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Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty, first published in 2012, is a book by economists Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson, who jointly received the 2024 Nobel Economics Prize (alongside Simon Johnson) for their contribution in comparative studies of prosperity between nations.
On May 18, 2014, the English edition reached number one on The New York Times Best Seller list for best selling hardcover nonfiction [3] and became the greatest sales success ever of academic publisher Harvard University Press. [4] As of January 2015, the book had sold 1.5 million copies in French, English, German, Chinese, and Spanish. [5]
Moldova is the fastest growing economy in Europe, but is also one of Europe's poorest countries, with the lowest GDP (nominal) per capita of any European state. Monaco has the highest GDP (nominal) per capita of any European state. Russia is the largest transcontinental European economy and will remain so until at least 2030.
Release date Pages ISBN Awards A.J.P. Taylor: The Struggle for Mastery in Europe 1848–1918: 1954 638 Raymond Carr: Spain, 1808–1939: 1966; 1982 (2d ed.) 766 Hugh Seton-Watson: The Russian Empire, 1801–1917: 1967 813 Theodore Zeldin: France, 1848–1945, Vol 1: Ambition, Love and Politics: 1973 823 978-0198221043: Won 1974 Wolfson History ...
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The least developed countries (LDCs) are developing countries listed by the United Nations that exhibit the lowest indicators of socioeconomic development.The concept of LDCs originated in the late 1960s and the first group of LDCs was listed by the UN in its resolution 2768 (XXVI) on 18 November 1971.
Rod Liddle of The Sunday Times called the book "a brilliant, important and profoundly depressing book". [4] In The Daily Telegraph , Juliet Samuel summarised Murray's book by saying, "His overall thesis, that a guilt-driven and exhausted Europe is playing fast and loose with its precious modern values by embracing migration on such a scale, is ...
Savage Continent: Europe in The Aftermath of World War II is a 2012 non-fiction book written by English historian Keith Lowe. The full text is divided into four parts with 29 chapters in total. The full text is divided into four parts with 29 chapters in total.