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/)
若非相关专业研究,这本书首先不推荐读全本,看下关键章节的论断性语句强化记忆即可,其余皆是作者用于论证其观点的例子。当然,本书的精髓就在于这些纵横穿插古今中外,汪洋恣肆滚滚而来的经典实例,涉及到大量非英语名词,看起来略吃力,故作如是观。 作者开头以美国和墨西...
评分围绕本书主旨的争论其实至少早在英文原版成书前十年就开始了。正如很多评论都提到的,本书两位作者与长期合作伙伴 Simon Johnson (合称 AJR)2001年发表论文[1]以计量手段论证:制度是经济绩效的根本性决定因素,而纬度、气候、资源等则影响甚微。这就直接否定了认为地理等因...
评分讲的不错,但内容也没有很新鲜。反驳了一些其他的理论,然后证明影响国家发展最重要的因素是制度机构。 下面对每章内容粗率的总结下(未完成) Preface Why Egyptians filled Tahrir Square to bring down Hosni Mubarak and what it means for our understanding of the ca...
评分若非相关专业研究,这本书首先不推荐读全本,看下关键章节的论断性语句强化记忆即可,其余皆是作者用于论证其观点的例子。当然,本书的精髓就在于这些纵横穿插古今中外,汪洋恣肆滚滚而来的经典实例,涉及到大量非英语名词,看起来略吃力,故作如是观。 作者开头以美国和墨西...
评分讲的不错,但内容也没有很新鲜。反驳了一些其他的理论,然后证明影响国家发展最重要的因素是制度机构。 下面对每章内容粗率的总结下(未完成) Preface Why Egyptians filled Tahrir Square to bring down Hosni Mubarak and what it means for our understanding of the ca...
挣扎了很久,还是给4星吧。本书的好处在于知识范围够广,总有一款是你不知道的,另外各种hammer一个简化了的核心理念,让你可以记忆深刻。缺点则是一切问题讲得都不够深入、不够细致,另外新意不多。如果不是这样的大家所著,应该就是一部普通的作品吧。
评分四星献给它的厚度!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
评分书的最后大力鞭笞现代化理论,并主张政治制度改革与经济制度改革之间不存在天然因果关系,强调历史的偶然性和制度发展的惯性。但其过分简单的二分分析框架和一个argument纵观世界史的研究方法和现代化理论简直一模一样。
评分畅销书嘛,你懂的。宏大叙事听起来,都蛮像那么回事的,不过本姐姐已经免疫了。God is in details...
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。
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