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1	The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time more books like this by Jeffrey D Sachs add to wishlist Economist Jeffrey Sachs brings a lifetime of scholarship and experience to the complex problem of the wealth and poverty of nations. He reviews two centuries of history, explaining the reasons behind the uneven dispersal of wealth, and provides a holistic way to assess a nation's resources. Sachs is no ivory-tower thinker; he has been to the ... see all copies from £5.58! new only from £7.45! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty more books like this by Muhammad Yunus add to wishlist A founder of a bank in rural Bangladesh shows how he combated poverty through microlending, the practice of making small loans to the poor in order to provide for basics and to encourage small scale private enterprise. The result was the breaking of the cycle of poverty and improved living standards. Yunus has been doing this since 1976 with ... see all copies from £6.00! new only from £6.77! \| first editions
3	The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done about It more books like this by Paul Collier add to wishlist Global poverty is falling rapidly, but in around fifty failing states, the world's poorest people face a tragedy that is growing inexorably worse. This bottom billion live on less than a dollar a day and while the rest of the world moves steadily forward, this forgotten billion is left further and further behind with potentially serious ... see all copies from £5.94! new only from £5.94! \| first editions
4	Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future more books like this by Bill McKibben add to wishlist In this powerful and provocative manifesto, Bill McKibben offers the biggest challenge in a generation to the prevailing view of our economy. For the first time in human history, he observes, "more" is no longer synonymous with "better" indeed, for many of us, they have become almost opposites. McKibben puts forward a new way to think about the ... see all copies from £5.49! new only from £5.49! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One more books like this by Thomas Sowell add to wishlist Now revised and updated - this is the acclaimed companion volume to the hugely successful "Basic Economics", by one of America's most revered economists. The application of economics to major contemporary real world problems - housing, medical care, discrimination, the economic development of nations - is the theme of this important book which ... see all copies from £5.61! new only from £5.61! \| first editions
6	Development as Freedom more books like this by Amartya Sen add to wishlist In this scholarly work, a Nobel Prize-winning economist recommends the adoption of integrated socioeconomic policies that view social freedom and economic development as complementary pursuits. see all copies from £6.61! new only from £7.00! \| first editions
7	The Ecology of Commerce more books like this by Paul Hawken add to wishlist Provides a visionary blueprint for a marketplace where businesses and environmentalists work together, showing companies how to redesign and manufacture products in innovative ways, reeducate customers, and work closely with government toward a profitable, productive, and ecologically sound future. see all copies from £5.67! new only from £6.75! \| first editions
8	Economic Development more books like this by Michael P Todaro add to wishlist The most current economic development text on the market, this engaging text includes extensive country-specific examples and up-to-date information. Todaro's broad experience and the text's social-political framework make Economic Development accessible even to those with little economic background. With his unique problem- and policy-oriented ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £16.82! \| first editions
9	The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits more books like this by C K Prahalad add to wishlist The world's most exciting, fastest-growing new market is where you least expect it: at the bottom of the pyramid. Collectively, the world's billions of poor people have immense untapped buying power. They represent an enormous opportunity for companies who learn how to serve them. Not only can it be done, it is being done--very profitably. What's ... see all copies from £9.16! new only from £11.59! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	World Regional Geography: A Development Approach more books like this by Christopher A Airriess (Editor), Robert L Argenbright (Editor), Samuel A Aryeetey-Attoh (Editor) add to wishlist For introductory courses in World Regional Geography. This unique volume covers the world's regions by 11 experts in their respective fields who are intimately familiar with their material through research, fieldwork, and teaching. Each author employs the central theme of human development to present a vital, issues-oriented overview of the topic. ... see all copies from £9.63! new only from £19.18!
11 view cover	The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics more books like this by William Easterly add to wishlist Since the end of World War II, economists have tried to figure out how poor countries in the tropics could attain standards of living approaching those of countries in Europe and North America. Attempted remedies have included providing foreign aid, investing in machines, fostering education, controlling population growth, and making aid loans as ... see all copies from £9.04! new only from £12.64! \| signed copies \| first editions
12 view cover	Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming more books like this by Bjorn Lomborg add to wishlist Written by the author of "The Skeptical Environmentalist," this groundbreaking book transforms the debate about global warming by offering a fresh perspective based on human needs as well as environmental concerns. see all copies from £5.61! new only from £5.72! \| first editions
13 view cover	Portfolios of the Poor: How the World's Poor Live on $2 a Day more books like this by Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford add to wishlist About forty percent of the world's people live on incomes of two dollars a day or less. If you've never had to survive on an income so small, it is hard to imagine. How would you put food on the table, afford a home, and educate your children? How would you handle emergencies and old age? Every day, more than a billion people around the world must ... see all copies from £15.20! new only from £15.20!
