Nature Vs. Nurture In Guns, Germs And Steel By Jared Diamond

Nature vs. Nurture: State Development Edition In his well known piece, Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond proposes that the differences between populations of different continents is not due to differences in the people, but of the environment. There are, of course innumerable differences to be found among the environments that each continent has to offer, however, Diamond stresses only a few. They include: wild plants and animals native to the area- which affect a society’s surplus thus allowing the society to move beyond their basic need- a group 's ability to travel and/or migrate both intercontinental and to other continents- this would allow for trade and access to other goods, and exposure to alternate philosophies and illness- and the size of the continent and population allowing for more potential inventors, competing societies, and groups to exchange with (Diamond, 1999). Diamond’s theory lends to the concept of how our environment shapes us. It’s the nurture of Nature vs Nurture on the large scale. There are countless things that we cannot control about ourselves, where

One of the most effective ways of doing this is through a free market economy system. Although, it is deliberated as to when free market characteristics should be implemented in the nation’s developmental process “It is widely recognised by economists and policymakers that high levels of inequality and low level of social mobility can have a negative effect on growth.” (O’Driscoll, Hoskins, 2003) Both concepts of equality and social mobility are often common traits of free markets. Having access to equal rights and the ability to freely trade and exchange with others are what a free market economy should protect and the Legatum Institute even uses these qualities as representation of a free market for their promotion of