The narrow corridor : how nations struggle for liberty /
Daron Acemoglu
Bok · Engelsk · 2020
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| Omfang | xix, 556 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps
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| Opplysninger | "Published with a new preface in Penguin Books 2020". - How does history end? -- The Red Queen -- Will to power -- Economics outside the corridor -- Allegory of good government -- The European scissors -- Mandate of Heaven -- Broken Red Queen -- Devil in the details -- What's the matter with Ferguson? -- The paper Leviathan -- Wahhab's children -- Red Queen out of control -- Into the corridor -- Living with the Leviathan.. - The most fundamental definition of liberty is that people are free from violence, intimidation, and other demeaning acts. Acemoglu and Robinson examine how and why human societies have achieved liberty-- or failed to achieve it. Believing that liberty is a basic aspiration of all human beings, they examine why it has been rare in history-- and is rare today. -- Adapted from foreword.
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| ISBN | 9780241314333
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