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  • Open-Economy Politics

    The Political Economy of the World Coffee Trade

    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 ... Leer más

    $41.99 USD

  • When Things Fell Apart

    State Failure in Late-Century Africa

    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 ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Markets and States in Tropical Africa

    The Political Basis of Agricultural Policies

    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 ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • When Things Fell Apart

    State Failure in Late-Century Africa

    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 ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • The Development Dilemma

    Security, Prosperity, and a Return to History

    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 ... Leer más

    $28.09 USD

  • Analytic Narratives

    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 ... Leer más

    $55.49 USD

  • Making Aid Work

    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. ... Leer más

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  • Revue des Deux Mondes septembre 2014

    Afrique future

    Series series Revue des Deux Mondes
    L’Afrique est devenue un continent d’avenir, entend-on ici ou là. Elle affiche un appétit sans limite pour les téléphones portables et les nouveaux riches ont adopté tous les tics des classes moyennes mondialisées. De « pré carré » de l’ancienne Europe coloniale, l'Afrique devrait devenir en 2030 membre à part entière de la nouvelle triade (Chine-Inde-Afrique) en lieu et place des États-Unis ... Leer más

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  • Why We Can't Stop Caring

    Greater Intent, #1

    de Robert Bates ...
    Series Libro 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, ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Why We Can't Stop Caring.

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

    de Robert Bates ...
    Series Libro 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, ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Unfettered III

    New Tales By Masters of Fantasy

    Series Libro 3 - Unfettered
    From the editor of the award-winning anthology Unfettered comes the newest installment in the science fiction and fantasy series, Unfettered III.Lacking health insurance when he was diagnosed with cancer, Shawn Speakman asked friends in the science fiction and fantasy writing community to donate short stories he could use to counter mounting medical debt. The result was Unfettered, an anthology ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD

  • K2, The Savage Mountain

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

    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 ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD