Alexander Lyngstad’s Reviews > Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty > Status Update

This just in! Economists discover third world exploitation might have contributed to inequality!!

Ay bro Africa’s poverty has nothing to do with capitalism, thats actually a fire inclusive institution bro, its got everything to do with extractive institutions broo (which were put in place by european imperialism fueled by capitalist forces) no connectionnn

They as though they are absolutely certain of their explanation of every development of which there are atleast 5-10 easily thought of alternative explanations

Thinly veiled american exceptionalism

When the Nobel Prize winner says something so american exceptionalism-coded you give him the European stare