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The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty

Daron Acemoglu & James Robinson

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Martin Wolf liked it
So I like this book. I like the image of a narrow corridor as a way of thinking about how difficult the task of maintaining what many people in the contemporary world would think of as a civilized order is.

on fivebooks.com · 16 May 2023

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It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

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