Global Issues - Book Reviews

Review: Building Wealth

Review By Marc J. Lane

Building Wealth: The New Asset-Based Approach to Solving Social and Economic Problems

Summer 2006

Review: A Gift of Freedom

Review By Bruce Sievers

How the John M. Olin Foundation Changed America.

Spring 2006

Review: Random Family

Review By Anitra Lynn Waller

Waller offers an intimate exposé of crime and drugs in the inner city.

Review: Civic Revolutionaries

Review By Dawn Ibis

Cross-sector collaboration is the key to community revitalization.

Review: Trustees of Culture

Review By Frances Philipps

Are elite boards getting out of touch with their organizations' true purpose?

Business

Review: Walking the Talk

Review By David Gal

Corporate social responsibility can pay big dividends.

Review: A New Green Order?

Review By Tim Perlstein

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

Review: A Company of Citizens

Review By Heidi Natkin

The answers to a motivated workforce may lie in ancient Greece.

Review: Despite Good Intentions

Review By David Suarez

International development aid should be dissolved, argues Dichter.

The New Economy of Nature

Review By Carl Palmer

The authors describe a new approach to environmental conservation that takes market realities into account, rather than relying on philanthropy and altruism.

Spring 2003