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Economic Development eBooks

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  • Economics: A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Economics has the capacity to offer us deep insights into some of the most formidable problems of life, and offer solutions to them too. Combining a global approach with examples from everyday life, Partha Dasgupta describes the lives of two children who live very different lives in different parts of the world: in the Mid-West USA and in Ethiopia. He compares the obstacles facing them, and the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • China's Economy

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    Series series What Everyone Needs to Know
    China's economic growth has been revolutionary, and is the foundation of its increasingly prominent role in world affairs. It is the world's second biggest economy, the largest manufacturing and trading nation, the consumer of half the world's steel and coal, the biggest source of international tourists, and one of the most influential investors in developing countries from southeast Asia to ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Land and Freedom

    The MST, the Zapatistas and Peasant Alternatives to Neoliberalism

    The Zapatistas of Chiapas and the Landless Rural Workers' Movement (MST) of Brazil are often celebrated as shining examples in the global struggle against neoliberalism. But what have these movements achieved for their members in more than two decades of resistance and can any of these achievements realistically contribute to the rise of a viable alternative?Through a perfect balance of grassroots ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • How to Reform Capitalism

    It is quite normal to feel frustrated and sorrowful about aspects of modern capitalism, but realistic hope of change can seem either utopian or demented. In fact, the way that capitalism works is inherently open to alteration and improvement. This is because the problems of capitalism are, in their essence, not about money, law or politics, but about human psychology – the field of expertise of ... Read more

    $6.56 USD

  • The Essential Hirschman

    Some of the finest essays in the social sciences, written by one of the twentieth century's most influential and provocative thinkersThe Essential Hirschman brings together some of the finest essays in the social sciences, written by one of the twentieth century's most influential and provocative thinkers. Albert O. Hirschman was a master essayist, one who possessed the rare ability to blend the ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Bright Continent

    Breaking Rules & Making Change in Modern Africa

    by Dayo Olopade ...
    “For anyone who wants to understand how the African economy really works, The Bright Continent is a good place to start” (Reuters).Dayo Olopade knew from personal experience that Western news reports on conflict, disease, and poverty obscure the true story of modern Africa. And so she crossed sub-Saharan Africa to document how ordinary people deal with their daily challenges.She found what cable ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Freedom from National Debt

    America is needlessly worried about “national debt,” believing it can no longer do the many things that mark it as a great nation. Discussions of national undertakings including infrastructure repair, jobs programs, and military modernization - have all been stifled through fear of insolvency. America has convinced itself that it can no longer afford, as a nation, to do many of the productive ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Portfolios of the Poor

    How the World's Poor Live on $2 a Day

    Nearly forty percent of humanity lives on an average of two dollars a day or less. If you've never had to survive on an income so small, it is hard to imagine. How would you put food on the table, afford a home, and educate your children? How would you handle emergencies and old age? Every day, more than a billion people around the world must answer these questions. Portfolios of the Poor is the ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • China Dream And The China Path, The

    by Tianyong Zhou ...
    Series Book 4 - Series On Chinese Economics Research
    Since its reform and opening up, China has experienced unprecedented social and economic development. It is important to understand the biggest and fastest growing economy's policy and strategy. As a key director in Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the author proposes a development path and reform strategies for China in the next three decades.This book ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Public Wealth of Nations

    How Management of Public Assets Can Boost or Bust Economic Growth

    We have spent the last three decades engaged in a pointless and irrelevant debate about the relative merits of privatization or nationalization. We have been arguing about the wrong thing while sitting on a goldmine of assets.Don’t worry about who owns those assets, worry about whether they are managed effectively.Why does this matter? Because despite the Thatcher/ Reagan economic revolution, the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Capital in the Twenty-First Century

    Translated by Arthur Goldhammer ...
    A New York Times #1 BestsellerAn Amazon #1 BestsellerA Wall Street Journal #1 BestsellerA USA Today BestsellerA Sunday Times BestsellerA Guardian Best Book of the 21st CenturyWinner of the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year AwardWinner of the British Academy MedalFinalist, National Book Critics Circle Award“It seems safe to say that ... ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Doughnut Economics

    Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist

    by Kate Raworth ...
    *The Sunday Times Bestseller*A Financial Times Book of the Year*A Forbes Book of the Year*Winner of the Transmission Prize 2018*Longlisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2017*Porchlight “Best Business Book of 2017: Current Events & Public Affairs”The book that redefines economic... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Capital and Ideology

