success when states are "inclusive" rather than "extractive". That an organized and centralize state may be a critical component for economic success but that the centralization must avoid the path to extractive economics by an elite, and balance the need for centralization against interests of societies members. That the incentives created by inclusive organization seem to generate the associated trade-test innovation necessary for the creative destruction that has historically delivered economic growth. Creative destruction that perpetually threatens the controls by the elites of any organized and centralized state, but through trade and innovation creates the opportunities for a better and more prosperous life for those in broader society.
Why Nations Fail (2013) ACEMOGLU AND ROBINSON
Summary
" ... Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the
experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by
wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine?
Is it culture, the weather, geography? Perhaps ignorance of
what the right policies are?
Simply, no. None of these factors is either definitive or
destiny. Otherwise, how to explain why Botswana has become one of the
fastest-growing countries in the world, while other African nations, such as
Zimbabwe, the Congo, and Sierra Leone, are mired in poverty and violence? ..."
