As we will show, poor countries are poor because those who have power make choices that create poverty. They get it wrong not by mistake or ignorance but on purpose. To understand this, you have to go beyond economics and expert advice on the best thing to do and, instead, study how decisions actually get made, who gets to make them, and why those people decide to do what they do. This is the study of politics and political processes. ... [A]chieving prosperity depends on solving some basic political problems. It is precisely because economics has assumed that political problems are solved that it has not been able to come up with a convincing explanation for world inequality. Explaining world inequality still needs economics to understand how different types of policies and social ar... (查看原文)
Acemoglu and Robinson on Why Nations Fail Francis Fukuyama Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson have just published Why Nations Fail, a big book on development that will attract a lot of attention. The latest fad in development studies has been to conduct con...
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据说经济学家张五常提出的产权论在中国影响深远,其可贵之處是简单而清晰。张氏认为穷国富国,取決于产权介定。你是否有权转让自己的财产(a right to transfer)?是否有权用它(a right to use)?是否能用資产賺取收入(a right to earn income)。三大权的定立需要市场经济配...
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17 有用 SkyEscape 2025-11-03 04:51:11 四川
掩卷叹息,对未来不免悲观。榨取式的政治制度必然导致创新乏力、分配不公,很多预测正开始应验。中式史观过度强调一种必然,就像是某种“天命”,但很多重大转变如本书所言确实是偶然的,谁又能想到黑死病促成了光荣革命呢?或许已错过了最好的时候,即将走入恶性循环。对本书不满意的点在于对于广纳式政治和经济制度以及榨取式制度的定义非常不清晰。
51 有用 Lowbrow 2025-06-13 12:30:57 内蒙古
千万不要看大陆翻译的那版!!!
94 有用 萝卜头的蜘蛛人 2025-07-19 21:52:50 山东
简体版本的短评很招笑。对着一本删减版就开始高谈阔论起来了。
8 有用 從小營養不良 2025-08-09 22:06:27 浙江
尊重財產權、強化法治、保障人權的包容廣納型制度,才是永續發展的最佳選擇。沒有其他的做法了(There is no other way)
25 有用 肉灵始动 2025-07-04 01:40:23 河南
(1)历史偶然事件推动制度漂移,制度差异的积累,在历史关键时期(黑死病、大航海、大西洋贸易、工业革命……)到来时产生相变,导致不同社会发展出不同制度,而不同制度又进一步巩固或渐变了不同的社会政治经济体系,从而决定了国家经济和历史的发展走向。(2)天不生大英,万古如长夜。用老中最爱的说法就是,作业都给你做好几百年了,放在那你就是不抄。同桌老老实实抄了作业,现在成绩和人缘比你好多了,同学喜欢老师爱,你... (1)历史偶然事件推动制度漂移,制度差异的积累,在历史关键时期(黑死病、大航海、大西洋贸易、工业革命……)到来时产生相变,导致不同社会发展出不同制度,而不同制度又进一步巩固或渐变了不同的社会政治经济体系,从而决定了国家经济和历史的发展走向。(2)天不生大英,万古如长夜。用老中最爱的说法就是,作业都给你做好几百年了,放在那你就是不抄。同桌老老实实抄了作业,现在成绩和人缘比你好多了,同学喜欢老师爱,你就别说什么我们教室东边自有情况在此,什么第8排不适合抄第3排的作业了。 (展开)