu (2012)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. A Long book and at times repetitive, however this book based on several examples try to explain the historical and social reasons behind the poverty and development in the nations. Institutions are the key factor behind the development of a nation. Extractive insititution that extract wealth from the majority to a powerful minority even if they can create wealth it won't last. Inclusive institution, that make include most of the population and create the environment necessary for innovation will create a virtuous circle in those economies that posses them. The theory is simple but powerful, and although not all the process of development of countries can be explained using it, it gives a good start point to understand the dynamics of such nations. There was some things I did not like it, like the shallow treatment of the Latin-American countries. I don't think they took enough space or researched enough to give a good description of the situation. Another thing I did not like about this books is that it is too repetitive and too long at parts. I think the messaged could have been conveyed with much more less prose. In general a good read and a recommended book for those who want to understand more about the historical and political issues behind the development of a nation. ( ) ¿Qué determina que un país sea rico o pobre? ¿Cómo se explica que, en condiciones similares, en algunos países haya hambrunas y en otros no? ¿Qué papel tiene la política en estas cuestiones? Que algunas naciones sean más prósperas que otras, ¿se debe a cuestiones culturales?, ¿a los efectos de la climatología?, ¿a su ubicación geográfica? No, en absoluto. Ninguna cuestión relativa a la prosperidad de un país está relacionada con estos factores, sino que proviene de otro mucho más tangible: la política económica que dictaminan sus dirigentes. Son los líderes de cada país, afirman los reconocidos profesores Daron Acemoglu y James A. Robinson en este libro, quienes determinan con sus políticas la prosperidad de su territorio, y así ha ocurrido en todos los períodos de la historia, como demuestran en este apasionante estudio.
It should be no surprise that countries with those advantages ended up rich and with good institutions, while countries with those disadvantages didn’t. ... The ... weakness is the authors’ resort to assertion unsupported or contradicted by facts. ... The authors’ discussions of what can and can’t be done today to improve conditions in poor countries are thought-provoking and will stimulate debate. Appartient à la série éditorialePrix et récompensesDistinctionsListes notables
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HTML: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 fifteen 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 wo Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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