Development as Freedom
By: Amartya Sen
3.50
Format: 185 pages, Paperback
By the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics, an essential and paradigm-altering framework fo…
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1. Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance
By: Douglass C. North
4.02
Format: None pages, Paperback
An analytical framework for explaining the ways in which institutions and institutional change affe… read more
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2. The End of Poverty
By: Jeffrey D. Sachs , Bono
4.01
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
The landmark exploration of economic prosperity and how the world can escape from extreme poverty f… read more
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- politics
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- international development
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3. The Radical King
By: Cornel West , Martin Luther King Jr.
3.91
Format: 69 pages, Hardcover
A revealing collection that restores Dr. King as being every bit as radical as Malcolm X "The radic… read more
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4. The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality
By: Angus Deaton
3.57
Format: 160 pages, ebook
The world is a better place than it used to be. People are healthier, wealthier, and live longer. Y… read more
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5. Development as Freedom
By: Amartya Sen
3.50
Format: 185 pages, Paperback
By the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics, an essential and paradigm-altering framework fo… read more
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- economics
- india
- nonfiction
- political science
- international development
6. Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
By: Daron Acemoğlu , James A. Robinson
4.08
Format: 529 pages, Hardcover
Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the expert… read more
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"Central planning was just not good at replacing what the great eighteenth-century economist Adam Smith called the “invisible hand"-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
"As mudanças graduais também impediram aventuras em territórios inexplorados. O derrube violento do sistema significa que é necessário construir algo inteiramente novo, em vez daquilo que foi eliminad…"-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
"Sem o petróleo, os países do Médio Oriente são também todos pobres. (…) Foi a expansão e consolidação do Império Otomano, e é devido ao legado institucional desse império que o Médio Oriente continua…"-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
"A América do Norte tornou-se mais próspera precisamente porque adotou com entusiasmo as tecnologias e os progressos da Revolução Industrial. (…) A desigualdade no mundo atual é, em grande medida, uma…"-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
7. The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good
By: William Easterly
3.88
Format: None pages,
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8. Capital in the Twenty-First Century
By: Thomas Piketty , Arthur Goldhammer
4.61
Format: 313 pages, Hardcover
What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions abou… read more
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9. The Annihilation of Caste
By: B.R. Ambedkar
3.50
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
"What the Communist Manifesto is to the capitalist world, Annihilation of Caste is to India." --Ana… read more
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10. The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths
By: Mariana Mazzucato
3.96
Format: 289 pages, ebook
This book debunks the myth of the State as a large bureaucratic organization that can at best facil… read more
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11. The Worldly Philosophers
By: Robert L. Heilbroner
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Worldly Philosophersnot only enables us to see more deeply into our history but helps us better… read more
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12. The Road to Serfdom
By: Friedrich A. Hayek
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
A classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road … read more
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13. The Development Dictionary: A Guide to Knowledge as Power
By: Wolfgang Sachs
3.27
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
In this pioneering collection, some of the world's most eminent critics of development review the k… read more
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14. Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
By: Abhijit V. Banerjee , Esther Duflo
4.07
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2011 Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Best Business Book of the Year Award Billions of g… read more
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15. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
By: James C. Scott
4.20
Format: 461 pages, Paperback
Compulsory ujamaa villages in Tanzania, collectivization in Russia, Le Corbusier’s urban planning t… read more
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"An urban space where the police are the sole agents of order is a very dangerous place."-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
"Just as the general design of the city militates against an autonomous public life, so the design of the residential city militates against individuality."-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
"The authorized histories of revolutions, as Milovan Djilas points out, “describe the revolution as if it were the fruit of the previously planned action of its leaders."-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
"After seizing state power, the victors have a powerful interest in moving the revolution out of the streets and into the museums and schoolbooks as quick as possible, lest the people decide to repeat…"-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
16. An Uncertain Glory: India and Its Contradictions
By: Amartya Sen , Jean Drèze
4.45
Format: 122 pages, Hardcover
From two of India's leading economists, Jean Dreze (Hunger and Public Action) and Nobel Prize-winne… read more
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17. The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
By: Paul Collier
3.95
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In the universally acclaimed and award-winning The Bottom Billion, Paul Collier reveals that fifty … read more
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18. A Theory of Justice
By: John Rawls , None
4.46
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Since it appeared in 1971, John Rawls's A Theory of Justice has become a classic. The author has no… read more
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19. Capitalism and Freedom
By: Milton Friedman
3.97
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
Selected by the Times Literary Supplementas one of the "hundred most influential books since the wa… read more
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20. The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion
By: Sean Carroll
3.96
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The most trusted explainer of the most mind-boggling concepts pulls back the veil of mystery that h… read more
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21. Gambling on Development
By: Stefan Dercon
4.03
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
In the last thirty years, the developing world has undergone tremendous changes. Overall, poverty h… read more
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