Reception of Acemoglu-Robinson 'extractive institutions' thesis?
Upvote:3
Jared Diamond, a cross-discipline scholar who's work more or less accurately reflects modern thinking in History, Sociology and human evolution and biology, makes a detailed review of their work here. He's pretty enthusiastic about it overall, but he does note some problems. Here's the summary:
My overall assessment of the authors’ argument is that inclusive institutions, while not the overwhelming determinant of prosperity that they claim, are an important factor. Perhaps they provide 50 percent of the explanation for national differences in prosperity. That’s enough to establish such institutions as one of the major forces in the modern world. Why Nations Fail offers an excellent way for any interested reader to learn about them and their consequences. Whereas most writing by academic economists is incomprehensible to the lay public, Acemoglu and Robinson have written this book so that it can be understood and enjoyed by all of us who aren’t economists.
More post
- 📝 In which document was the exact course of the northern part of the German-Polish border decided?
- 📝 What are the modern roles of brigadier generals and commodores?
- 📝 What happened to prisoners in IS occupied territory?
- 📝 Which type of cursive is historically correct?
- 📝 Is there any truth to the claim that freed slaves who moved to Liberia enslaved the local population?
- 📝 Were Egyptian Pharaohs literate?
- 📝 Were the Vikings descendents of the Tribe of Dan?
- 📝 Did Archimedes have any students?
- 📝 Were US exports in the early 1800s paid for with metal or with paper?
- 📝 Was Yahweh a god in a possible Edomite Pantheon?
- 📝 Why did Italy's Battle for Births fail?
- 📝 Which Imperial Russian officials created and verified passports?
- 📝 How much authority did a traveling lord have in England in the late 16th century?
- 📝 Why did the USA stay out of the League of Nations?
- 📝 How did the US abolition of slavery affect the cotton exports?
- 📝 Why were ancient cities protected by walls?
- 📝 Is there any data that supports or refutes the claim made in this paper about the Harappan/Indus Valley civilization?
- 📝 Were there many "co-headed" commands where the senior member was younger than the junior?
- 📝 What did Yuri Gagarin do while waiting for his ride?
- 📝 How do ancient Chinese "mirrors" such as these in the National Museum function?
- 📝 Does any copy exist of the Papal bull which authorized the Spanish Inquisition?
- 📝 Is there a term for the principle of preferring earlier statements over later statements made by historical eye witnesses?
- 📝 Can anyone tell me anything about the markings on these shell casings?
- 📝 When did GB acknowledge the USA as sovereign state?
- 📝 Is there a name for the style of the 'superhero' Russian statues?
- 📝 World War 2-era WD AGO Form 53-55
- 📝 When did cavalry soldiers unsheathe swords?
- 📝 Date of Transatlantic crossing postcard
- 📝 Do revisionist historiographies come closer to "unbiased truth"?
- 📝 Did Germany have treaties imposed upon it after WWII that mirrored the weight of the Treaty of Versailles?
Source: stackoverflow.com
Search Posts
Related post
- 📝 Reception of Acemoglu-Robinson 'extractive institutions' thesis?
- 📝 Is the use by old masters of camera obscura and optics in general a taboo topic in Art History, or was David Hockney's thesis wrong?
- 📝 Why did Hitler attack the Soviet Union when he was still busy fighting the United Kingdom?
- 📝 When did people decide that all caps means the writer is shouting?
- 📝 Did the ancients or other pre-industrial civilisations engage in unsustainable practices?
- 📝 Why was France granted an equal status among victors of World War II?
- 📝 Do historians agree that most wars are caused by religion?
- 📝 How do historians and linguists know how to pronounce the names from non-phonetic scripts?
- 📝 Why, in ancient battles, did being encircled mean defeat?
- 📝 Did China ever consider a phonetic writing system?
- 📝 Were there women who were against giving women the right to vote?
- 📝 Why did Native Americans die from European diseases while Europeans didn't catch serious diseases from the New World?
- 📝 Why bother attacking castles at all? Why not go around?
- 📝 On 1941 Dec 7, could Japan have targeted the Panama Canal instead of Pearl Harbor in a surprise attack?
- 📝 When did the allies find out about the killing of Jews during WW2
- 📝 Did Adolf Hitler ever address the fact that his own appearance was almost an exact opposite of what he considered the ideal Aryan appearance?
- 📝 Why did the Confederacy think they could win the American Civil War?
- 📝 Why are Germans referred to so differently in different languages?
- 📝 Why did archery not make a comeback when armor was phased out in the 18th century?
- 📝 Why was Poland spared from the Black Death?
- 📝 Has a sovereign Communist government ever run, and conceded loss, on a fair election?
- 📝 Why China was able to unify and not Europe?
- 📝 Why didn't Imperial Japan attack the Soviet Union during World War 2?
- 📝 What is the origin of 3 meals a day?
- 📝 Why were old fortifications shaped like stars and not like circles?
- 📝 Did medieval scholars believe the Earth was round?
- 📝 Did the ancient Greeks ever climb Mt. Olympus?
- 📝 Why didn't Germany blockade the Strait of Gibraltar during WW2?
- 📝 Why does the United States keep using "old" date representations and imperial system, while being in the minority?
- 📝 How would a 16-year-old girl from Cleopatra's era curse?