They seemed largely complementary to me? Guns, Germs and Steel was mostly about how people, culture, ideas and skills spread across the world, whereas Why Nations Fail seemed to be mostly about what happens after that, at a nation state level.
To be honest I didn't understand why they felt the need to position it as a rebuttal of GG&S when reading it either.
To be honest I didn't understand why they felt the need to position it as a rebuttal of GG&S when reading it either.