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Demeter

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27. MUST READ/LISTEN: Why Nations Fail NPR ON POINT PODCAST

Thu Mar 22, 2012, 07:05 AM

Mar 2012

http://onpoint.wbur.org/2012/03/21/why-nations-fail

A new argument that a country’s ultimate success, or failure, is tied to how the average person does. Doesn’t matter if it’s ancient Rome, Venice, China, or the U.S.A.

INTERVIEWEE: Daron Acemoglu, a professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he’s the author of Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty. He blogs at http://www.whynationsfail.com

IT'S THE 99%, YOU STUPID, PARASITICAL LEECHES OF A SELF-STYLED "ELITE"!

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