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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 — 66,888 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 — 25,122 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 — 5,704 ratings — published 2006
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as economic-development)
avg rating 3.69 — 11,290 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 — 4,453 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 — 5,287 ratings — published 2013
Development as Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.10 — 7,227 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 — 8,069 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 — 5,246 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 — 3,988 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 — 8,393 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 — 2,492 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 4.01 — 207 ratings — published 1982
Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,517 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 — 1,387 ratings — published 2014
Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.08 — 11,810 ratings — published 2025
Abundance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as economic-development)
avg rating 3.88 — 55,107 ratings — published 2025
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.27 — 66,868 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 — 118,079 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 — 5,879 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 — 471,652 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 3.77 — 167 ratings — published 2013
The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as economic-development)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,488 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
Corporate Site Selection and Economic Development: A 30-YEAR PERSPECTIVE (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.06 — 17 ratings — published
The Power of Creative Destruction: Economic Upheaval and the Wealth of Nations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.09 — 510 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 — 4,191 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 — 365 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 — 206,405 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 — 15,169 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 — 3,522 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 — 439 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 — 231 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 — 12,134 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 — 2,207 ratings — published 2016
Globalization and its Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as economic-development)
avg rating 3.87 — 8,299 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 — 29,613 ratings — published 1971
Capital in the Twenty First Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.06 — 35,345 ratings — published 2013
One Economics, Many Recipes: Globalization, Institutions, and Economic Growth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as economic-development)
avg rating 4.08 — 291 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
“Social entrepreneurship is an obvious solution that just makes our lives easier.”
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“The so-called socialist societies rediscover, under modified forms, the necessities inherent in any modern economic system. There, just as under capitalism, the ‘boss class’ lays down the law. (...) Up to now the planners, by reason of penury and of the decision to develop economic power as rapidly as possible, have not concerned themselves either with the productivity of the various investments or with the consumers’ preferences. It will not be long before they experience the perils of slump and deflation and the exigencies of economic arithmetic.”
― The Opium of the Intellectuals
― The Opium of the Intellectuals
