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Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (1st Edition) by Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson Hardcover, 544 Pages, Published 2012 ISBN-10: 0-307-71921-9 / 0307719219 ISBN-13: 978-0-307-71921-8 / 9780307719218 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 weather, geography? Perhaps ignorance of what the rig |