Development - Economic Development
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The Lords of Poverty: The Power, Prestige, and Corruption of the International Aid Business
$17.00 Add to cartLords of Poverty is a case study in betrayals of a public trust. The shortcomings of aid are numerous, and serious enough to raise questions about the viability of the practice at its most fundamental… [more below]
- Author: Hancock, Graham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 10 1994
- ISBN10: 0871134691
- Language: English
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The Rise of Indigenous Economic Power: Deconstructing Indian ACT Economics
$24.99 Add to cartIndigenomics in action–moving beyond Indian Act economics towards Indigenous economic sovereignty
In this groundbreaking new work, Carol Anne Hilton, author of the bestselling Indigenomics, explores
- Author: Hilton, Carol Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1774060159
- Language: English
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How Africa Works: Success and Failure on the World’s Last Developmental Frontier
$32.00 Add to cart“Challenges outdated narratives and makes a compelling case for the continent’s economic potential.”–Bill Gates
The acclaimed author of How Asia Works brings his “pithy, well-written and intellectuall
- Author: Studwell, Joe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 0802158439
- Language: English
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The Invention of Infinite Growth: How Economists Came to Believe a Dangerous Delusion
$32.50 Add to cartA history of how the pursuit of growth has kept us from creating a more sustainable and just world.
Most economists believe that growth is the surest path to better lives. This has proven to be one o- Author: Jones, Christopher F.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 022672204X
- Language: English
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Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
$19.99 Add to cartIn this new edition of their classic work, the winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics upend the most common assumptions about how economics works, providing a “rich and humane” (Financial Times) exam… [more below]
- Author: Banerjee, Abhijit V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1541706188
- Language: English
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Tools for Conviviality
$23.67 Add to cartIvan Illich argues for individual personal control over life, the tools and energy we use. A work of seminal importance.
The conviviality for which noted social philosopher Ivan Illich is arguing is o- Author: Illich, Ivan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 30 2021
- ISBN10: 1842300113
- Language: English
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Reinventing the Heartland: How One City’s Inclusive Approach to Innovation and Growth Can Revive the American Dream
$29.99 Add to cartA blueprint for the bottom-up revival that is so sorely needed in cities across America.
To thrive in this day and age, cities must create innovation economies of their own. Tech jobs, venture capital
- Author: Lalla, Nicholas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1400249007
- Language: English
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Prosperity in the Age of Decline: How to Lead Your Business and Preserve Wealth Through the Coming Business Cycles
$32.00 Read moreA guide for protecting your wealth in an age of turbulent business cycles
In Prosperity in the Age of Decline, Brian and Alan Beaulieu–the CEO and President of the Institute for Trend Research(R) (IT
- Author: Beaulieu, Brian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 30 2014
- ISBN10: 1118809890
- Language: English
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Signals: The 27 Trends Defining the Future of the Global Economy
$35.00 Read moreDiscover the trends shaping our world, and explore the data underlying them, in this fascinating, visual journey.
In Signals, Visual Capitalist founder and editor-in-chief Jeff Desjardins and his team
- Author: Desjardins, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1119853176
- Language: English
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The Prosperity Paradox: How Innovation Can Lift Nations Out of Poverty
$32.50 Read moreClayton M. Christensen, the author of such business classics as The Innovator’s Dilemma and the New York Times bestseller How Will You Measure Your Life, and co-authors Efosa Ojomo and Karen Dillon re
- Author: Christensen, Clayton M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 15 2019
- ISBN10: 0062851829
- Language: English
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Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World’s Economy
$28.00 Read more“This book’s great service is that it challenges us to consider the ways in which our institutions and systems, and the assumptions, positions and divisions that undergird them, leave us ill prepared … [more below]
- Author: Tooze, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 0593297555
- Language: English
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Eat Sh*t & Smile: Surviving and Thriving on the Roller Coaster of Life
$28.95 Add to cartLearn how to use your own internal GPS system to get through any problem!
In Eat Sh*t & Smile, Jerry G. Banks shares his remarkable journey overcoming personal and financial hardships to achieve extrao
- Author: Banks, Jerry G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: October 02 2024
- ISBN10: 195723220X
- Language: English
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Rich World, Poor World: The Struggle to Escape Poverty
$35.00 Add to cartA landmark history of the world economic order, exploring how developing countries have fought to escape impoverishment
Over the past two decades, experiments in neoliberal economics have opened up a- Author: Allawi, Ali a.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0300214286
- Language: English
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Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
$33.00 Add to cartBrilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and… [more below]
- Author: Acemoglu, Daron
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: March 20 2012
- ISBN10: 0307719219
- Language: English
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Africa’s Business Revolution: How to Succeed in the World’s Next Big Growth Market
$35.00 Add to cartThe Definitive Guide to Doing Business in Africa
For global and Africa-based companies looking to access new growth markets, Africa offers exciting opportunities to build large, profitable businesses.
- Author: Leke, Acha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 20 2018
- ISBN10: 1633694402
- Language: English
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American Flannel: How a Band of Entrepreneurs Are Bringing the Art and Business of Making Clothes Back Home
$29.00 Read more“I can confidently say this will be one of my favorite books of 2024.” –Stephen King, bestselling author (and onetime millworker)
“American Flannel is a wonderful book–surprising, entertaining, vivi- Author: Kurutz, Steven
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0593329619
- Language: English
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Development as Freedom
$20.00 Add to cartBy the winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Economics, an essential and paradigm-altering framework for understanding economic development–for both rich and poor–in the twenty-first century.
Freedom, S- Author: Sen, Amartya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 15 2000
- ISBN10: 0385720270
- Language: English
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Indigenomics: Taking a Seat at the Economic Table
$21.99 Add to cartIgniting the $100 billion Indigenous economy
It is time. It is time to increase the visibility, role, and responsibility of the emerging modern Indigenous economy and the people involved. This is the
- Author: Hilton, Carol Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 16 2021
- ISBN10: 0865719403
- Language: English
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Jump-Starting America: How Breakthrough Science Can Revive Economic Growth and the American Dream
$45.50 Read moreThe untold story of how America once created the most successful economy the world has ever seen and how we can do it again.
The American economy glitters on the outside, but the reality is quite dif- Author: Gruber, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 09 2019
- ISBN10: 1541762487
- Language: English
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Next Convergence
$23.99 Add to cartA Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book
Michael Spence, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, clearly and boldly describes what’s at stake for all of us as he looks ahead to how the global- Author: Spence, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 07 2012
- ISBN10: 1250007704
- Language: English
