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2025-01-22
Why Nations Fail 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书
《国家为什么会失败》英文版于2012年3月出版,立刻引起广泛关注,被认为是政治经济学领域的一本重要著作。这自然与两位作者的声名有直接关系。两位作者,一位是麻省理工学院的经济学教授德隆·阿西莫格鲁,另一位则是哈佛大学政府学教授詹姆斯·罗宾逊。两人都任教于名校,虽...
评分通不过,可能与一种花的名字有关。 这篇是我们“翻书党人”的月课,刊于我的腾讯【大家】专栏。 我在《一个翻书党人的年度小结2012》中就已经提到过这本书,1111项目的读者在之前就已经读到我这篇了。 请移步阅读:http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_49275b420102efkv.html
评分若非相关专业研究,这本书首先不推荐读全本,看下关键章节的论断性语句强化记忆即可,其余皆是作者用于论证其观点的例子。当然,本书的精髓就在于这些纵横穿插古今中外,汪洋恣肆滚滚而来的经典实例,涉及到大量非英语名词,看起来略吃力,故作如是观。 作者开头以美国和墨西...
评分知道这本书是在一次经济法研讨课上,出于好奇泛泛试读了一遍。全书论据庞杂繁复,如果仔细推敲不一定都站得住脚。但也正是由于作者的旁征博引,书中闪光之点频现。假如我是一位生活在作者国度亦或接受英美文化教育的读者,我想这本书带来的冲击力的的确确让人无力反驳又感受到...
评分不敢说是书评,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...
图书标签: 政治经济学 经济学 政治 经济 制度 PoliticalEconomy Economics 政治学
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.
Inclusive/extractive
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。
评分写总结性专著的反面典型。想通俗结果写得罗嗦+无说服力,白瞎了结论背后那么多牛逼的论文。看在观点好和背后的论文牛逼,勉强给个4星。
评分弃书。本来对这书有极高的期待,毕竟作者是MIT经济学教授,但看了大半本后发现只剩广度可以夸了。除了知道了很多历史故事,补足了我对Chichen Itza的认知之外,几乎没有给我任何站得住脚的观点,更不要说洞见。 把不同国家简单粗暴地在政治制度和经济体系划分为Extractive和Inclusive,然后就开始cherry-picking讲extractive的政治体系如何阻碍经济发展,如何就算取得一定成就也不可能持续发展。就算我某种程度上同意部分观点,但一本试图解释为什么一些国家经济失败的书,除了制度之外,完全不去分析资源、历史遗留原因、外部环境、时代因素等其他重要变量,要人怎么信服? 社科这种蕴含庞大产量、复杂模型的学问,为什么要摆出一副只有你一家的解释是唯一真理的姿态?这不是找锤吗?
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。
Why Nations Fail 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书