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which secure private property and encourage entrepreneurship. The long-term result is higher incomes and improved human welfare. What Acemoglu and Robinson call "extractive" political institutions, in contrast, place power in the hands of a few and beget extractive economic institutions, which feature

emerged as an economic success story, and it now boasts one of the highest per capita incomes in Africa. So what changed? According to Acemoglu and Robinson, Botswana broke the mold "by quickly developing inclusive economic and political institutions after independence." The authors wax rhapsodic about

vernment, Geography, and Growth Jeffrey D. Sachs September/October 2012 -- According to the economist Daron Acemoglu and the political scientist James Robinson, economic development hinges on a single factor: a country's political institutions. More specifically, as they explain in their new book, Why Nati

which secure private property and encourage entrepreneurship. The long-term result is higher incomes and improved human welfare. What Acemoglu and Robinson call "extractive" political institutions, in contrast, place power in the hands of a few and beget extractive economic institutions, which feature

Jeffrey D. Sachs September/October 2012 -- According to the economist Daron EFTA_R1_02211669 EFTA02724663 Acemoglu and the political scientist James Robinson, economic development hinges on a single factor: a country's political institutions. More specifically, as they explain in their new book, Why Nat

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hat has sold close to half a million copies in English, and hundreds of thousands in translations around the world. "Balance of Power," Acemoglu and Robinson write, "develops an entirely original thesis about the diversity of the ways in which states function, resolve conflicts, provide public services and