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 The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our TimeBest Price: $7.93 Jeffrey Sachs uses his broad knowledge to frame the context of a call for action to end extreme... |  The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About ItBest Price: $15.77 What do we do with them? Prof. Collier of Oxford University, has done years of research,... |  Banker To The Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World PovertyBest Price: $6.48 This audio book was absolutely wonderful. I found it really inspiring and engaging. I was... |  Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable FutureBest Price: $7.86 I must admit, I wasn't particularly enthused about "Deep Economy" when I picked it... |  High Wire: The Precarious Financial Lives of American FamiliesBest Price: $14.49 This is a GREAT book and I would encourage every citizen of America to read it, young or old. ... |
 The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business (Collins Business Essentials)Best Price: $1.85 This book analyzes why established successful companies repeatedly miss "less... |  The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the TropicsBest Price: $11.95 The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics by William... |  One Economics, Many Recipes: Globalization, Institutions, and Economic GrowthBest Price: $21.50 I might not agree with significant parts of the book, but it is interesting and, as is true with... |  Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage OneBest Price: $13.95 This book is absolutely fantastic. Thomas Sowell is truly an intellectual of the highest breed.... |  Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and ProsperityBest Price: $15.50 Good Capitalism Bad Capitalism is an excellent book which provided the beginner economic student... |
 The Commanding Heights : The Battle for the World EconomyBest Price: $6.00 A book from Dr. L's class that help to shape my belief in freedom in the marketplace. A very... |  Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (The Institution for Social and Policy St)Best Price: $14.14 Scott's work is a meticulously-detailed analysis of the blinding effects of big-picture... |  Macroeconomics: Principles and Policy, 2007 UpdateBest Price: $55.00 This text is well known for using the Keynesian model in the teaching of economics; yet in the... |  In Defense of Globalization: With a New AfterwordBest Price: $6.90 "In Defense of Globalization" is a point by point rebuttal of the cacophony of... |  India: The Emerging GiantBest Price: $33.87 Among all the books on India written by economists (recently there have been quite a few) this... |
 The Competitive Advantage of NationsBest Price: $24.99 One of my favorites titles. I started my experience about Porter's Competitiveness by this book. |  From Third World to First : The Singapore Story: 1965-2000Best Price: $21.34 This book is a detailed account of Singapore's history beginning from its independence and its... |  Mr. China: A MemoirBest Price: $4.43 Tim Clissold's Mr. China provides an excellent view of how business was done in China in the... |  The Lords of Poverty: The Power, Prestige, and Corruption of the International Aid BusinessBest Price: $7.91 Disclosure time- I work in the aid industry. While I agree with much of what Hancock has to... |  The Divine Right of Capital: Dethroning the Corporate AristocracyBest Price: $6.82 Marjorie Kelly co-founded the magazine Business Ethics in 1987 and was its editor until 2006. ... |
 Rulers and Ruled in the US Empire: Bankers, Zionists and MilitantsBest Price: $5.76 This is the second book that I have read by James Petras- the first was 'The Power of Israel in... |  China Rising: Peace, Power, and Order in East AsiaBest Price: $15.24 China may be the United States' "strategic rival," but Kang prefers to examine East... |  A Billion Bootstraps: Microcredit, Barefoot Banking, and The Business Solution for Ending PovertyBest Price: $10.72 Bought this book on the recommendation of someone. It is an excellent read. Very well written... |  Reinventing Foreign AidBest Price: $35.00 The urgency of reducing poverty in the developing world has been the subject of a public... |  Economic Development (9th Edition) (Addison-Wesley Series in Economics)Best Price: $60.00 This book talks about many issues on economic development, and it also includes alternative... |
 Rethinking the Great Depression (American Ways Series)Best Price: $11.08 This is a brief and relatively easy to read monetarist review of 'the great depression'. It is... |  Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of EconomicsBest Price: $1.50 The author does a noble job of trying to integrate nearly everything including Darwinian... |  Capitalism as if the World MattersBest Price: $15.00 Activist Jonathon Porritt offers the startling proposal that capitalism may provide the best... |  Adam Smith in Beijing: Lineages of the Twenty-First CenturyBest Price: $18.99 "Adam Smith in Beijing" by Giovanni Arrighi delivers a sophisticated history and... |  Alternatives to Economic Globalization: A Better World Is PossibleBest Price: $2.17 An excellent cast of authors and leading thinkers cover many aspects of how current forms of... |
