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Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu & James A. Robinson - Book Summary
“Institutions, Not Geography: Why Some Nations Thrive and Others Stay Trapped”
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Title: Why Nations Fail
Author: Daron Acemoglu & James A. Robinson
Category: Politics & Current Affairs, Economics & Global Markets
Why do some countries end up rich while others stay poor? Sam and Sophie open the episode with that question, because it's the one Why Nations Fail spends 500 pages answering.
They walk through the three explanations the authors knock down first —…
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