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From the authors of the global bestseller Why Nations Fail.

SUBJECT

Economics, politics, history, worldview literature.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Freedom has always been rare in the history of mankind. Between the oppression of an oppressive state and the violence of statelessness, there is a narrow corridor to freedom. According to Daron Ajemoglu and James Robinson, it is in this corridor that the state and society must balance each other. How to restrain a state with a huge bureaucracy and a powerful military? How to maintain cooperation in society and protect it from manipulation by divisions and differences?

Who is the book for

For a wide range of readers, anyone who wants to understand what freedom is in the context of the state and what consequences it entails.

Why you should buy this book

In this book, researchers answer the question of what freedom is and why some societies manage to achieve it, while others do not. The authors of the world bestseller Why Nations Decline, describing historical events from the first mention on clay tablets to the present day, show how different societies pass through a narrow corridor with different consequences for themselves.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Daron Ademoglu is a professor of economics at Harvard University. In 2005, he was awarded the John Bates Clarke Medal, which is given to economists under the age of 40 for their contribution to the development of economic thought. He is one of the ten most quoted economists in the world.

James Robinson — economist and politician. Professor at the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Public Policy. He studied economics at the London School of Economics, the Worcester Polytechnic and Yale Universities. He is an internationally recognised expert on Latin America and Africa.