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The Wealth and Poverty of Nations

David Landes

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#2658 of 3,809 books · #42 in Business & Economics

Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction (1999).

The Wealth and Poverty of Nations won the New York Times Bestseller designation. The Wealth and Poverty of Nations is David S. Landes's acclaimed, best-selling exploration of one of the most contentious and hotly debated questions of our time: Why do some nations achieve economic success while others remain mired in poverty? The answer, as Landes definitively illustrates, is a complex interplay of cultural mores and historical circumstance. Rich with anecdotal evidence, piercing analysis, and a truly astonishing range of erudition, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations is a "picture of enormous sweep and brilliant insight" as well as one of the most audaciously ambitious works of history in decades.

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Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN-13
9780393069815
Topics
Economic developmentGlobal inequalityEconomic history

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