Geferson

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“This book will show that while economic institutions are critical for determining whether a country is poor or prosperous, it is politics and political institutions that determine what economic institutions a country has.”
― Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: FROM THE WINNERS OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN ECONOMICS: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty

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“O Brasil se tornou o maior país escravagista do mundo. Esta é uma nação erguida por seis milhões de braços escravos – e sobre três milhões de cadáveres.”
― Eduardo Bueno

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“We call such institutions, which have opposite properties to those we call inclusive, extractive economic institutions—extractive because such institutions are designed to extract incomes and wealth from one subset of society to benefit a different subset.”
― Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

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“Politics is the process by which a society chooses the rules that will govern it.”
― Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

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