The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor (W W Norton & Company; 1998)

DAVID S. LANDKS is professor emeritus of history

and economics at Harvard University and the author

of Revolution in Time and Prometheus Unbound.

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