Paul Collier
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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: thriving cities versus rural counties, 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...
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"Collier has made a substantial contribution to current discussions. His evidence-based approach is a worthwhile corrective to the assumptions about democracy that too often tend to dominate when Western policy makers talk about the bottom billion." -The New York Times Book Review
"Before President Obama makes a move he would do well to read Professor Paul Collier's Wars, Guns, and Votes. . . Unlike many academics Collier comes up with very concrete...
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El éxodo de cada individuo es un triunfo del espíritu, el valor y el ingenio humano sobre las barreras que imponen los ricos. Desde este punto de vista, cualquier política migratoria que no sea la de puertas abiertas parece miserable. No obstante, la propia inmigración también puede tildarse de egoísta: los emprendedores dejan a su suerte a los menos capacitados.
En este ensayo Paul Collier intenta responder a todas las preguntas que plantea...
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Paul Collier sigue la senda trazada en su éxito anterior, El club de la miseria (Turner, 2008), centrándose en las guerras y golpes de estado: su triste recurrencia, sus razones y sus posibles soluciones. En su línea imaginativa, sensata y políticamente incorrecta, Collier argumenta por qué la democracia "al estilo occidental" puede ser una trampa para los países subdesarrollados, y analiza con datos de primera mano la tensa situación política...
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El mundo es cada vez menos pobre en general: la verdadera crisis radica en unos 50 "estados fallidos", que suman unos mil millones de personas: esos mil millones que siempre están en la parte baja de todas las tablas.
Con este libro, Collier arroja nueva luz sobre ese grupo de pequeñas naciones, a las que el mundo occidental deja "por imposibles" y que se enfrentan, en muchos casos, a una situación límite. Señala las trampas que les impiden...
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"In this elegant and impassioned synthesis from one of the world's leading experts on Africa and poverty, economist Paul Collier writes persuasively that although nearly five billion of the world's people are beginning to climb from desperate poverty and to benefit from globalization's reach to developing countries, there is a "bottom billion" of the world's poor whose countries, largely immune to the forces of global economy, are falling farther...
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"Global refugee numbers are at their highest levels since the end of World War II, but the system in place to deal with them, based upon a humanitarian list of imagined "basic needs," has changed little. In Refuge, Paul Collier and Alexander Betts argue that the system fails to provide a comprehensive solution to the fundamental problem, which is how to reintegrate displaced people into society. Western countries deliver food, clothing, and shelter...
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Trailing George Best: The Manchester Haunts of United's Greatest takes a forensic look back at the locations in and around Manchester where George Best worked, rested, partied and played during the Swinging 60s and the dubiously stylish 70s. Despite the questionable fashions, it was the best of times. George Best lived in the city for nearly 15 years and this book chronicles, with numerous images, the places where he lived, the avenues and alleyways...
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The period from 1939 to 1945 saw some of the most devastating and remarkable events in living memory. Labouring beneath a daily burden of fear, sacrifice, deprivation and uncertainty, soldiers and civilians of all nationalities were driven to extremes of selfless loyalty, dogged determination or bitter cruelty by the demands of a world at war. This book tells the stories of the men and women who lived and died during the Second World War, from politicians...