“Pretty much every agency or nonprofit out there acts under the assumption that if you help people grow economically, this will lead to democracy,” says Simon Johnson, a professor at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. Yet the widespread notion that increasing per capita income will cause democracy simply isn’t true, report Johnson and his colleagues in a recent research article. Instead, their analyses of 500 years of data from around the world show that complex historical…
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