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  • The Development Dilemma

    Security, Prosperity, and a Return to History

    by Robert H. Bates ...
    Reassessing the developing world through the lens of Europe's pastToday’s developing nations emerged from the rubble of the Second World War. Only a handful of these countries have subsequently attained a level of prosperity and security comparable to that of the advanced industrial world. The implication is clear: those who study the developing world in order to learn how development can be ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • When Things Fell Apart

    State Failure in Late-Century Africa

    by Robert H. Bates ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    In the later decades of the twentieth century, Africa plunged into political chaos. States failed, governments became predators, and citizens took up arms. In When Things Fell Apart, Robert H. Bates advances an exploration of state failure in Africa. In so doing, he not only plumbs the depths of the continent's late-century tragedy, but also the logic of political order and the foundations of the ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • When Things Fell Apart

    State Failure in Late-Century Africa

    by Robert H. Bates ...
    Series series Canto Classics
    In the later decades of the twentieth century, Africa plunged into political chaos. States failed, governments became predators, and citizens took up arms. In When Things Fell Apart, Robert H. Bates advances an exploration of state failure in Africa. In so doing, he not only plumbs the depths of the continent's late-century tragedy, but also the logic of political order, and the foundations of the ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Analytic Narratives

    by Robert H. Bates, Avner Greif, Margaret Levi, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, Barry R. Weingast ...
    Students of comparative politics have long faced a vexing dilemma: how can social scientists draw broad, applicable principles of political order from specific historical examples? In Analytic Narratives, five senior scholars offer a new and ambitious methodological response to this important question. By employing rational-choice and game theory, the authors propose a way of extracting ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Open-Economy Politics

    The Political Economy of the World Coffee Trade

    by Robert H. Bates ...
    Coffee is traded in one of the few international markets ever subject to effective political regulation. In Open-Economy Politics, Robert Bates explores the origins, the operations, and the collapse of the International Coffee Organization, an international "government of coffee" that was formed in the 1960s. In so doing, he addresses key issues in international political economy and comparative ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Making Aid Work

    by Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee, Alice H. Amsden, Robert H. Bates, Jagdish N. Bhagwati, Angus Deaton ...
    Series series Boston Review Books
    An encouraging account of the potential of foreign aid to reduce poverty and a challenge to all aid organizations to think harder about how they spend their money.With more than a billion people now living on less than a dollar a day, and with eight million dying each year because they are simply too poor to live, most would agree that the problem of global poverty is our greatest moral challenge. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Markets and States in Tropical Africa

    The Political Basis of Agricultural Policies

    by Robert H. Bates ...
    Following independence, most countries in Africa sought to develop, but their governments pursued policies that actually undermined their rural economies. Examining the origins of Africa’s "growth tragedy," Markets and States in Tropical Africa has for decades shaped the thinking of practitioners and scholars alike. Robert H. Bates’s analysis now faces a challenge, however: the revival of economic ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Africa's Development in Historical Perspective

    Edited by Emmanuel Akyeampong, Robert H. Bates, Nathan Nunn, James Robinson ...
    This edited volume addresses the root causes of Africa's persistent poverty through an investigation of its longue durée history. It interrogates the African past through disease and demography, institutions and governance, African economies and the impact of the export slave trade, colonialism, Africa in the world economy, and culture's influence on accumulation and investment. Several of the ... Read more

    $50.89 USD

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  • Dragon in the Tropics

    Venezuela and the Legacy of Hugo Chavez

    by Javier Corrales, Michael Penfold ...
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    $28.39 USD

  • Unequal Democracy

    The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age - Second Edition

    by Larry M. Bartels ...
    Series series Russell Sage Foundation Co-pub
    An acclaimed examination of how the American political system favors the wealthy—now fully revised and expandedThe first edition of Unequal Democracy was an instant classic, shattering illusions about American democracy and spurring scholarly and popular interest in the political causes and consequences of escalating economic inequality. This revised, updated, and expanded second edition includes ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Latin America at 200

    A New Introduction

    by Phillip Berryman ...
    Series series Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture
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    $35.99 USD