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David S. Landes · 1998
A sweeping economic history that traces how colonial extraction and the institutions it created set Europe and its former colonies on divergent long-run paths, told with the narrative drive and moral force that make Why Nations Fail compelling.
Jared Diamond · 1997
The classic big-picture account of how geography, crops, and disease shaped why some societies developed states and technologies earlier than others, told with the same sweeping economic-history ambition as Why Nations Fail.
Francis Fukuyama · 2011
A grand comparative history of how states, rule of law and accountability emerged differently across regions, giving the reader a deep institutional lens on why colonial extraction produced such varied long-run outcomes.
Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson · 2019
By the same authors as Why Nations Fail, this book examines how a strong state and a strong society must balance to prevent elites from capturing power and blocking broad-based growth.
Gregory Clark · 2007
A provocative, accessible history of why the Industrial Revolution happened in England and not elsewhere, using disease, demography, and living standards to explain why most of the world stayed poor for so long.
Joel Mokyr · 2009
A substantial but accessible synthesis showing how Enlightenment ideas, useful knowledge and institutional openness made Britain the first industrial nation, directly extending the reader's interest in institutions and growth.
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