Why Nations Fail : (Record no. 13647)
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| JCCL Control Number | 13647 |
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| JCCL marc code | BD-JhCC |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20240313122713.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 111110s2012 enkab b 001 0 eng c |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781846684296 (hbk.) |
| Terms of availability | �25.00 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 1846684293 (hbk.) |
| Terms of availability | �25.00 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781846686108 (export ed.) |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| Cancelled/invalid ISBN | 9781847654618 (ebk.) |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| Cancelled/invalid ISBN | 1847654614 (ebk.046Z) |
| 035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER | |
| system control number | (OCoLC)13647 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | StDuBDS |
| Transcribing agency | StDuBDS |
| Modifying agency | Uk |
| -- | WlAbNL |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of Book | english |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 330 |
| DDC Edition number | 23 |
| Author mark and Year | ACE 2012 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Acemoglu, Daron. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Why Nations Fail : |
| Remainder of title | The Origins Of Power, Prosperity And Poverty / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | London : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | Profile, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2012. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Pagination | xi, 529 p. : |
| Other physical details | ill., maps ; |
| Dimensions | 25 cm. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| Bibliography, etc | Includes bibliographical references (p. [483]-509) and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Machine generated contents note: Why Egyptians filled Tahrir Square to bring down Hosni Mubarak and what it means for our understanding of the causes of prosperity and poverty -- 1.So Close and Yet So Different -- Nogales, Arizona, and Nogales, Sonora, have the same people, culture, and geography. Why is one rich and one poor? -- 2.Theories That Don't Work -- Poor countries are poor not because of their geographies or cultures, or because their leaders do not know which policies will enrich their citizens -- 3.The Making of Prosperity and Poverty -- How prosperity and poverty are determined by the incentives created by institutions, and how politics determines what institutions a nation has -- 4.Small Differences and Critical Junctures: The Weight of History -- How institutions change through political conflict and how the past shapes the present -- 5."I've Seen the Future, and It Works": Growth Under Extractive Institutions -- |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Contents note continued: What Stalin, King Shyaam, the Neolithic Revolution, and the Maya city-states all had in common and how this explains why China's current economic growth cannot last -- 6.Drifting Apart -- How institutions evolve over time, often slowly drifting apart -- 7.The Turning Point -- How a political revolution in 1688 changed institutions in England and led to the Industrial Revolution -- 8.Not on Our Turf: Barriers to Development -- Why the politically powerful in many nations opposed the Industrial Revolution -- 9.Reversing Development -- How European colonialism impoverished large parts of the world -- 10.The Diffusion of Prosperity -- How some parts of the world took different paths to prosperity from that of Britain -- 11.The Virtuous Circle -- How institutions that encourage prosperity create positive feedback loops that prevent the efforts by elites to undermine them -- 12.The Vicious Circle -- |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Contents note continued: How institutions that create poverty generate negative feedback loops and endure -- 13.Why Nations Fail Today -- Institutions, institutions, institutions -- 14.Breaking the Mold -- How a few countries changed their economic trajectory by changing their institutions -- 15.Understanding Prosperity and Poverty -- How the world could have been different and how understanding this can explain why most attempts to combat poverty have failed. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Institutional economics. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Economic anthropology. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Economic history |
| Chronological subdivision | 1945- |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Failed states. |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Robinson, James A., |
| Dates associated with a name | 1960- |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type | Books |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date of accession | Cost, normal purchase price | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Date checked out | Copy number | Method of acquisition | Koha item type | Currency |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | JCC Rouf Library | JCC Rouf Library | General Stacks | 510.00 | 3 | 330 ACE 2012 | 19102 | 02/07/2026 | 10/26/2025 | C-1 | Purchase | Books | BDT |