Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty

Daron Acemoğlu
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daron_Acemoğlu

Why Nations Fail - Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson
http://whynationsfail.com/

Why Nations Fail By Thomas L. Friedman Published: March 31, 2012 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/opinion/sunday/friedman-why-nations-fail.html



20 May 2012 Update

The New York Review of Books

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson

By Jared Diamond, June 7, 2012

Diamond´s final remark:

Why Nations Fail should be required reading for politicians and anyone concerned with economic development. The authors’ discussions of what can and can’t be done today to improve conditions in poor countries are thought-provoking and will stimulate debate. Donors and international agencies try to “engineer prosperity” either by foreign aid or by urging poor countries to adopt good economic policies. But there is widespread disappointment with the results of these well-intentioned efforts. Acemoglu and Robinson pithily diagnose the cause of these disappointing outcomes in their final chapter: “Attempting to engineer prosperity without confronting the root cause of the problems—extractive institutions and the politics that keeps them in place—is unlikely to bear fruit.”

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2012/jun/07/what-makes-countries-rich-or-poor/?pagination=false



Links regarding the lecture

Adam Smith (1723–1790)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Smith

- The Wealth of Nations (1776)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wealth_of_Nations

Clay Shirky: How cognitive surplus will change the world

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qu7ZpWecIS8

Clay Shirky
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay_Shirky

Cognitive Surplus: The Great Spare-Time Revolution
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/05/ff_pink_shirky/


Ushahidi - Crowdsourcing Crisis Information
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ushahidi
http://www.ushahidi.com

Thomas Szasz

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQegsqYhuZE

Drapetomania
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drapetomania

CCHR Co-Founder Dr. Thomas Szasz, Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Szasz

The Myth of Mental Illness, book by Szasz (1961)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Myth_of_Mental_Illness

An Interview with Thomas Szasz, MD. Online article on mental illness and psychotherapy for psychotherapists.
http://www.psychotherapy.net/interview/Thomas_Szasz


The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR): What We Believe



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ufOUHeS-ZY&feature=related

The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR)
http://www.cchrint.org/
http://www.cchrint.org/about-us/declaration-of-human-rights/

Harold Pinter - Nobel Prize For Literature Speech - Art, Truth & Politics

Harold Pinter (1930-2008)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Pinter
http://www.haroldpinter.org

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2005: "who in his plays uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression's closed rooms"

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2005/index.html

Nobel Lecture Art, Truth & Politics

Video: http://nobelprize.org/mediaplayer/index.php?id=620

Text: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2005/pinter-lecture-e.html

The Century of the Self

Documentary in four episodes produced by Adam Curtis 2002

"This series is about how those in power have used Freud's theories to try and control the dangerous crowd in an age of mass democracy." - Adam Curtis

A must see – I guarantee

The Century of the Self, Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Century_of_the_Self

The Century of the Self, BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/features/century_of_the_self.shtml

How Freud got under our skin, The Observer, Sunday 10 March 2002
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2002/mar/10/medicalscience.highereducation

The Unspoken Rule of Media Reporting: The BBC's The Century of the Self, Media Alert:
http://www.medialens.org/alerts/02/020403_de_Media_Century.html


Episode One: Happiness Machines



http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6718420906413643126&hl=en


Episode Two: The Engineering of Consent



http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-678466363224520614


Episode Three: There is a Policeman Inside All Our Head: He Must Be Destroyed



http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6111922724894802811


Episode Four: Eight People Sipping Wine in Kettering



http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1122532358497501036


Edward Bernays (1891-1995)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays

Crowd psychology
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowd_psychology

Gustave Le Bon (1841-1931)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Le_Bon

- The Crowd; study of the popular mind
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/445

- The Psychology of Revolution
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/448

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Freud

- Dream Psychology
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/15489

- Civilization and Its Discontents, 1929
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilization_and_its_Discontents
http://www.archive.org/details/CivilizationAndItsDiscontents

Anna Freud (1895–1982)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Freud

Counterculture of the 1960s
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterculture_of_the_1960s

Werner Erhard (born 1935)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_H._Erhard

Erhard Seminars Training
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erhard_Seminars_Training

Landmark Education
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landmark_Education

Jürgen Habermas (born 1929)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jürgen_Habermas

Hippie
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippies

Walter Lippmann (1889-1974)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Lippmann

Public Opinion by Walter Lippmann
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext04/pbpnn10.txt

Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979) 

Fritz Pearls (1893-1970)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Perls

Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957)

Jerry Rubin (1938–1994)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Rubin

Jacob Leib Talmon (1916–1980)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._L._Talmon

- The Origins of Totalitarian Democracy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Origins_of_Totalitarian_Democracy

- Totalitarian democracy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totalitarian_democracy

Youth International Party
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yippie

Wilhelm Reich

Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Reich

READ THIS BOOK THAT HIGHLIGTH THE IDEA OF THE NORMAL:
Listen, Little Man! (1945) 
http://www.listenlittleman.com/

Listen, Little Man! is a famous essay by Wilhelm Reich.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listen,_Little_Man!

The Mass Psychology of Fascism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mass_Psychology_of_Fascism

The Mass Psychology of Fascism
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/archivos_pdf/masspsychology_fascism.pdf

Orgone
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orgone

The Wilhelm Reich Museum
http://www.wilhelmreichmuseum.org

Dangerous Knowledge

This is just a quick fix made 071213

This documentary can now be found here in five parts

http://www.dailymotion.com/embed/video/xdoe8u
http://www.dailymotion.com/embed/video/xdoitj
http://www.dailymotion.com/embed/video/xdoj7y
http://www.dailymotion.com/embed/video/xdoj8c
http://www.dailymotion.com/embed/video/xdojop


BBC Two: “In this one-off documentary, David Malone looks at four brilliant mathematicians - Georg Cantor, Ludwig Boltzmann, Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing - whose genius has profoundly affected us, but which tragically drove them insane and eventually led to them all committing suicide.”

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/features/dangerous-knowledge.shtml


Georg Cantor (1845-1918)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Cantor

Ludwig Boltzmann (1844-1906)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Boltzmann

Kurt Gödel (1906-1978)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Gödel

Alan Turing (1912-1954)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing