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The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It 43 reviews
Paul Collier
Oxford University Press, 2007
Development economics that we can all understand
+ Thought Provoking
+ Excellent Book Should Be Read By Everyone Concerned with Poverty
+ Will stimulate your thinking
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Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage17 reviews
Kathryn Edin, Maria Kefalas
University of California Press, 2007
Fantastic book about a not-so-fantastic phenomenon
+ Sets a high standard for ethnographic research
+ Sheds light on an important subject
+ Promises I can Keep:
+ Promises I Can Keep
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The Lords of Poverty: The Power, Prestige, and Corruption of the International Aid Business 16 reviews
Graham Hancock
Atlantic Monthly Press, 1994
A wonderful account
This sobering account of the truth about aid and the turth about what the 'lords of poverty' are doing to africa is wonderful. Let us first understand the thesis. The new NGOs and those who make their living on aiding 'Africa' are in it for the money and their racist idea that africans cant do ...
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The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order 6 reviews
Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research, 2003
The Road to Serfdom
+ Another brilliant book by Chossudovsky!
+ Free Market Not Free, Ills of the 21st Century, Brilliant
+ A rigged free market system
+ "There are none so blind . . . "
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Less Is More: An Anthology of Ancient & Modern Voices Raised in Praise of Simplicity 5 reviews
Inner Traditions, 1996
Inspiring Words
+ A Gem
+ Like no other simplicity book out there...
+ less is more
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Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life10 reviews
Annette Lareau
University of California Press, 2003
Unequal Childhoods Well Written and Well Researched
+ Very interesting and readable
+ Unequal Childhood Review
+ great service
+ "Unequal Childhoods"
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Poor People13 reviews
William T. Vollmann
Ecco, 2007
Subnormality
+ Poverty: The Deep Cuts
+ Part John McPhee, part Hunter S. Thompson
+ Hard to read? Hardly.
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Promises Not Kept: Poverty and The Betrayal of Third World Development 2 reviews
John Isbister
Kumarian Press, 2006
This is a case where newer is not necessarily better.
Much of the clarity and conciseness that marked the 3rd edition of this work as an excellent introduction to the study of underdevelopment has been lost in the 4th edition. I have used the 3rd edition several times in the past two years as a primary text for a college-level course dealing with ...
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Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism25 reviews
Muhammad Yunus
PublicAffairs, 2008
A reason to hope
+ High on rhetoric, short on action
+ "Creating A World Without Poverty" by Muhammad Yunus
+ Social Business, a concept that can save this world
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Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor (California Series in Public ...21 reviews
Paul Farmer
University of California Press, 2004
Health and survival as human rights
+ This book should change you
+ Review from Branddenotes.blogspot.com
+ Pathologies of Power
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The Manufacture of Evil: Ethics, Evolution and the Industrial System3 reviews
Lionel Tiger
Harpercollins, 1987
Off the beaten track
+ Helps Understand the Lack of Ethics Behind Blackout
+ rational starting point for understanding our human turmoil
I reviewed this book for a science journal not long after its publication. Rated it four out of five. Why come back eighteen years later? Charting the paths followed over the past three decades toward the goal of a `biosocial science' brought me back. The author is the collaborator with Robin ...
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The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy5 reviews
William Julius Wilson
University Of Chicago Press, 1990
One of the 3 most important books written on race and policy
+ still relevant 20 years later
+ Criticized by both left and right; so well worth reading
+ A daunting task at hand.
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Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor17 reviews
Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh
Harvard University Press, 2006
The Geography and Calculus of survival ghetto Style is not mere La Vie Quotidienne Americaine
+ a muddled account of a fascinating subject
+ Interesting
Here in its fullest glory, we get to see both the geography and the calculus of living in the American ghetto: the everyday tradeoffs being made hourly to survive, between "whoring and pimping" or "flipping burgers and cleaning toilets:" hustling pure and simple, from hawking ghettoware to fixing ...
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America1080 reviews
Barbara Ehrenreich
Holt Paperbacks, 2002
Must read for the 'Haves' in this country
+ A Small Peek into the world of minimum wage
+ Good book. Very interesting
I have to admit, I grew up as person of privilege. I am from a large home in suburbia and drove a Mercedes SUV to high school every day. I was always taught to appreciate the things you have, and how lucky I am. Being born into wealth doesn't take talent, it takes luck. Even being born in the ...
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The New Friars: The Emerging Movement Serving the World's Poor10 reviews
Scott A. Bessenecker
IVP Books, 2006
A Challenge to Care for the Poor: No Matter Who You Are
+ Excellent Book on Christian Ministry
+ A painful eye-opener
+ A Call to the Burning Youth of our Generation
+ A Must Read for Christians
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Understanding Poverty (Russell Sage Foundation Books at Harvard University Press)1 review
Harvard University Press, 2002
Great Textbook
This was one of our textbooks for a class on inequality and poverty in a graduate public policy program. Which means, unlike the only other reviewer of this book, I've actually read substantial portions of it. This book talks about poverty from a wide variety of perspectives, from unemployment, ...
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Submerge: Living Deep in a Shallow World: Service, Justice and Contemplation Among the World's Poor21 reviews
John B. Hayes
Regal Books, 2006
A Must Read
+ Inspiring - A call for action from the church
+ Stories from the community of faith
+ challenging and encouraging
+ "Submerge:" a chance to look at yourself
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When Work Disappears : The World of the New Urban Poor18 reviews
William Julius Wilson
Vintage, 1997
This book is an important perspective in urban sociology
+ Analysis is excellent, policy advice needs some work
+ What do jobs have to do with it? Everything.
I was confused to read reviews that tried to refute Wilson's knowledge in this field such as misusing statistical data or ignoring other important issues within the inner-city. It made me wonder if there is a real denial to the problems that exist within the inner-city. Myself, having worked ...
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The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits (Wharton School Publishing ...62 reviews
CK Prahalad
Wharton School Publishing, 2006
Great book for any serious business person
+ Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid
+ Looking at Ethical Profits from the Global Poor
+ Interesting and insightful read, not just for business people
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The Working Poor: Invisible in America74 reviews
David K. Shipler
Vintage, 2005
A Valuable and Affecting Learning Experience
+ The Working Poor
+ The Working Poor: Invisible in America
The poor are very visible in our society. What's far less visible is "The Working Poor", people who have jobs, but who face consistent problems of lower health,low income,no benefits,little education and training, single parenthood,and so on. Pulitzer Prize winning author David Shipler has done a ...
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