Read Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty Online
Authors: Daron Acemoğlu,James Robinson
Tags: #Non-Fiction, #Sociology, #Business, #Science, #Politics, #History
The emergence of hierarchy and inequality before farming: the grave goods of the Natufian
elite
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Natufian-Burial-ElWad.jpg
Extractive growth: Soviet Gulag labor builds the White Sea canal
SOVFOTO
Britain falls far behind: the ruins of the Roman empire at Vindolanda
Courtesy of the Vindolanda Trust and Adam Stanford
Innovation, essence of inclusive economic growth: James Watt’s steam engine
The Granger Collection, NY
Organizational change, a consequence of inclusive institutions: the factory of Richard Arkwright at Cromford
The Granger Collection, NY
Fruits of unsustainable extractive growth: Zheng He’s ship alongside Columbus’s
Santa Maria
Gregory A. Harlin/National Geographic Stock
Bird’s-eye view of the dual economy in South Africa: poverty in Transkei, prosperity in Natal
Roger de la Harpe/Africa Imagery
Consequences of the Industrial Revolution: the storming of the
Bastille Bridgeman-Giraudon/Art Resource, NY
Challenges to inclusive institutions: the Standard Oil Company
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.
Noncreative destruction: abandoned Hasting railway station on the way to Bo in Sierra Leone
© Matt Stephenson:
www.itsayshere.org
Extractive institutions today: children working in an Uzbek cotton field
Environmental Justice Foundation,
www.ejfoundation.org
Breaking a mold: three Tswana chiefs on their way to London
Photograph by Willoughby, courtesy of Botswana National Archives & Records Services
Breaking another mold: Rosa Parks challenges extractive institutions in the U.S. south
The Granger Collection, NY