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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 — 65,517 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 — 24,905 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 — 5,689 ratings — published 2006
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as economic-development)
avg rating 3.69 — 11,272 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 3.99 — 4,434 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 — 1,657 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 — 5,210 ratings — published 2013
Development as Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.10 — 7,188 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 — 8,036 ratings — published 2007
From Third World to First: A Statesman’s Powerful Story of Transformation from Poverty to National Leadership (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.46 — 5,135 ratings — published 2000
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as economic-development)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,969 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 — 8,362 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 — 999 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 — 2,475 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 4.02 — 204 ratings — published 1982
Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,493 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 — 1,384 ratings — published 2014
Abundance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as economic-development)
avg rating 3.89 — 51,063 ratings — published 2025
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.27 — 65,415 ratings — published 2023
The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as economic-development)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,474 ratings — published 2011
Economic Development (8th Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as economic-development)
avg rating 3.95 — 497 ratings — published 1977
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.47 — 116,723 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 — 5,835 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 4.26 — 514 ratings — published 2012
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.04 — 466,688 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 — 165 ratings — published 2013
The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as economic-development)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,481 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 — 651 ratings — published 1990
Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.10 — 9,980 ratings — published 2025
The Power of Creative Destruction: Economic Upheaval and the Wealth of Nations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.10 — 487 ratings — published 2021
The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,090 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 — 363 ratings — published 2007
Reclaiming Development: An Alternative Economic Policy Manual (Global Issues)
by (shelved 3 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.01 — 132 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 — 204,871 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 — 15,053 ratings — published 2019
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 — 1,703 ratings — published 2017
How China Escaped the Poverty Trap (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.32 — 426 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 — 229 ratings — published 2008
Economic Development in the Americas Since 1500: Endowments and Institutions (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as economic-development)
avg rating 3.36 — 11 ratings — published 2011
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 — 2,186 ratings — published 2016
A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as economic-development)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,312 ratings — published 2007
Globalization and its Discontents (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as economic-development)
avg rating 3.87 — 8,256 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 4.31 — 29,007 ratings — published 1971
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 3.73 — 177 ratings — published 2007
Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.09 — 7,141 ratings — published 1973
Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.05 — 516 ratings — published 1994
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