Review
"'You will have three reasons to love this book. It's about national income differences within the modern world, perhaps the biggest problem facing the world today. It's peppered with fascinating stories that will make you a spellbinder at cocktail parties - such as why Botswana is prospering and Sierra Leone isn't. And it's a great read. Like me, you may succumb to reading it in one go, and then you may come back to it again and again.'
(Jared Diamond, Pulitzer-prize-winning author of bestselling books including 'Guns, Germs, and Steel' and 'Collapse')"
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Product Description
This is a provocative new theory of political economy explaining why the world is divided into nations with wildly differing levels of prosperity. Why are some nations more prosperous than others? "Why Nations Fail" sets out to answer this question, with a compelling and elegantly argued new theory: that it is not down to climate, geography or culture, but because of institutions. Drawing on an extraordinary range of contemporary and historical examples, from ancient Rome through the Tudors to modern-day China, leading academics Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson show that to invest and prosper, people need to know that if they work hard, they can make money and actually keep it - and this means sound institutions that allow virtuous circles of innovation, expansion and peace. Based on fifteen years of research, and answering the competing arguments of authors ranging from Max Weber to Jeffrey Sachs and Jared Diamond, Acemoglu and Robinson step boldly into the territory of Francis Fukuyama and Ian Morris. They blend economics, politics, history and current affairs to provide a new, powerful and persuasive way of understanding wealth and poverty. They offer a pragmatic basis for the hope that at 'critical junctures' in history, those mired in poverty can be placed on the path to prosperity - with important consequences for our views on everything from the role of aid to the future of China.
About the Author
Daron Acemoglu is the Killian Professor of Economics at MIT. He received the John Bates Clark Medal.
http://econ-www.mit.edu/faculty/acemoglu/
James Robinson is a political scientist and economist and the Florence Professor of Government at Harvard University, and a world-renowned expert on Latin America and Africa.
http://scholar.harvard.edu/jrobinson
They are the authors of Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy, which won numerous prizes (http://book.douban.com/subject/1841848/)
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评分这个书是看到任志强提起过,后来翻看了一下英文版,里面讲到挺多有关制度的问题,诸如这些观点:一个国家只要采取了攫取性政治制度和攫取性经济制度,那么注定会失败,发达的国家都是采取了包容性的制度。我想这个书出版简体版本怕是遥遥无期,没想到时隔两年就有引进大...
评分不敢说是书评,笔记已经记完了,这篇就算是我的读后感吧。网上捧此书的较多,也有不少批评意见。我想这可能是源于读者对此书的定位不同所致,对我而言:这是一本知识普及书,而非学术书藉,因为它即既缺乏学术性的创新又缺乏学界应有的严谨,但是倘若把它当作知识普及书,则可...
评分非虚构类,多细节,总有一点你所不知道的。关于版本选择问题,我自己打印的台版无删节版,这个版本也是众多网友共同努力制作而成的,在此向那些热心网友表示感谢。中文版肯定有删节,比如,第一章讲的是阿拉伯之春,估计肯定要被和谐。关于英语原版,我推荐将mobi格式转化成wor...
四星献给它的厚度!来回来去来回来去来回来去地说几个既不深刻也不新颖还以偏概全的观点。。。不过通过阅读此书我增长了一些亚非拉历史和地理姿势
评分对inclusive/extractive的定义不清,有循环论证之感。对国家成功失败的定义过于单一、归因过于简单。由经济学家来讲历史感觉略牵强,证据比较散。
评分弃书。本来对这书有极高的期待,毕竟作者是MIT经济学教授,但看了大半本后发现只剩广度可以夸了。除了知道了很多历史故事,补足了我对Chichen Itza的认知之外,几乎没有给我任何站得住脚的观点,更不要说洞见。 把不同国家简单粗暴地在政治制度和经济体系划分为Extractive和Inclusive,然后就开始cherry-picking讲extractive的政治体系如何阻碍经济发展,如何就算取得一定成就也不可能持续发展。就算我某种程度上同意部分观点,但一本试图解释为什么一些国家经济失败的书,除了制度之外,完全不去分析资源、历史遗留原因、外部环境、时代因素等其他重要变量,要人怎么信服? 社科这种蕴含庞大产量、复杂模型的学问,为什么要摆出一副只有你一家的解释是唯一真理的姿态?这不是找锤吗?
评分一篇规范、严谨的学术论文,值得Akerlof的溢美之词。回答的problem还是最原始、最根本的经济学问题:为什么有的国家繁荣而有的国家贫穷?从国境线两个城市迥异的经济状况(question)出发,政治和政治制度的重要性被再次强调。中国和其它东亚国家的独特发展路径(榨取式政治制度前提下的经济增长)毫不有损于作者再次印证西方一向推崇的盎格鲁-撒克逊制度优越性的倾向。中间论述部分稍显赘余,但仍无法动摇给它五颗星的冲动。(可以先看中文版http://book.douban.com/subject/21325515/)
评分写总结性专著的反面典型。想通俗结果写得罗嗦+无说服力,白瞎了结论背后那么多牛逼的论文。看在观点好和背后的论文牛逼,勉强给个4星。
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