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Shortlisted for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2012. Why are some nations more prosperous than others? Why Nations Fail sets out to answer this question, with a compelling and elegantly argued new theory: that it is not down to climate, geography or culture, bu...
Reading Time Estimates
13h 28m
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180 WPM
9h 42m
average reader
250 WPM
6h 56m
fast reader
350 WPM
📖 145,475 words📅 20 days at 30 min/day
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