Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

Summary

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty is a literary work^[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (722 views/month).^[2]

Key Facts

• Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty authored The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty — author (P50): Daron Acemoğlu^[3].
• Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty authored The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty — author (P50): James A. Robinson^[4].
• Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty's instance of is recorded as The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty — instance of (P31): literary work^[5].
• Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty's publisher is recorded as The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty — publisher (P123): Crown Publishing Group^[6].
• Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty's genre is recorded as The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty — genre (P136): non-fiction^[7].
• Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty's genre is recorded as The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty — genre (P136): popular science literature^[8].
• Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty's language of work or name is recorded as The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty — language of work or name (P407): English^[9].
• Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty's country of origin is recorded as The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty — country of origin (P495): United States^[10].
• Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty's publication date is recorded as +2012-03-20T00:00:00Z^[11].
• Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0knx_vv^[12].
• Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty's Open Library ID is recorded as OL16697651W^[13].
• Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty's Internet Archive ID is recorded as whynationsfailor00acem^[14].
• Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty's Internet Archive ID is recorded as whynationsfailor0000acem^[15].
• Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty's official website is recorded as http://whynationsfail.com/^[16].
• Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty's main subject is recorded as The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty — main subject (P921): comparative politics^[17].
• Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty's ISBN-10 is recorded as 0-307-71921-9^[18].
• Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty's number of pages is recorded as {'amount': '+693'}^[19].
• Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty's quantity is recorded as {'amount': '+3000'}^[20].
• Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty's described by source is recorded as The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty — described by source (P1343): Book review: S. Levitsky & D. Ziblatt, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future; D. Acemoglu & J.A. Robinson, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty and D. Roy Chowdhury & J. Keane, To Kill a Democracy: India^[21].
• Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty's described by source is recorded as The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty — described by source (P1343): Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson^[22].
• Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty's title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Why Nations Fail'}^[23].
• Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty's subtitle is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty'}^[24].
• Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty's OCLC work ID is recorded as 906966569^[25].
• Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty's FantLab work ID is recorded as 1752172^[26].
• Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty's Goodreads work ID is recorded as 17129429^[27].

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Works and Contributions

Authored works include The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty — author (P50): Daron Acemoğlu^[3], an economist^[28], b. 1967^[29], of Turkey^[30], awarded the John Bates Clark Medal^[31], specialised in economics^[32] and The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty — author (P50): James A. Robinson^[4], a political scientist^[33], b. 1960^[34], of United Kingdom^[35], awarded the Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences^[36], specialised in economics^[37].

Why It Matters

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty ranks in the top 2% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (722 views/month).^[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[38] It is known by 6 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[39]