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

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: New York Crown Business 2012Description: 529pISBN:
  • 9780307719218
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 330.100000 ACE
Contents:
Table of contents Preface; Why Egyptians filled Tahrir Square to bring down Hosni Mubarak; and what it means for our understanding of the causes of prosperity and poverty; 1. So Close and Yet So Different Nogales, Arizona, and Nogales, Sonora, have the same people, culture, and geography. Why is one rich and one poor; 2. Theories That Don’t Work Poor countries are poor not because of their geographies or cultures, or because their leaders do not know which policies will enrich their citizens; 3. The Making of Prosperity and Poverty How prosperity and poverty are determined by the incentives created by institutions, and how politics determines what institutions a nation has; 4. Small Differences and Critical Junctures: The Weight of History How institutions change through political conflict and how the past shapes the present; 5. “I’ve Seen the Future, and It Works”: Growth Under Extractive Institutions What Stalin, King Shyaam, the Neolithic Revolution, and the Maya city-states all had in common and how this explains why China’s current economic growth cannot last; 6. Drifting Apart How institutions evolve over time, often slowly drifting apart; 7. The Turning Point How a political revolution in 1688 changed institutions in England and led to the Industrial Revolution; 8. Not on Our Turf: Barriers to Development Why the politically powerful in many nations opposed the Industrial Revolution; 9. Reversing Development How European colonialism impoverished large parts of the world; 10. The Diffusion of Prosperity How some parts of the world took different paths to prosperity from that of Britain; 11. The Virtuous Circle How institutions that encourage prosperity create positive feedback; 12. The Vicious Circle How institutions that create poverty generate negative feedback loops and endure; 13. Why Nations Fail Today Institutions, institutions, institutions; 14. Breaking the Mold How a few countries changed their economic trajectory by changing their institutions; 15. Understanding Prosperity and Poverty How the world could have been different and how understanding this can explain why most attempts to combat poverty have failed; Acknowledgments; Bibliographical Essay and Sources; References; Index
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Table of contents
Preface;
Why Egyptians filled Tahrir Square to bring down Hosni Mubarak;
and what it means for our understanding of the causes of prosperity and poverty;
1. So Close and Yet So Different Nogales, Arizona, and Nogales, Sonora, have the same people,
culture, and geography. Why is one rich and one poor;

2. Theories That Don’t Work Poor countries are poor not because of their geographies or cultures, or because their leaders do not know which policies will enrich their citizens;

3. The Making of Prosperity and Poverty How prosperity and poverty are determined by the incentives created by institutions, and how politics determines what institutions a nation has;

4. Small Differences and Critical Junctures: The Weight of History How institutions change through political conflict and how
the past shapes the present;
5. “I’ve Seen the Future, and It Works”: Growth Under Extractive Institutions What Stalin, King Shyaam, the Neolithic Revolution, and the Maya city-states all had in common and how this explains why China’s current economic growth cannot last;

6. Drifting Apart How institutions evolve over time, often slowly drifting apart;
7. The Turning Point How a political revolution in 1688 changed institutions in England and led to the Industrial Revolution;

8. Not on Our Turf: Barriers to Development Why the politically powerful in many nations opposed the Industrial Revolution;

9. Reversing Development How European colonialism impoverished large parts of the world;
10. The Diffusion of Prosperity How some parts of the world took different paths to prosperity from that of Britain;

11. The Virtuous Circle How institutions that encourage prosperity create positive feedback;

12. The Vicious Circle How institutions that create poverty generate negative feedback loops and endure;

13. Why Nations Fail Today Institutions, institutions, institutions;
14. Breaking the Mold How a few countries changed their economic trajectory by changing their institutions;

15. Understanding Prosperity and Poverty How the world could have been different and how understanding this can explain why most attempts to combat poverty have failed;

Acknowledgments;
Bibliographical Essay and Sources;
References;
Index

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