Abstract
Gönül Dinçer from Gazi University Department of Economics reviews “Why Nations Fail - The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty” by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson. A summary of theoretical framework of the book is provided in this review with some commentaries on the theory of the writers and the Turkish translation of the book.

Key words: Development economics, comparative country studies, political institutions, economic institutions. JEL Classification: O17, O57, Y30.