@andresbustamante6077Why Nations Fail and Debt are excellent books, but they don't explain every detail of how the world works. I'd personally recommend reading Seeing Like a State and The Narrow Corridor if you've already read Debt and Why Nations Fail.
@BKNeifertWell, it has a lot more to do with culture, than the moving of wealth. That's one aspect is the ability for the citizens to build wealth, but it's too simple. Some nations, the citizens build wealth, but they're absolute terror to live in, because there's no law or order, and that in effect causes another nation to conquer them, like the Aztecs; or Rome when they were sacked by the Visigoths, Vandals and Goths.
There were some interesting interplay, Theodorus the Great took over Rome, dispelled with the Senate, put Boethius in prison and executed him. This led to a dark age, which again relapsed when they put Boniface to death. It's generally, when the structure becomes corrupt. And the citizens can be a whole part of that corruption. You see in Israel, when Nebuchadnezzar sacked them, they were destabilized, and alienated from their history and virtue. They had an entirely novel culture at that time. During Isaiah, you could say it was the elite, but during Jeremiah, it was just the people's fault, really. They were really bad.1 like
There were some interesting interplay, Theodorus the Great took over Rome, dispelled with the Senate, put Boethius in prison and executed him. This led to a dark age, which again relapsed when they put Boniface to death. It's generally, when the structure becomes corrupt. And the citizens can be a whole part of that corruption. You see in Israel, when Nebuchadnezzar sacked them, they were destabilized, and alienated from their history and virtue. They had an entirely novel culture at that time. During Isaiah, you could say it was the elite, but during Jeremiah, it was just the people's fault, really. They were really bad. 1 like