Why Nations Fail
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Preface Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15
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All Themes Global Inequality and Economic Growth History and Institutional Change Cycles of Wealth and Poverty Diversity, Pluralism, and Empowerment
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All Characters Porfirio Díaz Bill Gates Sir Arthur Lewis Joseph Mobutu Robert Mugabe Napoleon Bonaparte Shyaam Carlos Slim Siaka Stevens The Whig Party Kwame Nkrumah William III Mao Zedong Deng Xiaoping Franklin D. Roosevelt
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All Terms Absolutism Apartheid The Arab Spring Creative Destruction Critical Juncture Dual Economy Encomienda Extractive Political and Economic Institutions Feudalism First, Second, and Third Estates The French Revolution The Glorious Revolution Historical Contingency Inclusive Political and Economic Institutions The Industrial Revolution The Iron Law of Oligarchy The Meiji Restoration The Neolithic Revolution Pluralism Rule of Law State Centralization Tswana Vicious Circle Virtuous Circle
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All Symbols Nogales The Sierra Leone Railway
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Why Nations Fail

by

Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson

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Nogales

The divided city of Nogales represents the profound economic inequality between nations and the institutional factors driving this inequality. In the first chapter of Why Nations Fail, Acemoglu and Robinson compare how people live…

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The Sierra Leone Railway

The Sierra Leone railway represents how the leaders of extractive institutions prefer to harm their people rather than give up power, as well as how the iron law of oligarchy locks developing countries into poverty…

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