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Your comment reminds me of Rules for Rulers by CGP Grey. Great video and relevant to this discussion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs



If you like that video Why Nations Fail is basically 100x deeper explanation through examples of the last 12,000 years of history.


Are you referring to:

* James Robinson's 18m TED Talk [1]

* Daron Acemoglu's 90m lecture [2]

* Daron and James's 550 page book [3]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsZDlBU36n0

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRAkz13cpsk

[3] https://smile.amazon.com/Why-Nations-Fail-Origins-Prosperity...




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