About the Author
Daron Acemoglu is the Killian Professor of Economics at MIT. He received the John Bates Clark Medal.
http://econ-www.mit.edu/faculty/acemoglu/
James Robinson is a political scientist and economist and the Florence Professor of Government at Harvard University, and a world-renowned expert on Latin America and Africa.
http://scholar.harvard.edu/jrobinson
They are the authors of Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy, which won numerous prizes (http://book.douban.com/subject/1841848/)
发表于2024-05-09
Why Nations Fail 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
不敢说是书评,笔记已经记完了,这篇就算是我的读后感吧。网上捧此书的较多,也有不少批评意见。我想这可能是源于读者对此书的定位不同所致,对我而言:这是一本知识普及书,而非学术书藉,因为它即既缺乏学术性的创新又缺乏学界应有的严谨,但是倘若把它当作知识普及书,则可...
评分http://goo.gl/yblEb 一个国家的制度若是“汲取性的”,就只会保护那些掠夺人民财产的少数精英的政治和经济权力,所以这个国家必然会沉沦。汲取性的政治制度会支持维护既得利益者的经济制度,不让新参与者加入市场,而特殊利益集团创造出的财富又会去寻求垄断政治权力,使得威...
评分第一本完整阅读的非教材英语书,前后读了一年多,从美国到北京再到香港。更多的是长跑般的耐力考验。 或许是作者的教授身份,虽然是非教材,从整体结构上却显示出了极强的英美教材的特点,开头结尾对全书进行总结,前后关系也以第几章作为标注,引用也很清晰。作为电子版,所...
评分小学时老师就教导我们写文章黄金法则第一条就是搞清楚读者是谁。A&R这本书的读者究竟是有扎实的经济学基础的学者,还是没学过经济学却有求知欲的普罗大众,还是好奇的高中生,我想他们自己也未必清楚,这必然导致了不同类型的读者对本书截然不同的评价。 有政治经济学基础的人...
评分围绕本书主旨的争论其实至少早在英文原版成书前十年就开始了。正如很多评论都提到的,本书两位作者与长期合作伙伴 Simon Johnson (合称 AJR)2001年发表论文[1]以计量手段论证:制度是经济绩效的根本性决定因素,而纬度、气候、资源等则影响甚微。这就直接否定了认为地理等因...
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Review
"'You will have three reasons to love this book. It's about national income differences within the modern world, perhaps the biggest problem facing the world today. It's peppered with fascinating stories that will make you a spellbinder at cocktail parties - such as why Botswana is prospering and Sierra Leone isn't. And it's a great read. Like me, you may succumb to reading it in one go, and then you may come back to it again and again.'
(Jared Diamond, Pulitzer-prize-winning author of bestselling books including 'Guns, Germs, and Steel' and 'Collapse')"
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Product Description
This is a provocative new theory of political economy explaining why the world is divided into nations with wildly differing levels of prosperity. Why are some nations more prosperous than others? "Why Nations Fail" sets out to answer this question, with a compelling and elegantly argued new theory: that it is not down to climate, geography or culture, but because of institutions. Drawing on an extraordinary range of contemporary and historical examples, from ancient Rome through the Tudors to modern-day China, leading academics Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson show that to invest and prosper, people need to know that if they work hard, they can make money and actually keep it - and this means sound institutions that allow virtuous circles of innovation, expansion and peace. Based on fifteen years of research, and answering the competing arguments of authors ranging from Max Weber to Jeffrey Sachs and Jared Diamond, Acemoglu and Robinson step boldly into the territory of Francis Fukuyama and Ian Morris. They blend economics, politics, history and current affairs to provide a new, powerful and persuasive way of understanding wealth and poverty. They offer a pragmatic basis for the hope that at 'critical junctures' in history, those mired in poverty can be placed on the path to prosperity - with important consequences for our views on everything from the role of aid to the future of China.
Disappointed because the authors mention inclusive vs. extractive institutions so many times without explaining exactly what they are like. God lives in details!
评分#翻书党#墙裂推荐。这本书大气磅礴,系统反驳地理因素论、文化决定论和领导无知论,回应的却是斯密提出的老议题:为什么有些国家富,有些国家穷?答案是制度能否允许人参与分享权力,能否对人产生经济激励,至关重要。中间对中国的分析尽管简洁但力道十足。
评分挣扎了很久,还是给4星吧。本书的好处在于知识范围够广,总有一款是你不知道的,另外各种hammer一个简化了的核心理念,让你可以记忆深刻。缺点则是一切问题讲得都不够深入、不够细致,另外新意不多。如果不是这样的大家所著,应该就是一部普通的作品吧。
评分书的最后大力鞭笞现代化理论,并主张政治制度改革与经济制度改革之间不存在天然因果关系,强调历史的偶然性和制度发展的惯性。但其过分简单的二分分析框架和一个argument纵观世界史的研究方法和现代化理论简直一模一样。
评分一篇规范、严谨的学术论文,值得Akerlof的溢美之词。回答的problem还是最原始、最根本的经济学问题:为什么有的国家繁荣而有的国家贫穷?从国境线两个城市迥异的经济状况(question)出发,政治和政治制度的重要性被再次强调。中国和其它东亚国家的独特发展路径(榨取式政治制度前提下的经济增长)毫不有损于作者再次印证西方一向推崇的盎格鲁-撒克逊制度优越性的倾向。中间论述部分稍显赘余,但仍无法动摇给它五颗星的冲动。(可以先看中文版http://book.douban.com/subject/21325515/)
Why Nations Fail 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书