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Daron Acemoglu on Why Nations Fail

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Why Nations Fail

No way in one hour conversation that we can do justice to the scope and breadth of this book. It's short of 500 pages, but the historical richness of it is quite extraordinary. So soont be too ambitious yet. Why nations fail has this sort of, sort of a single word iorof, but it's, it's the right le is wide. Some nations fail and others succeed. That's like somebody in macawriting to day in a book called general theory will be a little fitatious.

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