 Africa Unchained: The Blueprint for Africa's FutureBest Price: $19.19 "Africa Unchained" is a very interesting book. It proposes "the blueprint for... |  Medical Tourism in Developing CountriesBest Price: $26.96 If you want to know Medical Tourism from an economist point of view and the implications for... |  Prosperity and Violence: The Political Economy of DevelopmentBest Price: $15.88 Being a double major in political science and economics, it seems that I'm always looking at... |  China, Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the WorldBest Price: $2.72 China has the world's most rapidly changing large economy, Fishman details how hundreds of... |  The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information AgeBest Price: $6.93 Keep in mind that this book was written around 1997, before 9/11/2001. It is summer 2008 and... |
 Tropical Gangsters: One Man's Experience With Development And Decadence In Deepest AfricaBest Price: $6.75 I worked in Liberia for a year and could tell some of the same stories. Utter corruption at... |  Panarchy: Understanding Transformations in Human and Natural SystemsBest Price: $44.93 On balance, Resilience and the Behavior of Large-Scale Systems (Scientific Committee on Problems... |  A Contract with the EarthBest Price: $4.48 A lot of rehash of old ideas and trite science. I was disappointed, especially since i have... |  Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective (Sociology for a New Century Series)Best Price: $38.75 This book covers global development from colonialism, to 'de-colonization' to globalization in a... |  Promises Not Kept: Poverty and The Betrayal of Third World DevelopmentBest Price: $20.00 but it's just that. So if you're in the market for anything else, look.. well elsewhere. This... |
 Escaping the Resource Curse (Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia: Challenges in Development and Globalization)Best Price: $14.75 The wealth derived from natural resources can have a tremendous impact on the economics and... |  A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar AmericaBest Price: $6.48 "A Consumers' Republic" is one of those kinds of books that exists on the premise that... |  World Development Report 2008: Agriculture and Development (World Development Report) (World Development Report)Best Price: $22.10 For those who do not follow this field the World Bank is the main international funder of... |  How to Spend $50 Billion to Make the World a Better PlaceBest Price: $0.99 This books reviews the outcomes of the so-called Copenhagen consensus, in which a panel of... |  Rule of Experts: Egypt, Techno-Politics, ModernityBest Price: $19.57 Timothy Mitchell writes consistently on the Middle East in ways that challenge the... |
 The Price of a Dream: The Story of the Grameen BankBest Price: $6.00 Book received was just as described, received very quickly. Excellent. Would use this seller... |  Economics of Development, Sixth EditionBest Price: $88.00 I have recently had the pleasure to read this book. As a researcher and consultant, I have had... |  Pasteurs Quadrant: Basic Science and Technological InnovationBest Price: $18.50 This book is not about antiscientism, it is about accountibality of science funding. There are... |  Development EconomicsBest Price: $50.97 I used this textbook for an introductory Development Economics class and thought it was very... |  Economic Growth, 2nd EditionBest Price: $56.95 Economic Growth, by Sala-i-Martin anb Barro, has already become a classic. I can't think of... |
 For the Common Good: Redirecting the Economy toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable FutureBest Price: $13.77 This is a seminal work in the field of Ecological Economics, a real primer. Neatly organized... |  Javatrekker: Dispatches From the World of Fair Trade CoffeeBest Price: $8.16 This book is amazing! Dean Cycon is amazing! I've seen "Fair Trade" coffee in stores... |  Fefu and Her Friends (PAJ Books)Best Price: $8.93 "Fefu and Her Friends," by Maria Irene Fornes, is a witty and disturbing contemporary... |  The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social RigiditiesBest Price: $17.87 Most people recognize that there is something wrong about special interest groups. While most... |  False Dawn: The Delusions of Global CapitalismBest Price: $5.95 To understand the mechanisms of current world and national economics events, you need some... |
 The Green Parent: A Kid-Friendly Guide to Environmentally-Friendly LivingBest Price: $6.00 The Green Parent is an essential read for all parents and parents-to-be who endeavor to find... |  Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical PerspectiveBest Price: $17.68 Ha-Joon Chang argues that free trade and the principle of comparative advantage were used by... | |||
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