{"id":1167,"date":"2012-04-02T13:07:03","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T07:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nextindia.org\/?p=1167"},"modified":"2012-04-02T13:07:03","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T07:37:03","slug":"why-nations-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextindia.org\/index.php\/2012\/04\/02\/why-nations-fail\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Nations Fail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/node\/21549911\">The Economist has a crisp review<\/a> of the book &#8220;Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty&#8221;, by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson.<\/p>\n<p>The bottom line &#8211; Nations fail because their leaders are greedy, selfish and ignorant of history.<\/p>\n<p>Sounds familiar? Perhaps <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flipkart.com\/nations-fail-0307719219\/p\/itmczyzzetnfxhss\/search-books-why-nations-fail\/1?pid=9780307719218&#038;ref=8b9d3cfe-2067-4f47-88c8-24fa7ca95aca&#038;_l=gWxQa0snNjHUHKJhnj_y0w--&#038;_r=70u3hLjOPP9Oef2zHGajTQ--\">worth a read <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img2.flixcart.com\/img\/thumb\/218\/9780307719218.jpg\" align=\"right\" alt=\"Title\" \/><\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IRAkz13cpsk\">Youtube video here<\/a>. And <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052702304724404577293714016708378.html\">WSJ review here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nextindia.org%2Findex.php%2F2012%2F04%2F02%2Fwhy-nations-fail%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;font=arial&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:80px\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economist has a crisp review of the book &#8220;Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty&#8221;, by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson. The bottom line &#8211; Nations fail because their leaders are greedy, selfish and ignorant of history. Sounds familiar? Perhaps worth a read . Youtube video here. And WSJ review here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":174,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[486],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextindia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextindia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextindia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextindia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/174"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextindia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextindia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1168,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextindia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167\/revisions\/1168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextindia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextindia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextindia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}