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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讲非洲的部分觉得写得很好,有不少启发,但是就唯一稍微熟悉一点的中国与日本的情况来说,还是觉得也许过于简单化——中国弱日本强,岂是明治维新成功这么轻飘飘的原因能够解释的
评分啃完了。
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。
评分吐槽太多,论证不够。
评分讲非洲的部分觉得写得很好,有不少启发,但是就唯一稍微熟悉一点的中国与日本的情况来说,还是觉得也许过于简单化——中国弱日本强,岂是明治维新成功这么轻飘飘的原因能够解释的
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