Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy Illustrated Editi

Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy 

by Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson 2006

https://www.amazon.ca/Economic-Origins-Dictatorship-Democracy-Acemoglu/dp/0521671426

What forces lead to democracy's creation? Why does it sometimes consolidate only to collapse at other times? Written by two of the foremost authorities on this subject in the world, this volume develops a framework for analyzing the creation and consolidation of democracy. It revolutionizes scholarship on the factors underlying government and popular movements toward democracy or dictatorship. Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson argue that different social groups prefer different political institutions because of the way they allocate political power and resources. 

Their book, the subject of a four-day seminar at Harvard's Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences, was also the basis for the Walras-Bowley lecture at the joint meetings of the European Economic Association and Econometric Society in 2003 and is the winner of the John Bates Clark Medal. Daron Acemoglu is Charles P. Kindleberger Professor of Applied Economics at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received the 2005 John Bates Clark Medal awarded by the American Economic Association as the best economist working in the United States under age 40. He is the author of the forthcoming text Introduction to Modern Economic Growth. 

James A. Robinson is Professor of Government at Harvard University. He is a Harvard Faculty Associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and a member of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research’s Program on Institutions, Organizations, and Growth. He is coeditor with Jared Diamond of the forthcoming book Natural Experiments in History.

什麽力量導致民主的產生？ 為什麽有時鞏固隻是在其他時候崩潰？ 本書由世界上關於這一主題的兩位最重要的權威撰寫，為分析民主的建立和鞏固製定了一個框架。 它徹底改變了關於政府和大眾運動走向民主或獨裁的因素的學術研究。 Daron Acemoglu 和 James Robinson 認為，不同的社會群體因其分配政治權力和資源的方式而偏好不同的政治製度。

 

他們的書是哈佛大學社會科學基礎研究中心為期四天的研討會的主題，也是 2003 年歐洲經濟協會和計量經濟學會聯席會議上 Walras-Bowley 演講的基礎，並且是獲獎者 約翰貝茨克拉克獎章。 Daron Acemoglu 是麻省理工學院 Charles P. Kindleberger 應用經濟學教授。 他獲得了美國經濟學會頒發的 2005 年約翰·貝茨·克拉克獎章，作為在美國 40 歲以下工作的最佳經濟學家。他是即將出版的《現代經濟增長導論》一書的作者。

 

詹姆斯·A·羅賓遜 (James A. Robinson) 是哈佛大學政府學教授。 他是 Weatherhead 國際事務中心的哈佛大學教員助理，也是加拿大高級研究所製度、組織和成長項目的成員。 他與 Jared Diamond 共同編輯了即將出版的曆史自然實驗一書。