Episode · Freakonomics Radio · 2014-10-16
Books mentioned on 182. How Can Tiny Norway Afford to Buy So Many Teslas?
The Norwegian government parleys massive oil wealth into huge subsidies for electric cars. Is that carbon laundering or just pragmatic environmentalism?
Stephen Dubner discussed Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu and others.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Why Nations Fail
Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu and James A.
Discussed“Asimoglu is also the co-author with the Harvard political scientist James Robinson of a book called Why Nations Fail. In it, they argue that the type and quality of the political institutions in a country greatly influence its economic success.”
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Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Why Nations Fail
“That, again, is Darren Asimoglu, co-author of Why Nations Fail. So the image that you might want to have here in your head is, if you were a politically powerful group or dictator or a warlord,”
Passing Why Nations Fail
“Darren Asimoglu has not spent a lot of time studying Norway and its Scandinavian neighbors. His book, after all, is called Why Nations Fail, Not Why Nations Succeed. Even so, he knows a success story when he sees one.”