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Economic Development

Recommended Books

William Easterly. The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics. MIT Press, 2001 [Amazon/SLU]. An accessible book discussing modern growth theory. You need to read this if you hold to the 19th century view that development is a matter of international capital flows.

Paul Collier. The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About it. Oxford University Press, 2007 [Amazon/SLU]. A very readable book which distinguishes between the problems of most developing countries and those failed states at the bottom with a combined population of about a billion.

P. J. O'Rourke. Eat the Rich. Grove/Atlantic, 1999 [Amazon/SLU]. A very funny book. Despite claiming complete ignorance of economics, O'Rourke asks the right questions and gets the answers about 90% correct -- better than most development scholars.

Rohinton Mistry. A Fine Balance. Vintage, 2001 [Amazon/SLU]. A novel set in 1970s India. No economics but communicates the sense of powerlessness of the poor. A Booker Prize finalist and Oprah Book Club selection.

Pietra Rivoli. The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade. Wiley, 2005 [Amazon/SLU]. A very accessible, straightforward way to learn about the economics of globalization without the usual polemics.

Some Favorite Development Economists

William Easterly (NYU)

Dani Rodrik (Harvard)

Daron Acemoglu (MIT)

Marcel Fafchamps (Oxford)

Christopher B. Barrett (Cornell)

Deepak Lal (UCLA)

Other Web Links

The Gapminder World 2006

Human Development Report Data (UNDP)

Human Development in Animation (UNDP)

WDI Online: World Development Indicators (World Bank)

Millennium Development Goals (World Bank)

Benchmarking Business Regulations (World Bank)

Social Capital for Development (World Bank)

Social Capital and Ethnicity (World Bank)

SLU Library's Selected Economic Resources Page

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Economic Development

	William Easterly. The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics. MIT Press, 2001 [Amazon/SLU]. An accessible book discussing modern growth theory. You need to read this if you hold to the 19th century view that development is a matter of international capital flows.
	Paul Collier. The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About it. Oxford University Press, 2007 [Amazon/SLU]. A very readable book which distinguishes between the problems of most developing countries and those failed states at the bottom with a combined population of about a billion.
	P. J. O'Rourke. Eat the Rich. Grove/Atlantic, 1999 [Amazon/SLU]. A very funny book. Despite claiming complete ignorance of economics, O'Rourke asks the right questions and gets the answers about 90% correct -- better than most development scholars.
	Rohinton Mistry. A Fine Balance. Vintage, 2001 [Amazon/SLU]. A novel set in 1970s India. No economics but communicates the sense of powerlessness of the poor. A Booker Prize finalist and Oprah Book Club selection.
	Pietra Rivoli. The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade. Wiley, 2005 [Amazon/SLU]. A very accessible, straightforward way to learn about the economics of globalization without the usual polemics.