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  • Brazil since 1980by Francisco Vidal Luna; Herbert S. Klein

    Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 22.00

    This book is designed as a basic introduction to contemporary Brazil from a recent historical perspective and is one of the first such comprehensive surveys of recent Brazilian history and development - the shift, in effect, from a pre-modern to a modern economy and society - in any language. more...

  • The Stiglitz Reportby Joseph E. Stiglitz

    New Press, The 2010; US$ 16.95

    The fact that our global economy is broken may be widely accepted, but what precisely needs to be fixed has become the subject of enormous controversy. In 2008, the president of the United Nations General Assembly convened an international panel, chaired by Nobel Prize–winning economist Joseph Stiglitz and including twenty leading international experts on the international monetary system, to address this crucial issue. The Stiglitz Report , released by the committee in late 2009, sees the recent financial crisis as the latest and most damaging of several concurrent crises—of food, water, energy, and sustainability—that are tightly interrelated. The analysis and recommendations in the report cover the gamut from short-term... more...

  • Why Nations Failby Daron Acemoglu; James Robinson

    Crown Publishing Group 2012; US$ 13.99

    Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine? Is it culture, the weather, geography? Perhaps ignorance of what the right policies are? Simply, no. None of these factors is either definitive or destiny. Otherwise, how to explain why Botswana has become one of the fastest growing countries in the world, while other African nations, such as Zimbabwe, the Congo, and Sierra Leone, are mired in poverty and violence? Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson conclusively show that it is man-made political and economic institutions that underlie economic success (or... more...

  • Crony Capitalismby David C. Kang; Peter Lange; Robert H. Bates; Ellen Comisso; Peter Hall; Joel Migdal; Helen Milner

    Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 29.00

    This book addresses the issue of money politics in Korea. It asks whether we can reconcile the view of an efficient developmental state in Korea before 1997 with reports of massive corruption and inefficiency in that same country in 1998 and 1999. more...

  • Poverty, Work, and Freedomby David P. Levine; S. Abu Turab Rizvi

    Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 20.00

    The poor seem easy to identify: those who do not have enough money or enough of the things money can buy. This book explores a different approach to poverty, one suggested by the notion of capabilities emphasized by Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum. more...

  • Syndromes of Corruptionby Michael Johnston

    Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 34.00

    Analysing the ways people pursue, use and exchange wealth and power, Michael Johnston examines four kinds of corruption problems in twelve countries and argues that these different syndromes of corruption require differing reforms. more...

  • Deliberative Policy Analysisby Maarten A. Hajer; Hendrik Wagenaar; Robert E. Goodin; Brian Barry; Russell Hardin; Carole Pateman; Barry Weingast; Stephen Elkin

    Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 29.00

    Traditionally, policy analysis has been state-centred. Today, however, policy-making is often carried out in loosely organized networks of public authorities, citizen associations and private enterprises. Providing examples from around the world, the contributors argue that democratic governance now calls for a new deliberatively-oriented policy analysis. more...

  • State-Directed Developmentby Atul Kohli

    Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 26.00

    The study undertakes a comparative analysis of the state as an economic actor in developing countries. Why have some developing country states been more successful at facilitating industrialization than others? This study argues that the main reason is more or less effective states. more...

  • Full Disclosureby Archon Fung; Mary Graham; David Weil

    Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 16.00

    Full Disclosure is the first analysis of national and international transparency policies. more...

  • The White Man's Burdenby William Easterly

    Penguin Group Inc. 2006; US$ 13.99

    From one of the world’s best-known development economists—an excoriating attack on the tragic hubris of the West’s efforts to improve the lot of the so-called developing world In his previous book, The Elusive Quest for Growth , William Easterly criticized the utter ineffectiveness of Western organizations to mitigate global poverty, and he was promptly fired by his then-employer, the World Bank. The White Man’s Burden is his widely anticipated counterpunch—a brilliant and blistering indictment of the West’s economic policies for the world’s poor. Sometimes angry, sometimes irreverent, but always clear-eyed and rigorous, Easterly argues that we in the West need to face our own history of ineptitude... more...