Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

Acemoglu and Robinson's Why Nations Fail reads like a thousand-year dataset for anyone building institutions around transformative technology. The argument is monocausal by design, and that's both…

A map drawn on power, technology and planetary limits gives six political positions, and the most desirable one is empty. I have never much wanted to write about politics here. The longer I spend…