Economic Development - Book Reviews

Social innovations that improve the living standards of the poor

MORE THAN GOOD
INTENTIONS: How a
New Economics Is
Helping to Solve
Global Poverty
Dean Karlan & Jacob Appel

New School Economics

Review By Kevin Starr 2

More Than Good Intentions: How a New Economics Is Helping to Solve Global Poverty by Dean Karlan & Jacob Appel

Summer 2011

BUILDING SOCIAL
BUSINESS: The New
Kind of Capitalism
that Serves Humanity’s
Most Pressing Needs
Muhammad Yunus

Hear, Hear for Profits

Review By Rodney Schwartz 5

Building Social Business: The New Kind of Capitalism that Serves Humanity’s Most Pressing Needs by Muhammad Yunus

Fall 2010

THE POWER OF
POSITIVE
DEVIANCE: How
Unlikely Innovators
Solve the World’s
Toughest Problems
Richard Pascale, Jerry
Sternin, & Monique Sternin

Survival of the Deviant

Review By Dean Karlan

The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World’s Toughest Problems by Richard Pascale, Jerry Sternin, & Monique Sternin

Fall 2010

Review: A New Green Order?

Review By Tim Perlstein

The World Bank's Global Environment Facility may be undermined by bureaucracy.

Review: Bootstrap Dreams

Review By Nancy C. Jurik

The emergence of microenterprise development programs, internationally and in the United States.