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rcthomas 's review for:
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
by Daron Acemoğlu, James A. Robinson
Acemoglu and Robinson present a very interesting account of state development in the West and the rest. The book spends a lot of time discounting previously accepted or hypothesized theories of economic development (or the lack there of) across the world. For those readers interested in developmental economics, this is probably a good read to start with.