The Narrow Corridor

How Nations Struggle for Liberty

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Beschreibung

<p><b>FROM THE WINNERS OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN ECONOMICS<br><br>One of the <i>Financial Times</i>' Best Books of 2019<br>One of Kirkus Reviews' Best Books of 2019<br>Shortlisted for the Lionel Gelber Prize</b><br><br><b>'This book is more original and exciting than its predecessor...the highly influential <i>Why Nations Fail' </i>Martin Wolf, <i>Financial Times</i></b><br><br>By the authors of the international bestseller <i>Why Nations Fail</i>, based on decades of research, this powerful new big-picture framework explains how some countries develop towards and provide liberty while others fall to despotism, anarchy or asphyxiating norms - and explains how liberty can thrive despite new threats.<br><br>Liberty is hardly the 'natural' order of things; usually states have been either too weak to protect individuals or too strong for people to protect themselves from despotism. There is also a happy Western myth that where liberty exists, it's a steady state, arrived at by 'enlightenment'. But liberty emerges only when a delicate and incessant balance is struck between state and society - between elites and citizens. This struggle becomes self-reinforcing, inducing both state and society to develop a richer array of capacities, thus affecting the peacefulness of societies, the success of economies and how people experience their daily lives.<br><br>Explaining this new framework through compelling stories from around the world, in history and from today - and through a single diagram on which the development of any state can be plotted - this masterpiece helps us understand the past and present, and analyse the future.<br><br><b>'As enjoyable as it is thought-provoking' Jared Diamond</b></p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780241314333

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

199 x 130 x 40 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Verlag / Hersteller

Penguin Books Ltd (UK)