The limits of a single theory for why nations fail

What do you disagree with in Why Nations Fail?

Its central argument is useful for thinking, but its explanation of national success and failure is too linear.

Why Nations Fail has a strong organizing argument that can make students test their assumptions about institutions. Its theory proceeds too linearly for the complexity of historical change. States can follow different paths because political, economic, cultural, geographic, and contingent factors interact instead of forming one causal chain. The book works as a starting proposition, not a complete explanation.