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/)
小学时老师就教导我们写文章黄金法则第一条就是搞清楚读者是谁。A&R这本书的读者究竟是有扎实的经济学基础的学者,还是没学过经济学却有求知欲的普罗大众,还是好奇的高中生,我想他们自己也未必清楚,这必然导致了不同类型的读者对本书截然不同的评价。 有政治经济学基础的人...
评分通不过,可能与一种花的名字有关。 这篇是我们“翻书党人”的月课,刊于我的腾讯【大家】专栏。 我在《一个翻书党人的年度小结2012》中就已经提到过这本书,1111项目的读者在之前就已经读到我这篇了。 请移步阅读:http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_49275b420102efkv.html
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...
#翻书党#墙裂推荐。这本书大气磅礴,系统反驳地理因素论、文化决定论和领导无知论,回应的却是斯密提出的老议题:为什么有些国家富,有些国家穷?答案是制度能否允许人参与分享权力,能否对人产生经济激励,至关重要。中间对中国的分析尽管简洁但力道十足。
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?
评分这书的水平简直就跟中医不相上下。
评分挣扎了很久,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。
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