More recently David S.Landes ( The Wealth and Poverty of Nation: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor) Like Weber and Landes is interested in explaining why some countries have done so well and others remain undeveloped.# Like Weber he is a careful researcher, emphasising such geographic factors as climate, resource, and rainfall and such economic ones as trade and manufacturing Western Europe and the relative lack of success of the other areas, as well as the differences between Northwest Europe and Southern Europe is cultural.