"... the Rise and Fall of Nations"

Inspired by the subtitle: “… the Rise and Fall of Nations” of The Reckoning: Financial Accountability and the Rise and Fall of Nations by Jacob Soll here a list of books with topics of similar scope:

• The Wealth and Poverty of Nations by David Landes
• Civilization: The West and the Rest by Niall Ferguson
• Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty by Daron Acemoğlu and James Robinson
• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
• and Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
• The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers by Paul Kennedy
• The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities by Mancur Olson
• The J Curve: A New Way to Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall by Ian Bremmer
• Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe by Norman Davies
• The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
• A ‘Short Treatise’ on the Wealth and Poverty of Nations (1613) by Antonio Serra

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• Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy by Francis Fukuyama
• World Order by Henry Kissinger

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• The Rise and Fall of Nations: Forces of Change in the Post-Crisis World by Ruchir Sharma