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/)
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http://goo.gl/yblEb 一个国家的制度若是“汲取性的”,就只会保护那些掠夺人民财产的少数精英的政治和经济权力,所以这个国家必然会沉沦。汲取性的政治制度会支持维护既得利益者的经济制度,不让新参与者加入市场,而特殊利益集团创造出的财富又会去寻求垄断政治权力,使得威...
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...
评分一直到最近兩位作者戴倫.艾塞默魯、詹姆斯.羅賓森的新書《自由的窄廊》出了,才忽然想起之前買的這本《國家為什麼會失敗》還沒看。這本推薦的人很多,批評的當然也不少。這是一個很廣很大,爭議性高的題目,因為導致這個結果的變數太多,其實很難歸納出一套完整的論述去說明...
评分http://goo.gl/yblEb 一个国家的制度若是“汲取性的”,就只会保护那些掠夺人民财产的少数精英的政治和经济权力,所以这个国家必然会沉沦。汲取性的政治制度会支持维护既得利益者的经济制度,不让新参与者加入市场,而特殊利益集团创造出的财富又会去寻求垄断政治权力,使得威...
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Inclusive/extractive
评分啃完了。
评分装大气吹逼,都不知道Acemoglu怎么会写这样的东西
评分Disappointed because the authors mention inclusive vs. extractive institutions so many times without explaining exactly what they are like. God lives in details!
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