Brockman, Inc. Hotlist Frankfurt Book Fair 2016 LitAg / Hall 6.3 - Tables 13A, 13B, 14A and 14B a Katinka Matson Russell Weinberger Max Brockman BALANCE OF POWER The Race Between State and Society By Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson [US — Penguin Press, UK — Viking, Germany — Fischer Verlag, Netherlands — Nieuw Amsterdam, Italy — Il Saggiatore, Spain — Duesto, Brazil — Intrinseca, Greece — Livanis, Korea — Sigongsa, Taiwan — Acropolis, Vietnam — Tre Publishing, Audio — Penguin RH; Proposal and sample chapter; 500 pages; Delivery: December 2018] Balance of Power is the important, groundbreaking new book by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson, authors of Why Nations Fail, a widely acclaimed international bestseller that has sold close to half a million copies in English, and hundreds of thousands in translations around the world. "Balance of Power," Acemoglu and Robinson write, "develops an entirely original thesis about the diversity of the ways in which states function, resolve conflicts, provide public services and more broadly use their powers. It is the logical extension of a research agenda we have been developing together for twenty years, and we have a great deal to offer on this topic. We have demonstrated our ability not only to produce original, thought- provoking social science works but also to reach and explain our ideas to a broad audience." DARON ACEMOGLIU 1s the Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was the recipient of the John Bates Clark Medal in 2005, awarded every two years to the best economist in the United States under the age of forty by the American Economic Association, and the Erwin Plein Nemmers prize, awarded every two years for work of lasting significance in economics. He holds Honorary Doctorates from the University of Utrecht, Bosporus University, and the University of Athens. JAMES A. ROBINSON is an economist and political scientist who is cu