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The Narrow Corridor
- States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty
- Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
- Length: 23 hrs and 44 mins
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By the authors of the international best seller Why Nations Fail, based on decades of research, this powerful new big-picture framework explains how some countries develop towards and provide liberty while others fall to despotism, anarchy or asphyxiating norms - and explains how liberty can thrive despite new threats.
Liberty is hardly the 'natural' order of things; usually states have been either too weak to protect individuals or too strong for people to protect themselves from despotism. There is also a happy Western myth that where liberty exists, it's a steady state, arrived at by 'enlightenment'. But liberty emerges only when a delicate and incessant balance is struck between state and society - between elites and citizens. This struggle becomes self-reinforcing, inducing both state and society to develop a richer array of capacities, thus affecting the peacefulness of societies, the success of economies and how people experience their daily lives.
Explaining this new framework through compelling stories from around the world, in history and from today - and through a single diagram on which the development of any state can be plotted - this masterpiece helps us understand the past and present, and analyse the future.
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- Vikram
- 17-02-22
interplay of state and society
The sucess of a state or society comes about by the strengthening of both is lucidly explained. Like a prequel to Why Nations fail, the book addresses the importance of the balance of power and the necessity of inclusion of everyone in the society.
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- Girish B Hukkeri
- 02-08-20
Seminal Work on Economy, Polity & Anthropology
I was searching for the literature addressing Economical, Political & Anthropological aspects of the state of the nations. Till now, we had to settle for the literature addressing either of those aspects of the nations. And once in a while, one would come across the literature addressing any two of them. Even then, generally, anthropological aspect was substituted by history, which in my view is very poor, partial & biased cousin!
I think, this book will be the basis of all future literature addressing the state & progress of the nations!
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- Be Happy
- 22-08-23
Amazing work!
Must read book. Highly recommended. Very informative and you will not regret reading it
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