What are the best books for understanding the world?
Non-FictionNamed in 2 of 6 answers
#12
13.4
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Why Nations Fail
A 2012 non-fiction book by American economists Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson, arguing that political and economic institutions drive prosperity and poverty.
1 questions · 1 categories · As of Nov 12, 2026
- Best category rank
- #89
- Non-Fiction · of 237
- Questions
- 1
- 1 categories
- Answers naming it
- 2/6
- Of the answers measured on this brand's questions
Visibility by category
| Categories | Category rank | Questions | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Non-Fiction | #89of 237 | 1 | 13.4 |
Ranking by question
Named alongside in Non-Fiction
Brands named in the same answers as Why Nations Fail in the last four weeks, counted in answers.
- 13A Short History of Nearly Everything
- 23Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
- 33Guns, Germs, and Steel
- 43Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
- 53Thinking in Systems: A Primer
- 63Thinking, Fast and Slow
- 72The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
- 82The Dawn of Everything
- 92The Righteous Mind
- 102The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
- 1111984
- 121Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
- 131Being and Time
- 141Collapse
- 151Crony Capitalism in America
- 161Debt: The First 5,000 Years
- 171How the World Really Works: A Scientist’s Guide to Our Past, Present, and Future
- 181One Hundred Years of Solitude
- 191Philosophical Investigations
- 201Predictably Irrational
Sources cited when this brand is named
Sites the answers naming this brand cited in the last four weeks. Counts are citing answers.
| Rank | Source | Citing answers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | goodreads.com | 2 |
| 2 | archaeosnack.org | 1 |
| 3 | bacheloroftravel.com | 1 |
| 4 | bookauthority.org | 1 |
| 5 | bookjelly.com | 1 |
| 6 | cfr.org | 1 |
| 7 | drmani.com | 1 |
| 8 | guides.pnw.edu | 1 |
| 9 | lse.ac.uk | 1 |
| 10 | markmanson.net | 1 |
Named by surface, by question
For the brand's best questions: of each surface's 1 answers, how many named it.
| Questions |  Google AI Overviews |  ChatGPT |  Claude | Gemini | Google AI Mode | Microsoft Copilot |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1What are the best books for understanding the world? | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |