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  • Open-Economy Politics

    The Political Economy of the World Coffee Trade

    by Robert H. Bates ...
    Coffee is traded in one of the few international markets ever subject to effective political regulation. In Open-Economy Politics, Robert Bates explores the origins, the operations, and the collapse of the International Coffee Organization, an international "government of coffee" that was formed in the 1960s. In so doing, he addresses key issues in international political economy and comparative ... Read more

    $41.79 USD

  • When Things Fell Apart

    State Failure in Late-Century Africa

    by Robert H. Bates ...
    Series series Canto Classics
    In the later decades of the twentieth century, Africa plunged into political chaos. States failed, governments became predators, and citizens took up arms. In When Things Fell Apart, Robert H. Bates advances an exploration of state failure in Africa. In so doing, he not only plumbs the depths of the continent's late-century tragedy, but also the logic of political order, and the foundations of the ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Markets and States in Tropical Africa

    The Political Basis of Agricultural Policies

    by Robert H. Bates ...
    Following independence, most countries in Africa sought to develop, but their governments pursued policies that actually undermined their rural economies. Examining the origins of Africa’s "growth tragedy," Markets and States in Tropical Africa has for decades shaped the thinking of practitioners and scholars alike. Robert H. Bates’s analysis now faces a challenge, however: the revival of economic ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • When Things Fell Apart

    State Failure in Late-Century Africa

    by Robert H. Bates ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    In the later decades of the twentieth century, Africa plunged into political chaos. States failed, governments became predators, and citizens took up arms. In When Things Fell Apart, Robert H. Bates advances an exploration of state failure in Africa. In so doing, he not only plumbs the depths of the continent's late-century tragedy, but also the logic of political order and the foundations of the ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Development Dilemma

    Security, Prosperity, and a Return to History

    by Robert H. Bates ...
    Reassessing the developing world through the lens of Europe's pastToday’s developing nations emerged from the rubble of the Second World War. Only a handful of these countries have subsequently attained a level of prosperity and security comparable to that of the advanced industrial world. The implication is clear: those who study the developing world in order to learn how development can be ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

  • Analytic Narratives

    by Robert H. Bates, Avner Greif, Margaret Levi, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, Barry R. Weingast ...
    Students of comparative politics have long faced a vexing dilemma: how can social scientists draw broad, applicable principles of political order from specific historical examples? In Analytic Narratives, five senior scholars offer a new and ambitious methodological response to this important question. By employing rational-choice and game theory, the authors propose a way of extracting ... Read more

    $55.49 USD

  • Making Aid Work

    by Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee, Alice H. Amsden, Robert H. Bates, Jagdish N. Bhagwati, Angus Deaton ...
    Series series Boston Review Books
    An encouraging account of the potential of foreign aid to reduce poverty and a challenge to all aid organizations to think harder about how they spend their money.With more than a billion people now living on less than a dollar a day, and with eight million dying each year because they are simply too poor to live, most would agree that the problem of global poverty is our greatest moral challenge. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Why We Can't Stop Caring

    Greater Intent, #1

    by Robert Bates ...
    Series Book 1 - Greater Intent
    Why We Can't Stop CaringLooking at What You Value and How It Changes EverythingWhy do some moments stay with us for years while others disappear almost instantly?Why can one conversation change the course of a life while a thousand others leave no trace?Why We Can't Stop Caring explores a simple but powerful idea: our emotional lives already operate like an economy. Every experience, relationship, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • K2, The Savage Mountain

    The Classic True Story Of Disaster And Survival On The World's Second-Highest Mountain

    by Charles Houston, Robert Bates ...
    When eleven climbers died on K2 on August 1, 2008, it was a stark reminder that the world’s second-highest mountain has, for more than a century, been regarded as the most difficult and dangerous of all—for every four people who reach the top, one dies in the attempt. K2, The Savage Mountain tells the dramatic story of the 1953 American expedition, led by Charles S. Houston, when a combination of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • K2, The Savage Mountain

    The Classic True Story Of Disaster And Survival On The World's Second-Highest Mountain

    by Charles Houston, Robert Bates ...
    When eleven climbers died on K2 on August 1, 2008, it was a stark reminder that the world's second-highest mountain has, for more than a century, been regarded as the most difficult and dangerous of all—for every four people who reach the top, one dies in the attempt. K2, The Savage Mountain tells the dramatic story of the 1953 American expedition, led by Charles S. Houston, when a combination of ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Plunging to Leviathan?

    Exploring the World's Political Future

    by Robert Bates Graber ...
    "With his accustomed skill and ingenuity, Graber makes a case for the future unification of the world without the necessity of global war." Robert Carneiro, American Museum of Natural History Can we predict the world's political future? The surprising wealth of research critiqued in this book suggests that earlier assessments of world trends pointed too pessimistically toward the likelihood of a ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • The Consistency of Golf

    Understanding and Controlling Your Variables, A Medical Viewpoint

    by Dr. Robert B. Bates, Heather Bates ...
    This book explains the current medical literature, in layman's terms, concerning the execution of precise, consistent motor function and control. It allows the reader to implement many strategies to attain more consistent control and learn how to handle and fix problems that they have in their game of golf. There are 25 chapters, each designed to teach a valuable lesson concerning the major ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus