Economic development issue: Why are some countries rich, others poor?

Marginal Revolution University Published on Feb 16, 2016 Throughout this section of the course, we’ve been trying to solve a complicated economic... (2018)

It must not squander the opportunity of the next commodity boom | Leaders (2023)

Why do societies fail? With lessons from the Norse of Iron Age Greenland, deforested Easter Island and present-day Montana, Jared Diamond ... (2023)

Why the Southern Hemisphere is Poorer (2022)

Nations come with a vast array of peoples, languages and histories, but the strong ones share three simple things... (2018)

"The best explanation of the “institutional” school of economics. Why “inclusive institutions” promote growth and extractive ones don’t." - The Eco... (2018)

"An alternative to the Acemoglu/Robinson thesis. Economic history owes a lot to geographic endowment; for example, Africa lacked large mammals that... (2018)

Marginal Revolution University Published on Sep 14, 2015 A summary of Jared Diamond's important arguments in Guns, Germs and Steel about why grow... (2018)

Red in tooth, claw and tape "ADAM SMITH visited a pin factory to discover how the wealth of nations was created. Hernando de Soto, a Peruvian ec... (2018)

Development as Freedom book. Read 238 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. By the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics, a... (2020)

The Narrow Corridor book. Read 107 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. 'A must-read. Acemoglu and Robinson are intellectual hea... (2020)

As a result, the ideas of the earliest economists are being revised and improved (2020)