A Dive into the Big Economies

How do political conditions lay the economic foundation of a country? How can the discovery of oil make a country have the richest royals, or the biggest hedge funds? How can tourism advance an economy at the base level and how it can be totally devastating at times? How can laws in some countries make it the hotbed for the world's richest? How can the deadliest monarch give the status of high-end to its fashion-house? How did Hong Kong become the most capitalistic from a communist nation? ...