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"Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty" -- Daron Acemoglu, 2011

The University of Scranton
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Political Economy of Growth

4:09

Henry George Lecture

5:17

Why Nations Fail

7:18

Geographic Pattern

9:21

Adam Smith

10:23

Pedro De Mendoza Founded Buenos Aires

14:27

Extractive Economic Institutions

26:06

Technological Change

33:24

Theory of Institutional Change

38:05

Institutional Drift

40:09

Critical Junctures

41:30

The Glorious Revolution

43:33

Industrial Revolution

44:09

English Colonization

47:55

How Feudalism Started Declining

50:04

The Early Latin American Experience

55:44

The Industrial Revolution

56:22

Why Africa Is Poor

1:03:33

The Apartheid Regime in South Africa

1:04:52

Botswana

1:12:24

The Venetian Republic

1:16:06

Plantation Colonies

1:23:32

European Union

1:26:31

The South Korea Trajectory

1:31:35
"Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty" -- Daron Acemoglu, 2011
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2011Nov 11
Daron Acemoglu, Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics at MIT, delivered the 26th Annual Henry George Lecture. The lecture is sponsored by The Department of Economics and Finance.

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The University of Scranton

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