Category: Why Nations Fail

Why have some countries prospered and created great living conditions for their citizens, while others have not? This is a topic I care a lot about, so I was eager to pick up a book recently on exactly this topic. Why Nations Fail is easy to read, with lots of interesting historical stories about different…

Why Nations Fail is a sweeping attempt to explain the gut-wrenching poverty that leaves 1.29 billion people in the developing world struggling to live on less than $1.25 a day. You might expect it to be a bleak, numbing read. Its not. Its bracing, garrulous, wildly ambitious and ultimately hopeful. It may, in fact, be…

Why do some nations prosper while others struggle and are plagued with poverty and greed? Some people say it has everything to do with a nations location, culture, or lack of knowledge. But surely this cant be the whole picture. Just look at Botswana. It currently has one of the fastest increasing economies in the…

Have you ever asked yourself why some nations are poor and others are not? Have you ever asked yourself why do some nations enjoy prosperity and others rot in poverty and inequality for ages? Have you ever asked yourself why, in the first place, there is such thing as poor nations and rich nations when…

Peter Singer in his paper Famine, Affluence and Mortality believe that people of higher wealth should be morally obligated to donate more to humanitarian causes than what is considered normal in western cultures. Its Singers premice that if it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable…