'A great read. Like me, you may succumb to reading it in one go, and then you may come back to it again and again.'
Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs and Steel
'An intellectually rich book that develops an important thesis with verve.'
Financial Times
The town of Nogales is divided by a fence: on the north side is the United States, and on the south side, Mexico. And the inhabitants on the northern side face lower crime rates, live longer and earn three times as much as their southern neighbours.
Leading academics Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson set out to answer how two places - which share an ethnic background, a geographical location and a climate - could be so different.
By Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson