Thursday, September 21, 2017

Daron Acemoglu. Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty.  Crown Business, 2012. 556 p. $19.

Author
Daron is an economist at MIT with a PhD from the London School of Economics.

Benefit
A scholarly review of why authoritarian regimes have poor economics -- along with suggestions for how developed nations can help the undeveloped world.  This book is particularly useful because it offers suggestions for how the world can help North Korea and other rogue states.