Prosperity, autocracy and democracy

Reuter’s Chrystia Freeland discusses the forthcoming book by colleagues Acemoglu and Robinson “Why Nations Fall”. Obviously worth your time reading the article and browsing their website. Make sure that you also read the comment’s after Freeland’s article. The end result, and I copy from their website, is unsurprising: “Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson conclusively show that it is man-made political and economic institutions that underlie economic success (or the lack of it).”

 

You might benefit if you read this work along with Thucydides’ history since (and I quote Wikipedia) “He has also been called the father of the school of political realism, which views the relations between nations as based on might rather than right. His text is still studied at advanced military colleges worldwide, and the Melian dialogue remains a seminal work of international relations theory.”