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Genre/Form: | Informational works Documents d'information |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Acemoglu, Daron. Narrow corridor. New York : Penguin Press, 2019 (DLC) 2019981140 (OCoLC)1105752959 |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Daron Acemoglu; James A Robinson |
ISBN: | 9780735224384 0735224382 9781984879189 1984879189 9780735224407 0735224404 |
OCLC Number: | 1082389836 |
Description: | xvii, 558 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm |
Contents: | 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. |
Responsibility: | Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson. |
Abstract:
"A crucial new big-picture framework that answers the question of how liberty flourishes in some states but falls to authoritarianism or anarchy in others--and explains how it can continue to thrive despite new threats"--
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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