Countries

Countries asks why national outcomes diverge: how we measure whether a country is doing well, why some are rich and others poor, what a state can and cannot do to its own economy, and how the same divergence replays at the scale of a region and a city. Each chapter takes one question and follows the evidence to an answer.

All twelve chapters are now available below, from the gauge we read a country on to the divergence of nations, then regions, then cities. Every concept is treated here once, and the other volumes point back rather than restate.