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Question

Please provide 1-3 sentence answers for the following questions

Part 1

1. Why do the authors begin the book with the example of Nogales?

2. What was the Spanish strategy for colonization of Latin America

3. What was the "headright" system introduced in Jamestown in 1618?

4. Why did the previous systems in Jamestown fail?

Part 2

1. List a few reasons given by the authors as to why geography/climate cannot explain modern economic differences between countries

2. List a few reasons given by the authors as to why culture cannot explain modern economic differences between countries

3. List a few reasons given by the authors as to why the ignorance hypothesis cannot explain modern economic differences between countries.

Part 3

1. How do the authors define inclusive economic institutions?

2. What are the "engines of growth?"

3. What is the role of political institutions in a society?

4. Why don't societies always choose institutions that promote growth?

Part 4

1. Why was the Black Death a critical juncture?

2. Why was the Glorious Revolution such an important event?

3. Why was the development of the Atlantic Trade a critical juncture?

Part 5

1. What is the main point of the discussion of Soviet growth under Stalin?

Part 6

1. What point do the authors want to make in describing the rise and then decline of Venice as an economic power?

2. Why was the collapse of the Roman Empire a critical juncture?

Part 7

1. What point to the authors want to make in describing Queen Elizabeth's and James I's rejection of Lee's knitting machine?

2. List some important changes in England enabled by the Glorious Revolution.

3. Why did the industrial revolution occur in Britain?

Part 8

1. Why did the Ottoman Empire block the spread of the printing press?

2. Why did the Russians limit the number of factories in Moscow?

3. Why did the Habsburgs ban railway construction?

Part 9

1. How did the Dutch East India Company's spice trade "reverse the fortune" of the Spice Islands?

2. How did the slave trade lead to Africa's inability to participate in the industrial revolution?

Part 10

1. Why did the Industrial Revolution spread to Australia?

2. How the French Revolution help to spread inclusive institutions in Europe?

Part 11
1. Explain how the rule of law promotes "virtuous circle"

2. How did the Sherman Act help to create a virtuous circle in the U.S.?

Part 12

1. What are the forces that may lead extractive institutions fall into a "vicious circle?"

2. What is the iron law of oligarchy?

3. There's a good summary of three factors that "greatly facilitated the emergence of more inclusive political institutions following the Glorious Revolution and the French Revolution" near the end of the section entitled "The iron of oligarcy." What are those three factors?

Part 13

1. Why do nations fail today? (In 4-5 sentences.)

Part 14

1. What is meant by "Breaking the mold?"

2. List the three examples the authors give of "breaking the mold"

3. How did African Americans in the U.S. south, finally have a real chance of political inclusion?

Part 15

1. What is central to the authors' theory on understanding prosperity and poverty?