- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
In their final chapter, Acemoglu and Robinson address what they rightly predicted would become a common criticism of their book. Most social scientists tend to emphasize that history is complex, every nation is unique, and multiple factors contribute to every outcome. But Why Nations Fail goes in the opposite direction: it attempts to explain a very wide range of examples through a single, relatively straightforward factor. This passage is Acemoglu and Robinson’s rebuttal to the misconception that their theory is overly simplistic. In their response, they give readers important guidelines for interpreting their argument.
Acemoglu and Robinson agree that global…