Why Nations Fail with Daron Acemoglu - presented by Lexington Community Education

When:
Wednesday, Feb 01, 2017 7:00p -
8:30p

Where:
Lexingtno Depot
13 Depot Square
Lexington, Massachusetts 02420

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Admission:
$10.00

Categories:
Lectures & Conferences

Event website:
http://lexingtoncommunityed.org/detail.php?q=SWNF

Why do nations fail? Is it culture, the weather, geography? Perhaps ignorance of what the right policies are? Simply, no. None of these factors is either definitive or destiny.
In their book Why Nations Fail, Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson conclusively show that it is man-made political and economic institutions that underlie economic success (or the lack of it).


Acemoglu and Robinson marshal extraordinary historical evidence from the Roman Empire, the Mayan city-states, medieval Venice, the Soviet Union, Latin America, England, Europe, the United States, and Africa to build a new theory of political economy with great relevance for the big questions of today.


Daron Acemoglu is the Killian Professor of Economics at MIT. In 2005 he received the John Bates Clark Medal awarded to economists under forty judged to have made the most significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge.


Pre-registration is strongly recommended by contacting Lexington Community Education at 781 862 8043.

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