Why do some nations flourish while others are trapped in cycles of poverty and decay? Why Nations Fail cuts through geography, culture, and chance to expose the raw machinery of power—where inclusive institutions build prosperity and extractive ones hollow it out. With the force of a grand detective story, it reveals how empires collapse not from outside threats, but from within, when the few prey upon the many. Can a society rewrite its destiny, or are its failures hardwired into the very rules it lives by? This is a journey into the heart of inequality—and a blueprint for those bold enough to change it.

• Originally Published: 2012
• Publisher : Crown Currency, 2013
• Pages: 544
• Book Type: Hardcopy
• ISBN-13: 978-0307719225
• Access: Members