How Nations Win: Creating Prosperity Through Freedom, Order, and Innovation (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9798902680789)

Why do some countries surge ahead while others stall? Discover the practical levers that keep economies resilient, innovative, and wealth-building--levers we can use to protect prosperity before it slips away.

Too often, debates about economic growth rely on a "magic pill," a singular factor to explain prosperity, and miss the full picture. In How Nations Win, global entrepreneur and investor Henrik Ekelund argues that lasting prosperity depends on a more complete, encompassing, data-backed model for producing sustainable growth across time and geography.

Drawing from his study of two millennia of growth revolutions and thousands of pages of research--including close studies of "twin" pairs of similar nations with stark gaps in prosperity--Ekelund reveals the three forces that interact to fuel economies--freedom, order, and innovation--and their twelve underlying drivers. He maps how those drivers, like democracy, free markets, free trade, rule of law, economic stability, and market-driven innovation, create a "virtuous cycle" of productive investment. And he captures how today's drift toward protectionism, authoritarianism, cronyism, and overbearing government puts that cycle at risk.

Readers will come away with a practical lens for smarter policy, investment, and civic choices:

• Identify the twelve drivers behind durable growth--and what happens when a nation gets strong in a few but weak in others
• Make sense of why similar countries diverge
• Understand how bottom-up entrepreneurship, private investors, and a humming financial system turn ideas into prosperity
• Navigate today's headwinds--demographics, opportunity gaps, and carbon constraints--without abandoning growth

Whether you're shaping business strategy, investing capital, or engaging in policy debates that will define the next decade, How Nations Win provides a clearer set of signals to watch and makes the case that prosperity is built on fundamentals that can be defended--if we recognize what's at stake and act before erosion becomes collapse.

Author: Henrik Ekelund
ISBN-13: 9798902680789
Publisher: Matt Holt Books
Language: English
Published: 03/02/2027
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.09lbs