Economic development
- Author:Brown, Lester R.Summary:
- Author:Soto, Hernando deSummary:
"The hour of capitalism's greatest triumph," writes Hernando de Soto, "is, in the eyes of four-fifths of humanity, its hour of crisis." In The Mystery of Capital, the world-famous Peruvian economist takes up the question that, more than...
- Author:Mokyr, JoelSummary:
- Author:Rist, GilbertSummary:
"This book provides a complete and powerful overview of what the idea of development has meant. Rist traces it from its origins in the Western view of history, through the early stages of the world system, the rise of U.S. hegemony...
- Author:Rubin, JeffSummary:
Economist and resource analyst Jeff Rubin is certain that the world's governments are getting it wrong. Instead of moving us toward economic recovery, measures being taken around the globe right now are digging us into a deeper hole....
- Author:Chermack, Thomas J.Summary:
Scenario planning helps organization leaders, executives and decision-makers envision and develop strategies for multiple possible futures instead of just one. It enables organizations to become resilient and agile, carefully...
- Author:Mason, PaulSummary:
Over the past two centuries, capitalism has undergone profound changes from which it has always emerged transformed and strengthened. Paul Mason's Postcapitalism argues that we are on the brink of a change so big that this time...
- Author:Sabillon, CarlosSummary:
What's the secret? Can policies "grow" the economy? How do leaders make their countries prosper? Since the earliest of times, humans have endeavored to uncover the causes of prosperity. Step by step, Sabillon tests the principal...
- Author:Bryant, John Hope, Young, AndrewSummary:
John Hope Bryant, successful self-made businessman and founder of the nonprofit Operation HOPE, says business and political leaders are ignoring the one force that could truly re-energize the stalled American economy: the poor. If we...
- Author:Beaudet, Pierre, Haslam, PaulSummary:
Dans un monde en crise multiple, le domaine du développement international a bien changé. Des pays dits « émergents » contestent l’espace qui était réservé auparavant aux pays dits « riches ». Des mouvements populaires d’une ampleur...
- Author:Hanley, PaulSummary:
The sweeping changes that make a 'full world' work-involving dual processes of destruction and reconstruction-will transform global culture, agriculture, and ultimately the human race. Eleven is a call to consciousness. Only an 'ethical...
- Author:Veltmeyer, Henry, Tanimoune, Nasser ArySummary:
Le monde se dirige-t-il vers une crise sans précédent où se juxtaposent difficultés économiques, sociales, écologiques et politiques ? C’est cette question à facettes multiples qu’examine un collectif de chercheurs de divers horizons....
- Author:Gordon, Todd, Webber, Jeffery R.Summary:
Rooted in thousands of pages of Access to Information documents and dozens of interviews carried out throughout Latin America, Blood of Extraction examines the increasing presence of Canadian mining companies in Latin America and the...
- Author:Braun, Will, Loney, ShaunSummary:
First Nations reconciliation has to include rebuilding local economies. Problem solvers such as social enterprises, social entrepreneurs and the small farm movement are demonstrating we can tackle society’s most stubborn problems...
- Author:Ghemawat, PankajSummary:
Reeling from the brutal impacts of the early 21st-century recession, governments and societies everywhere are retrenching and pushing hard for increased protectionism. Global economy expert Pankaj Ghemawat details why, while this...