Stolen Future
The conditions faced by young people in the United States highlight the impact of growing inequality.
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Economic Development - Book Reviews
Social innovations that improve the living standards of the poor
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Past Isn’t Always Prologue
For policy makers today, earlier efforts to promote local community organizing yield relatively few lessons.
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A More Perfect Union?
New ideas on how to empower US workers involve breaking free of current labor law.
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The Trouble With Top-Down
The limits of technocratic, one-size-fits-all approaches to economic development have become all too evident.
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Philanthropy and Inequality
The disruptive force of the "new philanthropy" holds the promise of helping to reduce inequality. But will it actually do so?
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The Emerging Market Era
A "reverse innovation" guru provides anecdotes and advice about how to succeed in emerging markets.
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The Race vs. the Stagnation
Two economists offer opposite explanations about why job growth in the United States and other developed economies remains extremely weak.
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The Race vs. the Stagnation
Two economists offer opposite explanations about why job growth in the United States and other developed economies remains extremely weak.
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Radically Small Thinking
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty by Abhijit Banerjee & Esther Duflo