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Why are some nations rich and others poor? Is it culture, the weather, geography? Perhaps ignorance of the right policies? Simply, no. None of these factors is either definitive or destiny. Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson conclusively show that it is man-made political and economic institutions that underlie economic success (or lack of it). Based on fifteen years of original research, Acemoglu and Robinson marshall historical evidence from the...
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * MORE THAN ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD
"A provocative read...There are few tomes that coherently map such broad economic histories as well as Mr. Dalio's. Perhaps more unusually, Mr. Dalio has managed to identify metrics from that history that can be applied to understand today." —Andrew Ross Sorkin, The New York Times
From legendary investor Ray Dalio, author of the #1...
"A provocative read...There are few tomes that coherently map such broad economic histories as well as Mr. Dalio's. Perhaps more unusually, Mr. Dalio has managed to identify metrics from that history that can be applied to understand today." —Andrew Ross Sorkin, The New York Times
From legendary investor Ray Dalio, author of the #1...
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Dutton
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[2022]
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English
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"Why are humans the only species to have escaped - only very recently - the subsistence trap, allowing us to enjoy a standard of living that vastly exceeds all others? And why have we progressed so unequally around the world, resulting in the great disparities between nations that exist today? Immense in scope and packed with astounding connections, Galor's gripping narrative explains how technology, population size, and adaptation led to a stunning...
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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2016.
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English
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"Over the past two centuries or so, capitalism has undergone profound changes--economic cycles that veer from boom to bust--from which it has always emerged transformed and strengthened. Surveying this turbulent history, Paul Mason's Postcapitalism arguesthat we are on the brink of a change so big and so profound that this time capitalism itself, the immensely complex system within which entire societies function, will mutate into something wholly...
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Routledge library editions. Development volume 74
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Routledge
Pub. Date
2011
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English
15) The post-growth project: how the end of economic growth could bring a fairer and happier society
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London Publishing Partnership
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[2014]
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English
