An Inquiry on the Causes of the Wealth of Nations

What determines a nation's wealth?
Geography?
Policies?
Population?
I'm sure they all play a part.

But what's the MAIN determinant?

Policies play a pretty big part, there's a very strong correlation between economic freedom and economic prosperity.

natural resources > administration > rest

>But what's the MAIN determinant?

Allegiance to Lucifer

Unironically strong institutions and good luck, 50/50.

Average IQ of the population.

your nations prosperity being aligned with the jewish agenda

Citizens' productivity

Not only in the material order but also (and specially) in the mental and spiritual order

in the actual world iq in the past much more geography

Invert the first two and I agree.
See:
Singapore, Iceland, South Korea

The effort of a nation's people to want to be successful
Every nation on Earth with wealth had a culture where the people of that nation saw something of their nation, land, or culture that made them want to be successful.

Good leadership and strong institutions.

this is probably the best answer. Iceland of the past: poorer than even Africa probably
Iceland now: GDP per capita >50k iirc

Natural resources

Otherwise known as

IQ is not a determinant
Lynn data is bullshit

yeah but look at Brazil and argentina, absolute shit govt. and theyre still decent places to live.

If ur gonna say "well cingapore is better" ofc but only for rich ppl who can afford it everyone else is practically priced out

samefag

besides, cingapore has a Strategic geographical location without it literally nobody would give a shit.You NEED commerce to flourish and if you have nothing besides services to provide you can only go so far

Wow this post is fucking retarded.

Brazil is a terrible place to live. It has one of the worst murder rates in the world. Life expectancy is less than 73 years. It hasn't achieved full literacy. Poverty is endemic.

Argentina is nice precisely because they had a series of really good governments in the 19th century that had put the country on a path similar to Australia or Canada, even if in the 20th century it had governments that were bad, they just had to improve on this which was easier compared to Brazil.

If anything your examples prove my point, Singapore with no natural resources whatsoever, completely blows anything in South America out of the water.

South Korea has no natural resources either.

>iq
Not science, sorry. Iq is pseudoscience.