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Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
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Seeing Like a State

By James C. Scott ,

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The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor
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The Wealth and Poverty of Nations

By David S. Landes ,

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The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
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The Mushroom at the End of the World

By Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing ,

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The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies
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The Second Machine Age

By Erik Brynjolfsson , Andrew McAfee ,

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Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
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Less Is More

By Jason Hickel ,

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Material World: A Global Family Portrait
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Material World

By Peter Menzel ,

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Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail
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Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order

By Ray Dalio ,

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The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy
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The Great Divergence

By Kenneth Pomeranz ,

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Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman
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Worldly Philosopher

By Jeremy Adelman ,

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The Economy of Cities
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The Economy of Cities

By Jane Jacobs ,

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Invisible China: How the Urban-Rural Divide Threatens China's Rise
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Invisible China

By Scott Rozelle , Natalie Hell ,

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Gambling on Development: Why Some Countries Win and Others Lose
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Gambling on Development

By Stefan Dercon ,

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Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World
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Encountering Development

By Arturo Escobar ,

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The Theory of Economic Development
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The Theory of Economic Development

By Joseph A. Schumpeter ,

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The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality
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The Journey of Humanity

By Oded Galor ,

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The New Geography of Jobs
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The New Geography of Jobs

By Enrico Moretti ,

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Steady-State Economics
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Steady-State Economics

By Herman E. Daly ,

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Gender, Development and Globalization: Economics as if All People Mattered
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Gender, Development and Globalization

By Lourdes Beneria , Günseli Berik , Maria Floro

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Grassroots Innovation: Minds On The Margin Are Not Marginal Minds
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Grassroots Innovation

By Anil K. Gupta ,

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Laboratory of Socialist Development: Cold War Politics and Decolonization in Soviet Tajikistan
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Laboratory of Socialist Development

By Artemy M. Kalinovsky ,

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How Lives Change: Palanpur, India, and Development Economics
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How Lives Change

By Himanshu , Peter Lanjouw , Nicholas Stern

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Wretched Refuse?: The Political Economy of Immigration and Institutions
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Wretched Refuse?

By Alex Nowrasteh , Benjamin Powell ,

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Masculinities and Femininities in Latin America's Uneven Development
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Masculinities and Femininities in Latin America's Uneven Development

By Susan Paulson ,

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A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy
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A Culture of Growth

By Joel Mokyr ,

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Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy
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Expulsions

By Saskia Sassen ,

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Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not: Global Economic Divergence, 1600-1850
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Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not

By Prasannan Parthasarathi ,

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False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet
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False Alarm

By Bjorn Lomborg ,

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Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
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Age of Ambition

By Evan Osnos ,

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Capitalist Development and Democracy
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Capitalist Development and Democracy

By Dietrich Rueschemeyer , Evelyne Huber Stephens , John D. Stephens

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Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future
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Deep Economy

By Bill McKibben ,

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The Great Surge: The Ascent of the Developing World
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The Great Surge

By Steven Radelet ,

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Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future
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Machine, Platform, Crowd

By Andrew McAfee , Erik Brynjolfsson ,

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Americana: A 400-Year History of American Capitalism
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Americana

By Bhu Srinivasan ,

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The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities
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The Rise and Decline of Nations

By Mancur Olson ,

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Economic Transformations: General Purpose Technologies and Long-Term Economic Growth
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Economic Transformations

By Richard G. Lipsey , Kenneth I. Carlaw , Clifford T. Bekar

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How the World Became Rich: The Historical Origins of Economic Growth
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How the World Became Rich

By Mark Koyama , Jared Rubin ,

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The Future Is Asian: Commerce, Conflict, and Culture in the 21st Century
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The Future Is Asian

By Parag Khanna ,

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Economic Analysis of Social Issues
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Economic Analysis of Social Issues

By Alan Grant ,

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The Race between Education and Technology
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The Race between Education and Technology

