Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers 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 w…
From the authors of the international bestseller Why Nations Fail, a crucial new big-picture framework that answers the question of how liberty flourishes in some states but falls to authoritarianism or anarchy in others--and explains how it can con…
By the authors of the international bestseller Why Nations Fail, based on decades of research, this powerful new big-picture framework explains how some countries develop towards and provide liberty while others fall to despotism, anarchy or asphyxi…
'As enjoyable as it is thought-provoking' Jared Diamond By the authors of the international bestseller Why Nations Fail, based on decades of research, this powerful new big-picture framework explains how some countries develop towards and provide li…
Que determina que un pais sea rico o pobre? Como se explica que, en condiciones similares, en algunos paises haya hambrunas y en otros no? Que papel tiene la politica en estas cuestiones? Que algunas naciones sean mas prosperas que otras, se debe a…
After crashing his car in 1939, Naval Airman Perry Nelson awakens to find the radically different world of 2086, one marked by a United Europe, the destruction of Manhattan island by two helicopters in 2003, and other changes in the economy, legal s…
Kaatavatko kulttuuri, ilmasto vai maantiede maat? Vai kenties tietämättömyys oikeista toimenpiteistä? Ei. Yksikään näistä tekijöistä ei ole ratkaiseva tai kohtalo. Miten siis selitetään se, että Botswanasta on tullut yksi maailman nopeimmin kasvatis…
This wide-ranging book looks at many aspects of Colombia's recent economic history, from foreign trade to fiscal policy. The editors have assembled a who's who of Colombian economic thinkers, including Adolfo Meisel, Roberto Junguito, and Salomon Ka…
La libertad no es el orden natural de la humanidad. En la mayor a de lugares y de pocas, los fuertes han dominado a los d biles y la libertad ha sido aplastada por la fuerza o por las costumbres y las normas. A menudo los Estados no han tenido la su…
Miksi maat kaatuvat? -teoksen tekijät esittelevät tässä teoksessa uuden tavan tarkastella, miksi vapaus kukoistaa joissakin valtioissa, mutta jää muissa itsevaltiuden tai anarkian jalkoihin, ja miten vapaus voi kukoistaa uusista uhista huolimatta. V…
