a collection of articles, books and videos exploring the question: "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...
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Samsung’s Dangerous Dominance over South Korea
In a time of great powers and empires, just one region of the world experienced extraordinary economic growth. How? How and why did the modern w...
"The best explanation of the “institutional” school of economics. Why “inclusive institutions” promote growth and extractive ones don’t." - The Eco...
"An alternative to the Acemoglu/Robinson thesis. Economic history owes a lot to geographic endowment; for example, Africa lacked large mammals that...
Marginal Revolution University Published on Sep 14, 2015 A summary of Jared Diamond's important arguments in Guns, Germs and Steel about why grow...
More light, less clarity THOUGH SHE lives in one of the world’s poorest countries, Drocella Yandereye is a picture of upward mobility. Her small...
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