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

Document Outline

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Preface
• 1. So Close and Yet So Different
• 2. Theories that Don’t Work
• 3. The Making of Prosperity and Poverty
• 4. Small Differences and Critical Junctures: The Weight of History
• 5. “I’ve seen the Future, and It Works”: Growth Under Extractive Institutions
• 6. Drifting Apart
• 7. The Turning Point
• 8. Not on Our Turf: Barriers to Development
• Photo Inserts
• 9. Reversing Development
• 10. The Diffusion of Prosperity
• 11. The Virtuous Circle
• 12. The Vicious Circle
• 13. Why Nations Fail Today
• 14. Breaking the Mold
• 15. Understanding Prosperity and Poverty
• Acknowledgments
• Bibliographical Essay and Sources
• References