    Translated by Arthur Goldhammer ...
    A New York Times BestsellerAn NPR Best Book of the YearThe epic successor to one of the most important books of the century: at once a retelling of global history, a scathing critique of contemporary politics, and a bold proposal for a new and fairer economic system.Thomas Piketty’s bestselling Capital in the Twenty-First Century galvanized global debate about inequality. In this audacious follow ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Divide: Global Inequality from Conquest to Free Markets

    by Jason Hickel ...
    Global inequality doesn’t just exist; it has been created.More than four billion people—some 60 percent of humanity—live in debilitating poverty, on less than $5 per day. The standard narrative tells us this crisis is a natural phenomenon, having to do with things like climate and geography and culture. It tells us that all we have to do is give a bit of aid here and there to help poor countries ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Bottom Billion : Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It

    Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It

    by Paul Collier ...
    Global poverty Paul Collier points out is actually falling quite rapidly for about eighty percent of the world. The real crisis lies in a group of about 50 failing states the bottom billion whose problems defy traditional approaches to alleviating poverty. In The Bottom Billion Collier contends that these fifty failed states pose the central challenge of the developing world in the twenty-first ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Globalization and Its Discontents Revisited: Anti-Globalization in the Era of Trump

    **An International Bestseller"Accessible, provocative, and highly readable." —Alan Cowell, New York Times**In this crucial expansion and update of his landmark bestseller, renowned economist and Nobel Prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz addresses globalization’s new discontents in the United States and Europe. Immediately upon publication, Globalization and Its Discontents became a touchstone in the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Globalization and Its Discontents

    This powerful, unsettling book gives us a rare glimpse behind the closed doors of global financial institutions by the winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics.When it was first published, this national bestseller quickly became a touchstone in the globalization debate. Renowned economist and Nobel Prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz had a ringside seat for most of the major economic events of the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Libra Shrugged: How Facebook Tried to Take Over the Money

    by David Gerard ...
    Silicon Valley tries to disrupt the world — and the world says "no."Facebook: the biggest social network in history. A stupendous, world-shaping success. But governments were giving Facebook trouble over personal data abuses, election rigging and fake news.Mark Zuckerberg wondered: what if Facebook could pivot to finance? Or, better: what if Facebook started its own private world currency?Facebook ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Great Escape

    Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality

    by Angus Deaton ...
    The world is a better place than it used to be. People are wealthier and healthier, and live longer lives. Yet the escapes from destitution by so many have left gaping inequalities between people and between nations. In The Great Escape, Angus Deaton--one of the foremost experts on economic development and on poverty--tells the remarkable story of how, starting 250 years ago, some parts of the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Waste

    One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret

    The MacArthur grant–winning environmental justice activist’s riveting memoir of a life fighting for a cleaner future for America’s most vulnerableA Smithsonian Magazine Top Ten Best Science Book of 2020Catherine Coleman Flowers, a 2020 MacArthur “genius,” grew up in Lowndes County, Alabama, a place that’s been called “Bloody Lowndes” because of its violent, racist history. Once the epicenter of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Rise and Fall of American Growth

    The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War

    Series Book 70 - The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
    How America's high standard of living came to be and why future growth is under threatIn the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric lighting, indoor plumbing, motor vehicles, air travel, and television transformed households and workplaces. But has that era of unprecedented growth come to an end? ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Truth, Errors, and Lies

    Politics and Economics in a Volatile World

    An approach to the challenges of globalism that rejects simplistic solutions, from “one of the most acute observers of the international economy” (Francis Fukuyama, New York Times-bestselling author of Identity).Deploying a novel mix of scientific evaluation and personal observation, Grzegorz W. Kolodko, one of the world’s leading authorities on economics and development policy, begins Truth, ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Global Inequality

    A New Approach for the Age of Globalization

    Winner of the Bruno Kreisky Prize, Karl Renner InstitutA Financial Times Best Economics Book of the YearAn Economist Best Book of the YearA Livemint Best Book of the YearOne of the world’s leading economists of inequality, Branko Milanovic presents a bold new account of the dynamics that drive inequality on a global scale. Drawing on vast data sets and cutting-edge research, he explains the benign ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Co-operatives for Sustainable Communities

    Editors: Leslie Brown, Chiara Carini, Jessica Gordon-Nembhard, Lou Hammond Ketilson, Elizabeth Hicks, John McNamara, Sonja Novkovic, Daphne Rixon and Richard Simmons.The Measuring the Co-operative Difference Research Network and the Centre of Excellence in Accounting and Reporting for Co-operatives joined forces to organize an international conference, focused on how and why co-operatives assess ... Read more

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