daron acemoglu james robinson why nations fail

',the nation-state and its society grew out of the medieval kingdom and feudalism in whose framework the family and household unit have an importance unequaled in classical antiquity.the royal household, representing a given territorial region and ruling the feudal lords as primus inter pares, did not pretend, like an absolute ruler, to be the head of one family. There was some difference between two feudalisms, but it inculcated and nourished the mind of obligation (George Sansom, Japan : A Short Cultural History, The Cresset ``Press, 1962 ). It shored up and strengthened people' political consciousness.' There was another part in the world which had the experience, Japan. He said, 'The rise and development of feudalism in Western Europe. He was asked in 2001 by a Japanese newspaper what was in his view the single most important experience of the human kind during the past two thousand years A.D. Gregory Clark, a son of the famous British-Australian economist, lives in Japan.

It is a historical accident that obtained in the West. A good balance between the power of society and that of the state cannot be struck by technical or industrial engineering. History does not have any end toward which it inevitably moves. Fukuyama's The End of History sold very well in Japan, too. He talked about his The Narrow Corner: The States, Societies and The Fate of Liberalism. Acemoglu had an interview with a Japanese weekly, Nikkei Business.

Daron acemoglu james robinson why nations fail