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Qu determina que un pa's sea rico o pobre? C mo se explica que, en condiciones similares, en algunos pa ses haya hambrunas y en otros no? Qu papel juega la pol tica en estas cuestiones?

Que algunas naciones sean m's pr speras que otras, se debe a cuestiones culturales?, a los efectos de la climatolog a?, a su ubicaci n geogr fica? No, en absoluto.

Ninguna cuesti n relativa a la prosperidad de un pa's est relacionada con estos factores, sino proviene de otro mucho m's tangible: la pol tica econ mica que dictaminan sus dirigentes.

Son los l deres de cada pa's, afirman los reconocidos profesores Daron Acemoglu y James A. Robinson en este libro, quienes determinan con sus pol ticas la prosperidad de su territorio, y as ha ocurrido en todos los per odos de la historia, como demuestran en este apasionante estudio.

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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 right policies are?

Simply, no. None of these factors is either definitive or destiny. Otherwise, how to explain why Botswana has become one of the fastest growing countries in the world, while other African nations, such as Zimbabwe, the Congo, and Sierra Leone, are mired in poverty and violence?

Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson conclusively show that it is man-made political and economic institutions that underlie economic success (or lack of it). Korea, to take just one of their fascinating examples, is a remarkably homogeneous nation, yet the people of North Korea are among the poorest on earth while their brothers and sisters in South Korea are among the richest. The south forged a society that created incentives, rewarded innovation, and allowed everyone to participate in economic opportunities.

Why Nations Fail will change the way you look at--and understand--the world.