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Economics: A Very Short Introduction

The Development Trap: How Thinking Big Fails the Poor

By Adam D. Kis

The Politics of Innovation: Why Some Countries Are Better Than Others at Science and Technology

By Mark Zachary Taylor (Associate Professor of Political Science, Associate Professor of Political Science, Georgia Institute of Technology)

Purchasing and Providing Cost-effective Health Care

By Michael Drummond, Alan Maynard

The Pinch: How the Baby Boomers Took Their Children's Future - And Why They Should Give It Back

By David Willetts

When Nothing Works: From Cost of Living to Foundational Liveability

By Luca Calafati, Julie Froud, Colin Haslam, Sukhdev Johal, Karel Williams

Local Money: How to Make it Happen in Your Community

By Peter North

The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization

By Peter Zeihan

The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War

By Benn Steil (Senior Fellow and Director of International Economics, Senior Fellow and Director of International Economics, Council on Foreign Relations)

The Globalization of Inequality

By Francois Bourguignon, Thomas Scott-Railton

The Price of Prosperity: Why Rich Nations Fail and How to Renew Them

By Todd G Buchholz

Necessary Revolution: How Individuals and Organisations are Working Together to Create a Sustainable World

By Peter Senge

Fair Trade For All: How Trade Can Promote Development

By Joseph E. Stiglitz (President, Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD), Columbia University), Andrew Charlton (London School of Economics)

Limits to Privatization: How to Avoid Too Much of a Good Thing - A Report to the Club of Rome

By Ernst Ulrich von Weizsacker, Oran R. Young (University of California Santa Barbara, USA), Matthias Finger, Marianne Beisheim

Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations

By Thomas L. Friedman

A Radical History of Development Studies: Individuals, Institutions and Ideologies

By Uma Kothari

Leveling the Carbon Playing Field - International Competition and US Climate Policy Design

By Trevor Houser, Rob Bradley, Britt Childs, Jacob Werksman, Robert Heilmayr

European Union Foreign Policy in a Changing World

By Karen Smith

The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill And So Little Good

By William Easterly (Professor of Economics, New York University)

The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age

By James Dale Davidson, William Rees-Mogg

The National Economies of Europe

By David A. Dyker

Democracy and Development: Political Institutions and Well-Being in the World, 1950-1990

By Adam Przeworski (New York University), Michael E. Alvarez (DePaul University, Chicago), Jose Antonio Cheibub (Yale University, Connecticut), Fernando Limongi (Universidade de Sao Paulo)

Ecology, Politics and Violent Conflict

By Mohamed Suliman

Ending Hunger in Our Lifetime: Food Security and Globalization

By C. Ford Runge, Benjamin Senauer, Philip G. Pardey, Mark W. Rosegrant

The European Union: A Very Short Introduction

By John Pinder (Formerly Honorary Professor at the College of Europe, and Chairman of the Federal Trust, London, United Kingdom), Simon Usherwood (Senior Lecturer in the School of Politics, University of Surrey

The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor

By William Easterly

Africa: Diversity and Development

By Tony Binns, Etienne Nel, Alan Dixon

Sustainable Development Strategies: A Resource Book

By Stephen Bass, Barry Dalal-Clayton

Price Caps and Incentive Regulation in Telecommunications

By Michael A. Einhorn

North-South Trade, Employment and Inequality: Changing Fortunes in a Skill-Driven World

By Adrian Wood (Professorial Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, Professorial Fellow, University of Sussex)