Why Nations Fail, Revisited: America’s Institutional Drift & China’s Cleantech Rise

CleanTechnica
By Michael BarnardSep 9, 2025, 8:18 pm183 ptsTrendingTop
I recently read Why Nations Fail, the 2012 book by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson, who won the Nobel Prize in 2024 for Economics for their work on how institutions shape economic prosperity, and was struck by how confidently it placed the United States on a path of enduring greatness. ... [continued] The…

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