Why are some countries rich and the other poor. Ajemoglu D.

The book of Daron Ajemoglu and James Robinson “Why some countries are rich and the other poor” - one of the main political economic bestseller of recent times, epoch -making work, comparable in terms of the works of Samuel Huntington, Jared Diamond or Francis Fukuyama. The authors are wondering, who for centuries excited historians, economists and philosophers: what are the origins of world inequality, why is world wealth distributed in the countries and regions of the world so uneven? The answer to this question is given at the junction of history, political science and the economy, with the involvement of unusually extensive historical material from all eras and from all continents, which turns the book into a real encyclopedia of advanced political economic thought.