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  • Fundamentals of Risk Management for Accountants and Managers

    by Paul M. Collier ...
    Both financial and non-financial managers with accountability for performance at either a strategic level or for a business unit have responsibility for risk management, in terms of failing to achieve organisational objectives. Fundamentals of Enterprise Risk management is structured around four parts and 26 self-contained chapters. Each chapter will have ample practical examples and illustrations ... Read more

    $115.99 USD

  • The Bottom Billion : Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It

    Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It

    by Paul Collier ...
    Global poverty Paul Collier points out is actually falling quite rapidly for about eighty percent of the world. The real crisis lies in a group of about 50 failing states the bottom billion whose problems defy traditional approaches to alleviating poverty. In The Bottom Billion Collier contends that these fifty failed states pose the central challenge of the developing world in the twenty-first ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • Exodus

    How Migration is Changing Our World

    by Paul Collier ...
    It is one of the most pressing and controversial questions of our time -- vehemently debated, steeped in ideology, profoundly divisive. Who should be allowed to immigrate and who not? What are the arguments for and against limiting the numbers? We are supposedly a nation of immigrants, and yet our policies reflect deep anxieties and the quirks of short-term self-interest, with effective ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

  • The Plundered Planet

    Why We Must--and How We Can--Manage Nature for Global Prosperity

    by Paul Collier ...
    Paul Collier's The Bottom Billion was greeted as groundbreaking when it appeared in 2007, winning the Estoril Distinguished Book Prize, the Arthur Ross Book Award, and the Lionel Gelber Prize. Now, in The Plundered Planet, Collier builds upon his renowned work on developing countries and the world's poorest populations to confront the global mismanagement of natural resources. Proper stewardship ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

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    The Future of Capitalism

    Facing the New Anxieties

    by Paul Collier ...
    Narrated by Peter Noble ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 26 min

    From world-renowned economist Paul Collier, a candid diagnosis of the failures of capitalism and a pragmatic and realistic vision for how we can repair it.Deep new rifts are tearing apart the fabric of the United States and other Western societies: thriving cities versus rural counties, the highly skilled elite versus the less educated, wealthy versus developing countries. As these divides deepen, ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Wars, Guns, and Votes

    Democracy in Dangerous Places

    by Paul Collier ...
    An expert on developing nations offers "accessible and very sensible analysis" of America's promotion of democracy abroad—and why it often fails ( Publishers Weekly).Oxford economist Paul Collier gives an eye-opening assessment of the corruption and political violence that plague developing nations across Africa, Latin America, and Asia. While many of these governments meet America's standards for ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Bottom Billion

    Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It

    by Paul Collier ...
    In the universally acclaimed and award-winning The Bottom Billion, Paul Collier reveals that fifty failed states--home to the poorest one billion people on Earth--pose the central challenge of the developing world in the twenty-first century. The book shines much-needed light on this group of small nations, largely unnoticed by the industrialized West, that are dropping further and further behind ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

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    Greed Is Dead

    Politics After Individualism

    by Paul Collier, John Kay ...
    Narrated by Peter Noble ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 45 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.The idea that people are basically driven by individualism and economic incentives, and that prosperity and good societies come from top-down leadership, has dominated politics for the last thirty years (from some perspectives, much longer). This book shows that the age of homo economicus and centralisation is coming to an end. Instead, Collier and Kay argue that ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Second World War (4)

    The Mediterranean 1940–1945

    by Paul Collier ...
    Series series Guide to...
    This concise e-guide explores the Mediterranean theater of the Second World War as the first truly modern war.It was a highly mobile conflict, in which logistics were a critical and often deciding factor, and from the very beginning a close relationship between the land, sea, and air elements was vital. Victory could not be achieved by either side unless the three services worked in intimate ... Read more

    $10.59 USD

  • The Future of Capitalism

    Facing the New Anxieties

    by Paul Collier ...
    A top economist's "engaging and well-reasoned" look at how to save capitalism from itself—and from the twin threats of populism and socialism ( The Washington Post).Winner, Handelsblatt Prize for Best Business BookDeep rifts are tearing apart the fabric of the United States and other Western societies: thriving cities versus struggling rural counties; the highly skilled elite versus the less ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Audiobook

    Left Behind

    A New Economics for Neglected Places

    by Paul Collier ...
    Narrated by Peter Noble ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 42 min

    From the bestselling author of The Bottom Billion, the fate of the poorest regions of the world–some of which exist in the richest nations–is examined.Using examples of the “left behind” regions, renowned development economist Paul Collier shows that centralized western economies have been the most ineffective to alleviate poverty—even if nationally the country seems to be growing.In Left Behind, ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Refuge

    Rethinking Refugee Policy in a Changing World

    by Paul Collier, Alexander Betts ...
    Global refugee numbers are at their highest levels since the end of World War II, but the system in place to deal with them, based upon a humanitarian list of imagined "basic needs," has changed little. In Refuge, Paul Collier and Alexander Betts argue that the system fails to provide a comprehensive solution to the fundamental problem, which is how to reintegrate displaced people into society. ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook