http://whynationsfail.com/blog/2012/8/1/mitt-jared-and-david.html
There's a lot at that blog that pen-l people would likely criticize. Patrick would be critical of their worries about populism in South Africa. Michael Lebowitz would reverse their estimation of Lula and Chavez. From a different angle, Brad DeLong has already critiqued their understanding of the need and effects of debt-financed government expenditures. As I have pointed out, Robert C. Allen and Prasannan Parthasarathi give very different interpretations of the Industrial Revolution recently featured by Danny Boyle at the Olympics. Allen would also argue that revolution was in fact necessary to overthrow Russian absolutism and make industrialization possible; Acemoglu and Robinson have only the harshest indictment of the Soviet revolution though they defend the necessity of the French Revolution and the Meiji Restoration. .
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