text: poorer nations are poor not because of the way the gloval economic system works but because? they lack modern social organisations and values is fundamental to modernisation theory. agree or disagree with this view.  give three detailed reasons for your answer and illustrate with examples where possible. most of eternity was poverty. something radical happened in the last few-hundred-years, in the west. 1. the enlightenment fostered thinking, and thinking that you could create something. 2. the abandonment of primitive concepts such as serfdoms, replaced by property ownership which gives people a vested interest in continually improving, rather than stagnating. 3. the means to displace existing products & technologies, w/o being slaughtered for it.  all of this really means the freedom to act and the protection by the government to be free. look at the poor nations & you'll see there are no institutions of freedom.