Daron Acemoglu · 2012
A speaker recommends a book written by someone else.
None yet.
Speakers who argue against the book or name its limits.
“So that's the one part of the institution story, the How Nations Fail story that I buy. I mostly don't buy that at all.”
Why: The guest notes it goes too far into institutional predestination and misses human agency.
Philip Auerswald, Guest on EconTalkCan a Phone Be a Cow? (with Philip Auerswald)
The author, or a host talking with the author, discusses the book. Not counted as an endorsement.
“not only is he a Nobel Prize winner, he is also the author of a very famous book that you and I have probably read a couple of times now called Why Nations Fail.”
Joe Weisenthal, Host on Odd Lots (Bloomberg)James Robinson on What It Looks Like When a State is Failing | Odd Lots
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