The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of LibertyPenguin, 24. ruj 2019. - Broj stranica: 576 From the winners of the 2024 Nobel Prize for Economics and the authors of the international bestseller Why Nations Fail "Why is it so difficult to develop and sustain liberal democracy? The best recent work on this subject comes from a remarkable pair of scholars, Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson. In their latest book, The Narrow Corridor, they have answered this question with great insight." —Fareed Zakaria, The Washington Post In Why Nations Fail, Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson argued that countries rise and fall based not on culture, geography, or chance, but on the power of their institutions. In their new book, they build a new theory about liberty and how to achieve it, drawing a wealth of evidence from both current affairs and disparate threads of world history. Liberty is hardly the "natural" order of things. In most places and at most times, the strong have dominated the weak and human freedom has been quashed by force or by customs and norms. Either states have been too weak to protect individuals from these threats, or states have been too strong for people to protect themselves from despotism. Liberty emerges only when a delicate and precarious balance is struck between state and society. There is a Western myth that political liberty is a durable construct, arrived at by a process of "enlightenment." This static view is a fantasy, the authors argue. In reality, the corridor to liberty is narrow and stays open only via a fundamental and incessant struggle between state and society: The authors look to the American Civil Rights Movement, Europe’s early and recent history, the Zapotec civilization circa 500 BCE, and Lagos’s efforts to uproot corruption and institute government accountability to illustrate what it takes to get and stay in the corridor. But they also examine Chinese imperial history, colonialism in the Pacific, India’s caste system, Saudi Arabia’s suffocating cage of norms, and the “Paper Leviathan” of many Latin American and African nations to show how countries can drift away from it, and explain the feedback loops that make liberty harder to achieve. Today we are in the midst of a time of wrenching destabilization. We need liberty more than ever, and yet the corridor to liberty is becoming narrower and more treacherous. The danger on the horizon is not "just" the loss of our political freedom, however grim that is in itself; it is also the disintegration of the prosperity and safety that critically depend on liberty. The opposite of the corridor of liberty is the road to ruin. |
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... enforce laws , and contain violence . As Locke puts it : Where there is no law there is no freedom . Yet Syrians had started protesting to gain some freedoms from Assad's auto- cratic regime . As Adam ruefully recalled : Ironically , we ...
... enforce laws , and contain violence . As Locke puts it : Where there is no law there is no freedom . Yet Syrians had started protesting to gain some freedoms from Assad's auto- cratic regime . As Adam ruefully recalled : Ironically , we ...
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... enforce laws , and provide public services that are critical for a life in which people are empowered to make and pursue their choices . A strong , mobilized society is needed to control and shackle the strong state . Doppelgänger ...
... enforce laws , and provide public services that are critical for a life in which people are empowered to make and pursue their choices . A strong , mobilized society is needed to control and shackle the strong state . Doppelgänger ...
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... enforced , and the state starts providing services to its citizens . It is a process because the state and its elites must learn to live with the shackles society puts on them and different segments of society have to learn to work ...
... enforced , and the state starts providing services to its citizens . It is a process because the state and its elites must learn to live with the shackles society puts on them and different segments of society have to learn to work ...
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... of unequal power , whether enforced by threats or by other social means , such as customs , will create a form of dominance , because it amounts to being subject to arbitrary sway : being subject to the potentially 6 THE NARROW CORRIDOR.
... of unequal power , whether enforced by threats or by other social means , such as customs , will create a form of dominance , because it amounts to being subject to arbitrary sway : being subject to the potentially 6 THE NARROW CORRIDOR.
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... enforce laws , resolve conflicts , and protect their citizens . It confers on them official respect . Just as Hobbes ... enforcing their laws , killings declined . The Leviathan controlled the Warre of " every man , against every ...
... enforce laws , resolve conflicts , and protect their citizens . It confers on them official respect . Just as Hobbes ... enforcing their laws , killings declined . The Leviathan controlled the Warre of " every man , against every ...
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WILL TO POWER | 74 |
ECONOMICS OUTSIDE THE CORRIDOR | 97 |
ALLEGORY OF GOOD GOVERNMENT | 126 |
THE EUROPEAN SCISSORS | 152 |
MANDATE OF HEAVEN | 201 |
BROKEN RED QUEEN | 237 |
THE PAPER LEVIATHAN | 338 |
WAHHABS CHILDREN | 370 |
RED QUEEN OUT OF CONTROL | 390 |
INTO THE CORRIDOR | 427 |
LIVING WITH THE LEVIATHAN | 464 |
Acknowledgments ཚུཚུགྲུརྩ | 499 |
Sources for Maps | 517 |
Index | 543 |
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