By Claudia Goldin , Lawrence F. Katz ,

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Why Australia Prospered: The Shifting Sources of Economic Growth
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Why Australia Prospered

By Ian W. McLean ,

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Crafting the Third World: Theorizing Underdevelopment in Rumania and Brazil
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Crafting the Third World

By Joseph L. Love ,

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The World That Latin America Created: The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America in the Development Era
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The World That Latin America Created

By Margarita Fajardo ,

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The Will to Improve: Governmentality, Development, and the Practice of Politics
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The Will to Improve

By Tania Murray Li ,

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Crooked Stalks: Cultivating Virtue in South India
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Crooked Stalks

By Anand Pandian ,

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The Future is Degrowth: A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism
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The Future is Degrowth

By Matthias Schmelzer (editor) , Andrea Vetter (editor) , Aaron Vansintjan (editor)

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Towards a Political Economy of Degrowth
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Towards a Political Economy of Degrowth

By Ekaterina Chertkovskaya (editor) , Alexander Paulsson (editor) , Stefania Barca (editor)

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Earth, Wind and Fire: Unpacking the Political, Economic and Security Implications of Discourse on the Green Economy
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Earth, Wind and Fire

By Lynne Krieger Mytelka (editor) , Velaphi Msimang (editor) , Radhika Perrot (editor) , Marie Blanche Ting , Saliem Fakir , Manisha Gulati , Simone Haysom , Lyndall Mujakachi , Edison Muzenda , T. J. Pilusa , Louise Scholtz , Ogundiran Soumonni , Fumani Mthembi

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Development as Freedom
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Development as Freedom

By Amartya Sen ,

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Faces of Hunger: An Essay on Poverty, Justice and Development
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Faces of Hunger

By Onora O'Neill ,

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Theories of Underdevelopment
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Theories of Underdevelopment

By Ian Roxborough ,

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Education and Economic Growth: Investment and Distribution of Financial Resources
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Education and Economic Growth

By Kern Alexander ,

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An Introduction to Ecological Economics
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An Introduction to Ecological Economics

By Robert Costanza , John H Cumberland , Herman Daly , Robert Goodland , Richard B Norgaard , Ida Kubiszewski , Carol Franco

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Innovation in Real Places: Strategies for Prosperity in an Unforgiving World
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Innovation in Real Places

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Building the Local Economy: Cases in Economic Development
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Building the Local Economy

By Douglas J. Watson (editor) , John C. Morris (editor) ,

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Forgotten Foundations of Bretton Woods: International Development and the Making of the Postwar Order
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Forgotten Foundations of Bretton Woods

By Eric Helleiner ,

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Humanomics: Moral Sentiments and the Wealth of Nations for the Twenty-First Century
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Humanomics

By Vernon L. Smith , Bart J. Wilson ,

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Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future
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Postcapitalism

By Paul Mason ,

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Farewell to Growth
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Farewell to Growth

By Serge Latouche ,

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Pillars of Prosperity: The Political Economics of Development Clusters
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Pillars of Prosperity

By Timothy Besley , Torsten Persson ,

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Real Impact: The New Economics of Social Change
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Real Impact

By Morgan Simon ,

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Herman Daly's Economics for a Full World: His Life and Ideas
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Herman Daly's Economics for a Full World

By Peter A. Victor ,

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Resource Radicals: From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador
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Resource Radicals

By Thea Riofrancos ,

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The Culture of Stopping
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The Culture of Stopping

By Harald Welzer , Sharon Howe (translator) ,

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The First Industrial Revolution
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The First Industrial Revolution

By P. M. Deane ,

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The Education Trap: Schools and the Remaking of Inequality in Boston
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The Education Trap

By Cristina Viviana Groeger ,

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The History of Development: From Western Origins to Global Faith
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The History of Development

By Gilbert Rist , Patrick Camiller (translator) ,

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The Next Africa
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The Next Africa

By Aubrey Hruby , Jake Bright ,

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