CSPAN2 Book TV March 1, 2010
>> how countries became rich and some became poor. the book is comparing the poverty of some countries with the prosperity of others or how we emerged out of what we would now consider poverty 200 years ago to the prosperity that we have today. so that's the first question. and that question -- those questions in a way have been in the news a lot recently because of the aftermath of the earthquake in haiti. and that really dramatizes how poor a country that is and what that means. and people can ask, you know, how does a country remain that poor? and we ...
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