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  • Amazing Things Are Happening Here

    by Jacob Appel ...
    "I am happy to report that the United States has its own Chekhov in Jacob Appel. His stories illuminate the kind of questions that keep us awake at night-Is this love? How do I know for sure? Is anything certain in life? Whether they deal with adolescence, middle- or old-age, Appel's stories depict with poignancy and quirky humor exactly what is at stake. "The Bigamist's Apprentice" made me laugh ... Read more

    $9.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • More Than Good Intentions

    Improving the Ways the World's Poor Borrow, Save, Farm, Learn, and Stay Healthy

    A leading economist and researcher report from the front lines of a revolution in solving the world's most persistent problem.When it comes to global poverty, people are passionate and polarized. At one extreme: We just need to invest more resources. At the other: We've thrown billions down a sinkhole over the last fifty years and accomplished almost nothing.Dean Karlan and Jacob Appel present an ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Failing in the Field

    What We Can Learn When Field Research Goes Wrong

    A revealing look at the common causes of failures in randomized control experiments during field reseach—and how to avoid themAll across the social sciences, from development economics to political science departments, researchers are going into the field to collect data and learn about the world. While much has been gained from the successes of randomized controlled trials, stories of failed ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future

    How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future

    A forceful argument against America's vicious circle of growing inequality by the Nobel Prize–winning economist.The top 1 percent of Americans control 40 percent of the nation’s wealth. And, as Joseph E. Stiglitz explains, while those at the top enjoy the best health care, education, and benefits of wealth, they fail to realize that “their fate is bound up with how the other 99 percent live. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Nickel and Dimed

    On (Not) Getting By in America

    The New York Times bestselling work of undercover reportage from our sharpest and most original social critic, with a new foreword by Matthew Desmond, author of EvictedMillions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that a job—any job—can ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Divide

    American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap

    by Matt Taibbi ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST, NPR, AND KIRKUS REVIEWSA scathing portrait of an urgent new American crisis**Over the last two decades, America has been falling deeper and deeper into a statistical mystery:Poverty goes up. Crime goes down. The prison population doubles.Fraud by the rich wipes out 40 percent of the world’s wealth. The ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Price of Civilization: Reawakening American Virtue and Prosperity

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY“Succinct, humane, and politically astute . . . Sachs lays out a detailed path to reform, regulation, and recovery.”—The American ProspectIn this forceful and impassioned book, Jeffrey D. Sachs offers a searing and incisive diagnosis of our country’s economic ills, and an urgent call for ... Read more

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  • Development Cooperation

    Challenges of the New Aid Architecture

    by S. Klingebiel ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The aims of and motives for development cooperation have changed significantly in recent times. Besides pursuing short- and longer-term objectives in their own economic, foreign policy and other interests, donors usually have a recognisable and genuine interest in assisting countries in their processes of development. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The End of Poverty

    Economic Possibilities for Our Time

    **"Book and man are brilliant, passionate, optimistic and impatient . . . Outstanding." —The EconomistThe landmark exploration of economic prosperity and how the world can escape from extreme poverty for the world's poorest citizens, from one of the world's most renowned economists**Hailed by ***Time***as one of the world's hundred most influential people, Jeffrey D. Sachs is renowned for his work ... Read more

    Was $14.99 USD Now $10.99 USD

  • Cultivating Development

    An Ethnography of Aid Policy and Practice

    by David Mosse ...
    Series series Anthropology, Culture and Society
    What if development agencies and researchers are not driven by policy? Suppose that the things that make for 'good policy' - policy that legitimises and mobilises political support - in reality make it impossible to implement?By focusing in detail on the unfolding activities of a development project in western India over more than ten years, as it falls under different policy regimes, this book ... Read more

    $29.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A World of Three Zeros

    The New Economics of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment, and Zero Net Carbon Emissions

    From Nobel Prize winner and bestselling author of Banker to the Poor, a vision of an emerging new economic system that can save humankind and the planetMuhammad Yunus is one of the modern world’s most trenchant social critics. In A World of Three Zeros, he declare it’s time to admit that the capitalist engine has failed most people – that in its current form it inevitably leads to rampant ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Governing African Gold Mining

    Private Governance and the Resource Curse

    by Ainsley Elbra ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book takes a fresh approach to the puzzle of sub-Saharan Africa’s resource curse. Moving beyond current scholarship’s state-centric approach, it presents cutting-edge evidence gathered through interviews with mining company executives and industry representatives to demonstrate that firms are actively controlling the regulation of the gold mining sector. It shows how large mining firms with ... Read more

    $89.09 USD