Books and Articles for my critique of AJR's 'Why Nations Fail'.
Added 2024-11-03 19:50:31 +0000 UTCmy article: Acemoglu in Kongo: a critique of 'Why Nations Fail' and its wilful ignorance of African history.
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty By Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
The Kingdom of Kongo by Anne Hilton
That Most Precious Merchandise: The Mediterranean Trade in Black Sea Slaves, 1260-1500 by Hannah Barker
Reversal of Fortune: Geography and Institutions in the Making of the Modern World Income Distribution by Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, James A. Robinson
The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation, by Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, James A. Robinson,
Reply to the Revised (May 2006) version of David Albouy’s “The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Investigation of the Settler Mortality Data.” by Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James Robinson.
The ‘Reversal of Fortune’ Thesis and the Compression of History: Perspectives from African and Comparative Economic History by Gareth Austin.
The Art of War in Angola, 1575-1680 by John K. Thornton
Precolonial African Industry and the Atlantic Trade, 1500-1800 by John Thornton
The Historian and the Precolonial African Economy: John Thornton Responds, by John Thornton
The Growth and Decline of African Agriculture in Central Angola, 1890-1950 by Linda M. Heywood
Slave hunting and slave redemption as a business enterprise by Dariusz Kołodziejczyk.
The History of Literacy in Spain by Antonio Viñao Frago.
