D. Acemoglu and J. Robinson – Why Nations Fail – Similar Books & Further Reading

Books, articles, and essays for further reading

• Politics and Economics in Weak and Strong States — Acemoglu, Daron
• Natural Experiments in History — Jared Diamond and James A. Robinson
• The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation — Acemoglu, Daron, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson
• Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy — Acemoglu, Daron, and James A. Robinson
• Persistence of Power, Elites and Institutions. — Acemoglu, Daron, and James A. Robinson
• The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective. — Allen, Robert C.
• The Economics of Growth. — Aghion, Philippe, and Peter Howitt
• Asia’s Next Giant — Amsden, Alice H.
• Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty. — Banerjee, Abhijit V., and Esther Duflo
• The Moral Basis of a Backward Society. — Banfield, Edward C.
• The Roman Bazaar. — Bang, Peter
• The Agricultural Revolution in Prehistory: Why Did Foragers Become Farmers? — Barker, Graeme
• A Deplorable Scarcity: The Failure of Industrialization in the Slave Economy. — Bateman, Fred, and Thomas Weiss
• The Black Death, 1346–1353: The Complete History. — Benedictow, Ole J.
• Prosperity and Violence: The Political Economy of Development. — Bates, Robert H.
• Beyond the Miracle of the Market. — Bates, Robert H.
• Pillars of Prosperity: The Political Economics of Development Clusters. — Besley, Timothy, and Torsten Persson
• Oligarchy, Democracy, Inequality and Growth — Bourguignon, François, and Thierry Verdier
• The First Industrialists: The Problem of Origins. — The First Industrialists: The Problem of Origins.
• Red Teas: War, Famine and Revolution in Ethiopia. — Dawit Wolde Giorgis
• Guns, Germs and Steel. — Diamond, Jared
• The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good. — Easterly, William
• Slavery, Emancipation & Freedom: Comparative Perspectives — Engerman, Stanley L.
• The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization. — Fagan, Brian
• The Myth of the Frontier — The Myth of the Frontier
• Fixing Failed States: A Framework for Rebuilding a Fractured World. — Ghani, Ashraf, and Clare Lockhart
• How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower. — Goldsworthy, Adrian K.
• Pathways from the Periphery: The Politics of Growth in the Newly Industrializing Countries — Haggard, Stephan
• China’s Second Revolution: Reform After Mao. — Harding, Harry
• Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress. — Harrison, Lawrence E., and Samuel P. Huntington
• The Hidden People of North Korea: Everyday Life in the Hermit Kingdom. — Hassig, Ralph C., and Kongdan Oh
• The Black Death: A Personal History. — Hatcher, John
• The Century of Revolution, 1603–1714. — Hill, Christopher
• The Conquest of the Incas. — Hemming, John
• The Strange Birth of Colonial Democracy: New South Wales, 1848–1884. — Hirst, John B.
• An Economic History of West Africa — Hopkins, Anthony G.
• The Making of Modern Japan. — Jansen, Marius B.
• The Dissolution of the Habsburg Monarchy. — Jászi, Oscar
• The Robber Barons. — Josephson, Matthew
• The Emperor: Downfall of an Autocrat. — Kapuściński, Ryszard
• Memoirs of a Revolutionary — Kropotkin, Peter
• The Jamestown Project — Kupperman, Karen O
• The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor. — Landes, David S.
• Country of Bullets: Chronicles of War. — León, Juanita
• Mao’s Last Revolution. — MacFarquhar, Roderick, and Michael Schoenhals
• Very Brave or Very Foolish? Memoirs of an African Democrat. — Masire, Quett K. J.
• The Party: The Secret World of China’s Communist Rulers. — McGregor, Richard
• Strong Societies and Weak States: State-Society Relations and State Capabilities in the Third World. — Migdal, Joel S.
• After the Ice: A Global Human History 20,000–5000 BC. — Mithen, Stephen
• The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress. — Mokyr, Joel
• Structure and Change in Economic History. — North, Douglass C.
• The Rise of the Western World: A New Economic History. — North, Douglass C., and Robert P. Thomas
• Violence and Social Orders: A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History. — North, Douglass C., John J. Wallis, and Barry R. Weingast
• The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities. — Olson, Mancur C.
• Out Of Mao’s Shadow: The Struggle for the Soul of a New China. — Pan, Philip P.
• King Khama, Emperor Joe and the Great White Queen. — Parsons, Q. Neil
• Development Economics — Perkins, Dwight H., Steven Radelet, and David L. Lindauer
• One Kind of Freedom: The Economic Consequences of Emancipation — Ransom, Roger L., and Richard Sutch
• The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time. — Sachs, Jeffery B.
• The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization. — Ward-Perkins, Bryan