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Exodus: Immigration and Multiculturalism in the 21st Century by Paul Collier
Category: History
Mass international migration is a response to extreme global inequality, and immigration has a profound impact on the way we live. Yet our views - and those of our politicians - remain caught between two extremes: popular hostility to migrants, tinged by xenophobia and racism; and the view of business a ...Show more
Exodus: Immigration and Multiculturalism in the 21st Century by Paul Collier
Category: Culture
Exodus is an insightful, expert foray into the explosive issue of immigration, from Paul Collier, award-winning economist and author of The Bottom Billion Mass international migration is a response to extreme global inequality, and immigration has a profound impact on the way we live. Yet our views - an ...Show more
Greed Is Dead: Politics After Individualism by Paul Collier & John Kay
Category: Business, Economics and Law
Two of the UK's leading economists call time on selfishness as the engine of prosperityThe idea that people are basically driven by individualism and economic incentives, and that prosperity and good societies come from top-down leadership, has dominated politics for the last thirty years (from some per ...Show more
Greed Is Dead - Politics after Individualism by Paul Collier; John Kay
Category: Business, Economics and Law
The idea that people are basically driven by individualism and economic incentives, and that prosperity and good societies come from top-down leadership, has dominated politics for the last thirty years (from some perspectives, much longer). This book shows that the age of homo economicus and centralisa ...Show more
The Bottom Billion by Paul Collier
Category: History
In the universally acclaimed and award-winning The Bottom Billion, Paul Collier reveals that fifty failed states--home to the poorest one billion people on Earth--pose the central challenge of the developing world in the twenty-first century. The book shines much-needed light on this group of small nati ...Show more
The Bottom Billion : Why the poorest countries are failing and what can be done about it by Paul Collier
Category: History
Global poverty is falling rapidly, but in around fifty failing states, the world's poorest people face a tragedy that is growing inexorably worse. This bottom billion live on less than a dollar a day and while the rest of the world moves steadily forward, this forgotten billion is left further and furth ...Show more
The Future of Capitalism: Facing the New Anxieties by Paul Collier
Category: Business, Economics and Law
Bill Gates's Five Books for Summer Reading 2019 From world-renowned economist Paul Collier, a candid diagnosis of the failures of capitalism and a pragmatic and realistic vision for how we can repair it. Deep new rifts are tearing apart the fabric of the United States and other Western societies: thri ...Show more
The Future of Capitalism - Facing the New Anxieties by Paul Collier
Category: Business
From world-renowned economist Paul Collier, a candid diagnosis of the failures of capitalism and a pragmatic and realistic vision for how we can repair it Deep new rifts are tearing apart the fabric of Britain and other Western societies: thriving cities versus the provinces, the highly skilled elite ve ...Show more
The Future of Capitalism - Facing the New Anxieties by Paul Collier
Category: Business, Economics and Law
Deep new rifts are tearing apart the fabric of Britain and other Western societies: thriving cities versus the provinces, the highly skilled elite versus the less educated, wealthy versus developing countries. As these divides deepen, we have lost the sense of ethical obligation to others that was cruci ...Show more
The Plundered Planet by Paul Collier
Category: Science
Paul Collier's "The Bottom Billion" had a profound impact on our thinking about global poverty. Now, with "The Plundered Planet", he has set himself an even more ambitious goal: to reconcile the immediate needs of the world's burgeoning population with a sustainable environmental future. Is it possible ...Show more