Analysis Of The Wealth And Poverty Of Nations By David S. Landes

The wealth and Poverty of nations is a book that covers almost six centuries of long economic analysis of dozen of countries. The book has been written in a progression in economics throughout history. The main idea he believes the Western Nations became such wealthy nations because of political, economic institutions but most important social and culture. David S. Landes explains in the book by asking the big question, “why are some nations wealthily and other some nations poor? He explains Western America is better off the rest of the world. Landes explains this with three reasons, the first is that the West started focusing more on sciences and math well the first of the world still focused on religion. The second reason is that the Western …show more content…
Since than David S. Landes has tackled the questions with a different approach and just like other writers Landes was able to come up with his own answer. Through Landes book he uses sources such as work written by others, research analysis date, and personal thoughts. In chapter twelve, Landers refers his influences came from The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism" which were books written by Max Weber. He also uses books John Hicks, A theory of Economic history, and Carlo Cipolla, Before the industrial Revolution to help to see if it could have made a difference in the way Florence industry grew in the fifteenth century. Throughout the book his personal thoughts are influenced a lot by facts and research from history, for example in chapter seventeen, it talks about the rapid growth of the economy from the 1830s in Germany, which the only information can be found throughout written …show more content…
David S. Landes believes that culture plays a large run in the wealth of nations. In his research he found out that Western civilizations for the last 20 decades have dominated the world because of their culture. Landes explains many was how there is a gap between the wealthy and poor nations. Landes example was that a way a nation got wealthier was by conquering new lands and enslaving people to work, as you seen it happen in America. Landes also tries and do research on many countries on why or why they didn’t succeed as a nation. One of the main reasons was because they weren’t open to change, which their society didn’t focus on knowledge and work. She eventually didn’t lead to increased of productivity, or it did not create new technologies like Western