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Leonardo Martinez-Diaz on Carol Lancaster, Foreign Aid: Diplomacy, Development, Domestic Politics
Volume 8, Number 4, 2007, pages 197 - 201
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Jack Goldstone on Gregory Clark, A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World
Volume 8, Number 3, 2007, pages 207 - 225
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Joe Perkins on Peter Diamond & Hannu Vartiainen (editors), Behavioral Economics and Its Applications
Volume 8, Number 3, 2007, pages 201 - 205
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Tim Lankester on Paul Collier, The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
Volume 8, Number 3, 2007, pages 195 - 199
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Graham Bird on Colin I. Bradford Jr. and Johannes F. Linn, editors, Global Governance Reform: Breaking the Stalemate FREE ARTICLE
Volume 8, Number 2, 2007, pages 285 - 287
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Fabian Eser on Joseph Stiglitz et al., Stability with Growth: Macroeconomics, Liberalization and Development FREE ARTICLE
Volume 8, Number 2, 2007, pages 281 - 284
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Tim Lankester on Andrew Glyn, Capitalism Unleashed: Finance, Globalization, and Welfare FREE ARTICLE
Volume 8, Number 2, 2007, pages 277 - 280
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A Non-Definitive Guide to the IMF
A review article
Graham Hacche
Volume 8, Number 2, 2007, pages 97 - 118
The recent book by James R. Vreeland, The International Monetary Fund: Politics of Conditional Lending, is meant to provide “a definitive guide to the organization”. This review article argues that it falls well short of this ambitious aim. It is already somewhat dated. It is almost entirely ... Read more
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Alan Budd on Diane Coyle, The Soulful Science: What Economists Really Do and Why It Matters
Volume 8, Number 1, 2007, pages 255 - 258
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Shalendra D. Sharma on the Sachs–Easterly debate.
Can Massive Foreign Aid Eliminate Extreme Poverty?
Volume 8, Number 1, 2007, pages 245 - 253
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Book Review
Carol Graham on William Easterly, The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good
Volume 7, Number 4, 2006, pages 251 - 253
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Johannes F. Linn on Ngaire Woods, The Globalizers: The IMF, The World Bank, and Their Borrowers
Volume 7, Number 3, 2006, pages 189 - 200
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Book Review
David Bevan on Helping the Poor? The IMF and Low-Income Countries.
Volume 7, Number 1, 2006, pages 189 - 191
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Globalisation, Economic Progress and New Millennium Collectivism
A review article
David Henderson
Volume 5, Number 3, 2004, pages 43 - 73
Three major studies of globalisation and its effects have recently been published.
One of these is the report of an international commission of eminent persons.
The other two are books by leading economists, one by Jagdish Bhagwati and the
other by Martin Wolf. David Henderson comments on all the ... Read more
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Speaking in Tongues
Our economic vernacular
Peter J. Dougherty
Volume 4, Number 1, 2003, pages 7 - 14
Over the past half century, a global economic language—a vernacular—has
emerged. This vernacular, like any such language, has formed the foundation of
much of contemporary economic culture across nations, and has facilitated
communication on economics around the world. Two books have served as
p ... Read more
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Revisiting The Death of Economics
Paul Ormerod
Volume 2, Number 2, 2001, pages 163 - 176
Paul Ormerod achieved notoriety, even opprobrium among orthodox economists,
with the publication in 1994 of his best-selling book The Death of Economics.
Ormerod’s aim was to provide a critique of conventional economics which was
accessible to general readers. He described orthodox economics—with ... Read more
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