Analyses

Wael B. Hallaq (né en 1955 en Palestine) est un universitaire palestinien, spécialiste du droit islamique, de la philosophie morale et de l’histoire intellectuelle islamique. Professeur à l’université Columbia University,…

Professor Ian Shapiro introduces the class “Power and Politics in Today’s World.” This course provides an examination of political dynamics and institutions over this past tumultuous quarter century, and the implications of these changes for what comes next. Among the topics covered are the decline of trade unions and enlarged role of business as political forces, changing attitudes towards parties and other political institutions amidst the growth of inequality and middle-class insecurity, the emergence of new forms of authoritarianism, and the character and durability of the unipolar international order that replaced the Cold War.

In today’s video, we discuss a topic critical to understanding economic growth: the power of institutions. To better shed light on this, we’re going to look at an example that’s…

Why do some nations thrive while others lag behind? Nobel laureate James Robinson, co-author of « Why Nations Fail », discusses how political and economic institutions determine the economic trajectory of nations.…