My next book for A Year of Books is Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoğlu and James A. Robinson.
This book explores the different kinds of social institutions and incentives that nations have applied to encourage prosperity, economic development and elimination of poverty.
This is a good complement to our last book, Portfolios of the Poor, which focused on how people live in poverty. This one discusses why poverty exists and how to reduce it.
Also, here a couple of pictures of me reading on my iPad with my dog Beast. Apparently he likes A Year of Books too.