About the Book: Why Nations Fail: The Origins Of Power Prosperityand Poverty
Shortlisted for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year
Award 2012. 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