Book Review
Acta Politica (2008) 43, 136–139. doi:10.1057/palgrave.ap.5500215
Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy
D Acemoglu and J. A. Robinson
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2006, 416pp.
Price: £23.99, ISBN: 978-9-521-85526-6.
David Hollanders1
1Department of General Economics, Tinbergen Institute, University of Amsterdam. E-mail: hollanders@tinbergen.nl




