U.S. Constitution: and American exceptionalism, 306–7; and checks and balances, 68; and evolution of police powers, 333; and gun rights, 328; and NSA data collection, 336; and protection of rights, 46–47, 48, 49, 53; and ratification negotiations, 148; and representation mechanisms, 59; and Shackled Leviathan, 27; and slavery, 315; and state building, 316–17. See also Bill of Rights and specific amendments
U.S. Department of Justice, 304, 309, 311, 321–22, 333
U.S. House of Representatives, 59, 333
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, 318
U.S. Post Office, 318–19
U.S. Supreme Court, 310, 328, 330
U.S. Treasury Department, 332
Uthman, 106
Uzbekistan, 455
Vaishyas, 238–39
van der Lubbe, Marinus, 399
Vancouver, George, 116
Vargas, Getúlio, 346
Vargas Llosa, Mario, 422
varna (caste) system, 238, 242, 244–45, 252, 255, 264
vassalage, 170, 175, 414, 417
Vedas, 244, 251–52
Venerable Bede, 164
Venezuela, 422, 425
Venice, Italy, 139–40, 418
Verano, Bernard de, 129
Vereinsmeierei (“associational mania”), 393
Versailles peace treaty, 376, 400
vidatha, 251–52
Vietnam War, 334
vigilante justice, 25
Vikings (Norse), 185
Village Communities in the East and West (Maine), 261
villeins, 175, 177–78
Vindication of the Rights of Woman, A (Wollstonecraft), 192–93
Virginia, 49, 313–15
Virginia Plan, 68
Visconti family, 416
Visigoths, 154, 280
Voltaire, 266–67
voting rights, 26, 190, 194, 321–23
wage policies, 468–71, 474–77, 482
Wahhab, Muhammad ibn Abd al-, 371–75, 377, 388
Wahhabism, 372–76, 378, 380–81
Waldo, George E., 333
Wales, 165, 172
Wałeşa, Lech, 283, 284
Wang Mang, 209
Wang Xiuchu, 213
Wanniski, Jude, 108–9
War of Independence (American Revolution), 47, 49, 51, 322, 358
War on Poverty, 308, 324–25
War on Terror, 335, 489–91
Warren, Earl, 312
Warring States period (China), 203, 204, 206, 221, 345
Washington, Booker T., 460
Washington, George, 46, 48–49, 149, 313, 317, 399
Watt, James, 194, 196, 198
wealth inequality, 331–32, 476–78
Webber, John, 89
Weber, Eugen, 346
Weber, Max, 12, 341–45, 352
Weimar Republic, 391–405, 413, 419–20, 424, 426, 483
Weinstein, Harvey, 496
welfare state, 324–25, 464–67, 470, 472
well-field system, 206–11, 222–23, 229, 234
Wels, Otto, 390–91
Wenham, George, 179–80
Wenzhou, China, 230–31
wergeld, 168
Wessex, 164, 165, 166, 167
Western Roman Empire, 136, 153, 164, 186, 199
Whiskey Rebellion, 48, 317
White Lotus sect, 218
“white” Turks, 440–41
Why I Am a Liberal (Beveridge), 492
Why Nations Fail (Acemoglu and Robinson), 114, 145–46, 278–79, 281
Widogast, 162
Wiene, Robert, 394
Wilberforce, William, 198
Wilhelm II, Kaiser, 392–93
“will to power,” 79–80, 86–87, 94–96, 107, 127, 151, 344
William the Conqueror, 169–71
Williams, George Washington, 458
Wilson, Darren, 304
Wilson, Woodrow, 323
wiretapping, 334, 335–36
Wiser, William, 248, 249–50
Wisogast, 162
witan (assembly), 164–69, 174
witches and witchcraft, 55–59, 80, 86, 95
Wollstonecraft, Mary, 192–93
women’s rights and gender norms: in Colombia, 449; in Congo, 100; in England, xvii, 191–94; female suffrage, xvii, 26, 194, 394; and international human rights movement, 461; in Muslim countries, xvi–xvii, 381–84, 387, 388; and Pashtunwali system, 23–24; in Polynesian cultures, 91–92
Women’s Social and Political Union, xvii
Woodward, Ralph Lee, 298
World Bank, 263
World Economic Forum, 383
World Health Organization (WHO), 461
World War I, 60, 375, 387, 394, 439
World War II, 327, 334, 436, 441, 464
Wu, Emperor, 209
Wu Jingzi, 228
Wu San-kuei, 214
Wulfhelm, Archbishop, 167
Wyoming, 24–26
Xi Jinping, 17, 233
Xiao, Lord, 203
Xinjiang Province, China, 235–36
Xiushui market, Beijing, 232
Xu Shexin, 70–71
Xunzi, 202, 204
Yadav, Lalu Prasad, 262, 264
Yang Jisheng, 14–16
Yathrib, 77
Yeltsin, Boris, 284–87
Yorubaland, 4, 53–54
Yoshida, Shigeru, 438
Young, John, 89–90
Young Turks, 439
Yuan dynasty, 210, 223
Yung-ch’ang County, China, 212
Zaid ibn al-Kattab, 372
zakat, 372, 374
Zambia, 97
zamindars, 259–60
Zapotec civilization, 147, 149–52
Zhang Fuhong, 14
Zhang Guiyi, 70–71
Zhao Hua, 70
Zhao Ziyang, 443
Zhu Yuanzhang, 210
Zichan, 202
Zimbabwe, 357, 453–54, 462
Zoticus, 158–60
Zulu nation, 80–83, 83–87, 120–21
Zuluaga, Luis Eduardo, 353
Zuo Zhuan, 201–2
Zviadists, 93
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Daron Acemoglu is an Institute Professor at MIT. In 2005 he received the John Bates Clark Medal, given to economists under age forty judged to have made the most significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge; in 2012 he was awarded the Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in Economics for work of lasting significance; and in 2016 he received the BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Economics, Finance, and Management for his lifetime contributions.
James A. Robinson, a political scientist and economist, is one of nine University Professors at the University of Chicago. Focused on Latin America and Africa, he is currently conducting research in Bolivia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sierra Leone, Haiti, and Colombia, where he has taught for many years during the summer at the University of the Andes in Bogotá.
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