To understand economics, it is crucial to define wealth, and understand how it is created, destroyed, stored and managed. This edited volume assembles high-qual

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Lynn and Vanhanen test the hypothesis on the causal relationship between the average national intelligence (IQ) and the gap between rich and poor countries by e

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The book presents estimates of total wealth for nearly 120 countries, using economic theory to decompose the wealth of a nation into its component pieces: produ