14 view cover	Competitive Advantage of Nations more books like this by Michael E Porter add to wishlist 'Professor Michael Porter [is] one of the world's most influential authorities on corporate strategy...[the book] stands to become a standard text for the analysis of relative national economic performance.' - Independent on Sunday 'Michael Porter builds up an all-embracing view of economic change that amounts in the end to a powerful analytical ... see all copies from £2.63! new only from £7.72! \| signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed more books like this by Professor James C Scott add to wishlist Compulsory "ujamaa" villages in Tanzania, collectivization in Russia, Le Corbusier's urban planning theory realized in Brasilia, the Great Leap Forward in China, agricultural "modernization" in the Tropics - the 20th century has been racked by grand utopian schemes that have inadvertently brought death and disruption to millions. Why do well ... see all copies from £10.50! new only from £11.38! \| first editions
16 view cover	The Road to Serfdom more books like this by F. A. Hayek add to wishlist The Road to Serfdom remains one of the all-time classics of twentieth-century intellectual thought. For over half a century, it has inspired politicians and thinkers around the world, and has had a crucial impact on our political and cultural history. With trademark brilliance, Hayek argues convincingly that, while socialist ideals may be ... see all copies from £3.77! new only from £10.78! \| first editions
17 view cover	Material World more books like this by Sierra Club Books, Peter Menzel, Charles C Mann add to wishlist Menzel photographed average families in each of 30 nations, posed with their possessions gathered around them. As they depict the meaning of material wealth around the world, these dramatic photos ask a fundamental question: Can all five billion of us have everything we want? "A record of striking value".--Scientific American. 359 color photos. see all copies from £9.97! new only from £13.99!
18 view cover	Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update more books like this by Donella H Meadows, Jorgen Randers, Dennis Meadows add to wishlist In 1972, three scientists from MIT created a computer model that analyzed global resource consumption and production. Their results shocked the world and created stirring conversation about global 'overshoot, ' or resource use beyond the carrying capacity of the planet. Now, preeminent environmental scientists Donnella Meadows, Jorgen Randers, and ... see all copies from £9.10! new only from £9.21! \| first editions
19 view cover	Doctor Faustus more books like this by Professor Christopher Marlowe add to wishlist "Was this the face that launched a thousand ships?" Dr. Faustus famously asks of Helen of Troy when he conjures her at the suggestion of his students in this major work, written in 1588. A master scholar, Faust, dissatisfied by the limitations of book learning, seeks higher knowledge through black magic, which leads to a private audience with ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £1.24! \| first editions
20 view cover	Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble more books like this by Lester R Brown add to wishlist The world faces numerous environmental trends of disruption and decline such as rising temperatures, falling water tables and rising sea levels. In addition, the world faces the peaking of oil, the addition of 70 million people per year, a widening global economic divide and the spread of international terrorism. The global scale and growing ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £6.21! \| signed copies \| first editions
21 view cover	Fair Trade for All: How Trade Can Promote Development more books like this by Joseph E Stiglitz add to wishlist How can the poorer countries of the world be helped to help themselves through freer, fairer trade? In this challenging and controversial book Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz and his co-author Andrew Charlton address one of the key issues facing world leaders today. They put forward a radical and realistic new model for managing ... see all copies from £3.12! new only from £3.12! \| first editions
22 view cover	The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities more books like this by Mascur Olson, Mancur Olson, Jr. add to wishlist The years since World War II have seen rapid shifts in the relative positions of different countries and regions. Leading political economist Mancur Olson offers a new and compelling theory to explain these shifts in fortune and then tests his theory against evidence from many periods of history and many parts of the world. see all copies from £9.19! new only from £12.29!
23 view cover	Unicorns Are Real: A Right-Brained Approach to Learning more books like this by Barbara Meister Vitale add to wishlist If your child has difficulty understanding new concepts, the problem may be the teaching method, not the student. This invaluable book presents a series of simple, imaginative and proven exercises to help right-brained children develop the academic skills they need. see all copies from £7.16! new only from £9.45! \| first editions
24 view cover	Lords of Poverty: The Power, Prestige, and Corruption of the International Aid Business more books like this by Graham Hancock add to wishlist A comprehensive and controversial study of the 60-billion-dollar-a-year world foreign-aid business, Lords of Poverty was a bestseller in hardcover and earned the 1990 H.L. Mencken Award honorable mention for an outstanding book of journalism. Hancock investigates why huge aid projects often fail and demands a response from those in the industry. see all copies from £5.61! new only from £9.60! \| first editions
25 view cover	Economic Growth more books like this by David Weil add to wishlist Why are some countries rich and others poor? David N. Weil, one of the top researchers in economic growth, introduces students to the latest theoretical tools, data, and insights underlying this pivotal question. By showing how empirical data relate to new and old theoretical ideas, Economic Growth provides students with a complete introduction to ... see all copies from £10.57! new only from £28.60!

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