The Wealth and Poverty of Nations (Paperback)

from deferredreward

A great book that takes a broad look at the successful and unsuccessful countries/regions of the world over the last 700 years or so. While this was not a difficult read, it was not a really engagi...

from HadriantheBlind

Reread for class.Author's main thesis is that cultural values play an important role in whether or not a nation succeeds or fails. Some areas of his thesis are easy to ridicule, but there is a lot ...

from nbmars

This is an anecdotal account of how some nations are much wealthier than others. Culture counts. European culture is better at producing wealth than African, Middle Eastern, or South American. Land...

from CassandraT

I stopped reading it during the inventions chapter. The size of the book and amount of information and opinion were too much to bother...

from simplicimus

As a history of economics, this book was quite interesting, being a combination of over-views/analysis and specific details. No doubt the author's knowledge about the subject is vast. What made it ...