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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

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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
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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

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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
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Africa's Development in Historical Perspective

Edited by Emmanuel Akyeampong, Robert H. Bates, Nathan Nunn, James Robinson ...

This edited volume addresses the root causes of Africa's persistent poverty through an investigation of its longue durée history. It interrogates the African past through disease and demography, institutions and governance, African economies and the impact of the export slave trade, colonialism, Africa in the world economy, and culture's influence on accumulation and investment. Several of the ... Read more

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This edited volume addresses the root causes of Africa's persistent poverty through an investigation of its longue durée history. It interrogates the African past through disease and demography, institutions and governance, African economies and the impact of the export slave trade, colonialism, Africa in the world economy, and culture's influence on accumulation and investment. Several of the
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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

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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,
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Why We Can't Stop Caring.

How To Value What You Feel - And Why It Might Just Change Everything.

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

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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,
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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

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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
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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

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
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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

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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
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Why We Can't Stop Caring

How To Value What You Feel - And Why It Might Just Change Everything

by Robert Bates ...

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Series Audiobook 1 - Greater Intent
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This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.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 ... Read more

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This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.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
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We The People... Are Bad At This

by Robert Bates ...

We want safer streets, affordable homes, good schools, and a government that can occasionally locate the document it requested from us twice. Our desires are understandable. Our ability to judge what will deliver them is less reliable.Every election sells a future. Every policy offers a method. What happens when the promise meets the world—and why do we so often defend the purchase instead of ... Read more

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We want safer streets, affordable homes, good schools, and a government that can occasionally locate the document it requested from us twice. Our desires are understandable. Our ability to judge what will deliver them is less reliable.Every election sells a future. Every policy offers a method. What happens when the promise meets the world—and why do we so often defend the purchase instead of
... Read more
We The People... Are Bad At This

by Robert Bates ...

We want safer streets, affordable homes, good schools, and a government that can occasionally locate the document it requested from us twice. Our desires are understandable. Our ability to judge what will deliver them is less reliable.Every election sells a future. Every policy offers a method. What happens when the promise meets the world-and why do we so often defend the purchase instead of ... Read more

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We want safer streets, affordable homes, good schools, and a government that can occasionally locate the document it requested from us twice. Our desires are understandable. Our ability to judge what will deliver them is less reliable.Every election sells a future. Every policy offers a method. What happens when the promise meets the world-and why do we so often defend the purchase instead of
... Read more
Carneiro

The Concise Evolutionary Essays

Edited by Robert Bates Graber ...

Robert L. Carneiro is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in anthropology in the twentieth century, best known for “A Theory of the Origin of the State” (1970). His efforts throughout his career brought cultural evolutionism from its nineteenth-century origins into the twenty-first century. This book is comprised of thirteen essays, ordered and balanced according to Carneiro’s ... Read more

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Robert L. Carneiro is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in anthropology in the twentieth century, best known for “A Theory of the Origin of the State” (1970). His efforts throughout his career brought cultural evolutionism from its nineteenth-century origins into the twenty-first century. This book is comprised of thirteen essays, ordered and balanced according to Carneiro’s
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