num_pages: 531
description: The Wealth and Poverty of Nations is David S. Landes's acclaimed, best-selling exploration of one of the most contentious and hotly debated questions of our time: Why do some nations achieve economic success while others remain mired in poverty? The answer, as Landes definitively illustrates, is a complex interplay of cultural mores and historical circumstance. Rich with anecdotal evidence, piercing analysis, and a truly astonishing range of erudition, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations is a "picture of enormous sweep and brilliant insight" (Kenneth Arrow) as well as one of the most audaciously ambitious works of history in decades.For the paperback edition, Landes has written a new epilogue, in which he takes account of Asian financial crisises and the international tension between overconfidence and reality.
language: English
title: The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor
titlecomplete: The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor
genres: History, Finance, Philosophy, Economics, Sociology, World History, Business, Nonfiction, Poverty, Politics
ratings_count: 3551
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company