Description
Too often, debates about economic growth rely on a “magic pill,” a singular factor to explain prosperity, and miss the full picture. In How Nations Win, global entrepreneur and investor Henrik Ekelund argues that lasting prosperity depends on a more complete, encompassing, data-backed model for producing sustainable growth across time and geography.
Drawing from his study of two millennia of growth revolutions and thousands of pages of research—including close studies of “twin” pairs of similar nations with stark gaps in prosperity—Ekelund reveals the three forces that interact to fuel economies—freedom, order, and innovation—and their twelve underlying drivers. He maps how those drivers, like democracy, free markets, free trade, rule of law, economic stability, and market-driven innovation, create a “virtuous cycle” of productive investment. And he captures how today’s drift toward protectionism, authoritarianism, cronyism, and overbearing government puts that cycle at risk.
Readers will come away with a practical lens for smarter policy, investment, and civic choices:
- Identify the twelve drivers behind durable growth—and what happens when a nation gets strong in a few but weak in others
- Make sense of why similar countries diverge
- Understand how bottom-up entrepreneurship, private investors, and a humming financial system turn ideas into prosperity
- Navigate today’s headwinds—demographics, opportunity gaps, and carbon constraints—without abandoning growth
Whether you’re shaping business strategy, investing capital, or engaging in policy debates that will define the next decade, How Nations Win provides a clearer set of signals to watch and makes the case that prosperity is built on fundamentals that can be defended—if we recognize what’s at stake and act before erosion becomes collapse.
Product Details
Writer: Ekelund, Henrik
Release Date: 2027-05-11
FOC Date: 2027-04-06
Page Count: 384
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SKU: 9798902680789
Barcode: 9798902680789
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