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Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.08 — 66,646 ratings — published 2012
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.27 — 25,084 ratings — published 2011
The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as economic-development)
avg rating 3.83 — 5,701 ratings — published 2006
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as economic-development)
avg rating 3.69 — 11,286 ratings — published 2005
The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as economic-development)
avg rating 3.98 — 4,453 ratings — published 2000
The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as economic-development)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,660 ratings — published 2001
How Asia Works: Success and Failure in the World's Most Dynamic Region (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.26 — 5,267 ratings — published 2013
Development as Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.10 — 7,219 ratings — published 1999
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as economic-development)
avg rating 3.85 — 8,066 ratings — published 2007
From Third World to First: A Statesman’s Powerful Story of Transformation from Poverty to National Leadership (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.46 — 5,233 ratings — published 2000
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as economic-development)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,986 ratings — published 1998
Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as economic-development)
avg rating 3.70 — 8,384 ratings — published 2009
More Than Good Intentions: How a New Economics Is Helping to Solve Global Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as economic-development)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,002 ratings — published 2011
The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as economic-development)
avg rating 3.81 — 2,487 ratings — published 2013
MITI and the Japanese Miracle: The Growth of Industrial Policy, 1925-1975 (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.00 — 206 ratings — published 1982
Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,509 ratings — published 2002
The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as economic-development)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,386 ratings — published 2014
Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.08 — 11,458 ratings — published 2025
Abundance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as economic-development)
avg rating 3.88 — 54,484 ratings — published 2025
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.27 — 66,657 ratings — published 2023
Economic Development (8th Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as economic-development)
avg rating 3.95 — 498 ratings — published 1977
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.47 — 117,873 ratings — published 2016
Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,869 ratings — published 2007
The Great Rebalancing: Trade, Conflict, and the Perilous Road Ahead for the World Economy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.25 — 518 ratings — published 2012
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.04 — 470,705 ratings — published 1997
Economic Development and Transition: Thought, Strategy, and Viability (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.00 — 7 ratings — published 2009
Poor Numbers: How We Are Misled by African Development Statistics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as economic-development)
avg rating 3.76 — 167 ratings — published 2013
The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as economic-development)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,487 ratings — published 2013
The Anti-Politics Machine: "Development," Depoliticization, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.29 — 655 ratings — published 1990
The Power of Creative Destruction: Economic Upheaval and the Wealth of Nations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.10 — 506 ratings — published 2021
The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.61 — 4,175 ratings — published 2017
Power and Plenty: Trade, War, and the World Economy in the Second Millennium (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.16 — 364 ratings — published 2007
Reclaiming Development: An Alternative Economic Policy Manual (Global Issues)
by (shelved 3 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.01 — 133 ratings — published 2004
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.35 — 206,148 ratings — published 2018
Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.22 — 15,151 ratings — published 2019
The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as economic-development)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,514 ratings — published 2011
The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)
by (shelved 3 times as economic-development)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,714 ratings — published 2017
How China Escaped the Poverty Trap (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.32 — 438 ratings — published 2016
Beating the Odds: Jump-Starting Developing Countries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.25 — 12 ratings — published 2017
Rethinking Development Economics (Anthem Frontiers of Global Political Economy and Development, 1)
by (shelved 3 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.00 — 51 ratings — published 2003
Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics: Entrepreneurship and the State (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as economic-development)
avg rating 3.93 — 230 ratings — published 2008
Economic Development in the Americas Since 1500: Endowments and Institutions (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as economic-development)
avg rating 3.33 — 12 ratings — published 2011
The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as economic-development)
avg rating 3.91 — 12,133 ratings — published 2014
The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)
by (shelved 3 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,205 ratings — published 2016
Globalization and its Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as economic-development)
avg rating 3.87 — 8,296 ratings — published 2002
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.32 — 29,501 ratings — published 1971
Capital in the Twenty First Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.06 — 35,299 ratings — published 2013
One Economics, Many Recipes: Globalization, Institutions, and Economic Growth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.08 — 289 ratings — published 2007
A Billion Bootstraps: Microcredit, Barefoot Banking, and The Business Solution for Ending Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as economic-development)
avg rating 3.74 — 178 ratings — published 2007
Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.09 — 7,177 ratings — published 1973
“If geographically uneven economic development is a deep feature of economies on all scales, as economic geographers tell us, then the existence of leading and lagging economies will be a long-term feature of the landscape. And competition will merely exacerbate the shift of productive enterprise to leading places, generate unproductive races to the bottom, or induce lagging cities to give up altogether.”
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“Our goal might be more ambitious, directed toward restructuring capital's constraints altogether. Recall that the rejection of the corporatist medieval and early colonial city represented the end of monopoly, mercantilism, and autocracy in favor of open markets, democracy, and individual economic freedom. One may wish to reassert these same goals in the face of the power and authority of large, hierarchical corporate entities. The goal of the city would be to become less a passive recipient of global capital than a shaper of local capital in a direction more conducive to freedom.”
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