Suriname
Mangré, Basti
This book deals with the 'Reverse Fortune Hypothesis'' - of the authors Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson - to see if it corresponds with Suriname when it was colonized by the Europeans. Even though in 1500 there were hardly any inhabitants living in Suriname, it did have enough fertile soil to grow plantation products on it, which had a large demand in Western Europe. Suriname got exploited by European colonists when "extractive institutions" we...