Authors:

  • James Robinson

Excerpt

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty. James Robinson, March 2012, Book. Publisher's description: "Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Failanswers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine? Is it culture, the weather, geography? Perhaps ignorance of what the right policies are? Simply, no. None of these factors is either definitive or destiny. Otherwise, how to explain why Botswana has become one of the fastest growing countries in the world, while other African nations..." Link