At the turn of the third millennium, a number of books were published in which their authors, among them eminent economic historians and economists, undertook to identify the reasons for wealth and poverty worldwide.This paper aims to present the main works of the recent years, which focused on income disproportions occurring globally and their possible reasons. A particular attention has been given to the latest work by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson Why Nations Fail. The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty (2013), in which the authors, on the example of dozens of historical cases, attempt to explain the origin of the differences existing between the wealthy and poor countries. The work is an institutional interpretation of history in which the authors attempt to answer the question how history shapes institutional development paths of different nations. In their opinion, history is not destiny, nor is it determined by geographical factors, cultural events or even ignorance of the rules or governors. Instead, it is determined by institutions.
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机译：在第三个千年之交，出版了许多书籍，其中包括著名的经济史学家和经济学家的作者致力于确定世界范围内造成财富和贫困的原因。本文旨在介绍近年来的主要著作。 ，重点关注全球范围内发生的收入不均及其可能原因。特别注意了达伦·阿西莫格鲁（Daron Acemoglu）和詹姆斯·鲁滨逊（James A. Robinson）为什么国家失败的最新工作。权力，繁荣与贫困的起源（2013年），作者以数十个历史案例为例，试图解释富国和穷国之间存在差异的起源。该作品是对历史的制度解释，作者试图回答历史如何塑造不同国家的制度发展道路的问题。他们认为，历史不是命运，也不是由地理因素，文化事件甚至是对规则或州长的无知决定的。相反，它由机构决定。
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