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/)
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')"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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.
小学时老师就教导我们写文章黄金法则第一条就是搞清楚读者是谁。A&R这本书的读者究竟是有扎实的经济学基础的学者,还是没学过经济学却有求知欲的普罗大众,还是好奇的高中生,我想他们自己也未必清楚,这必然导致了不同类型的读者对本书截然不同的评价。 有政治经济学基础的人...
评分知道这本书是在一次经济法研讨课上,出于好奇泛泛试读了一遍。全书论据庞杂繁复,如果仔细推敲不一定都站得住脚。但也正是由于作者的旁征博引,书中闪光之点频现。假如我是一位生活在作者国度亦或接受英美文化教育的读者,我想这本书带来的冲击力的的确确让人无力反驳又感受到...
评分 评分 评分http://goo.gl/yblEb 一个国家的制度若是“汲取性的”,就只会保护那些掠夺人民财产的少数精英的政治和经济权力,所以这个国家必然会沉沦。汲取性的政治制度会支持维护既得利益者的经济制度,不让新参与者加入市场,而特殊利益集团创造出的财富又会去寻求垄断政治权力,使得威...
这书的水平简直就跟中医不相上下。
评分四星献给它的厚度!来回来去来回来去来回来去地说几个既不深刻也不新颖还以偏概全的观点。。。不过通过阅读此书我增长了一些亚非拉历史和地理姿势
评分对inclusive/extractive的定义不清,有循环论证之感。对国家成功失败的定义过于单一、归因过于简单。由经济学家来讲历史感觉略牵强,证据比较散。
评分写总结性专著的反面典型。想通俗结果写得罗嗦+无说服力,白瞎了结论背后那么多牛逼的论文。看在观点好和背后的论文牛逼,勉强给个4星。
评分作者是MIT的经济学家和哈佛的政治学家,挺厚一本,刚拿到手的时候肃然起敬。结果翻看了没两个晚上感觉这书纯粹是文人思维啊。再上网看看书评,除了Tomas Friedman 这个老实人没说什么坏话之外,很多人指出此书的各种失误和错误。果断放弃。
本站所有内容均为互联网搜索引擎提供的公开搜索信息,本站不存储任何数据与内容,任何内容与数据均与本站无关,如有需要请联系相关搜索引擎包括但不限于百度,google,bing,sogou 等
© 2025 book.wenda123.org All Rights Reserved. 图书目录大全 版权所有