books.google.co.uk - The years since World War II have seen rapid shifts in the relative positions of different countries and regions. Leading political economist Mancur Olson offers a new and compelling theory to explain these shifts in fortune and then tests his theory against evidence from many periods of history and...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_Rise_and_Decline_of_Nations.html?id=GEkSusqBH84C&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Rise and Decline of Nations
