thanks trina. i'll put the list on the change website with links.
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 13:44, Trina Gorman <trinajeangorman at yahoo.com> wrote: > Though not specific to health, below is the book review list from Diana > Fletschner?s class titled ?Economics of International Development? (PB AF > 533). There is some overlap as you can see. The attached document contains > all of the books listed so far in case that is helpful. > > ??Dambisa Moyo, ?Dead Aid: Why Aid is Not Working and How There is a Better > Way > for Africa? > ??Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, ?Half The Sky: Turning Oppression into > Opportunity for Women Worldwide? > ??Paul Collier, ?The Bottom Billion: Why The Poorest Countries are Falling > and What Can > Be Done About It? > ??Amartya Sen, ?Development as Freedom? > ??William Easterly, ?The Elusive Quest for Growth? > ??Hernando de Soto, ?The Mystery of Capital? > ??Joseph Stiglitz, ?Globalization and Its Discontents? > ??Jagdish Bhagwati, ?In Defense of Globalization? > ??Joseph Stiglitz, ?Making Globalization Work? > ??Jeffrey Sachs, ?The End of Poverty? > ??Joseph Stiglitz, ?Fair Trade for All? > ??William Easterly, ?The White Man?s Burden? > > ~Trina > ________________________________ > From: Richard Anderson <anderson at cs.washington.edu> > To: joe michiels <jmich at u.washington.edu> > Cc: change - Email Alias <change at cs.washington.edu> > Sent: Tue, December 8, 2009 5:17:38 PM > Subject: Re: [change] Reading List for MBA seminar on global health & > economic development > > Here is a list that I put together a couple of years ago for my PMP course > (where? I assigned book reviews). > > I thought the book by Paul Collier was particualrly good.? If I were to > update the list,? one book I would add is Wisdom of Whores by Elizabeth > Pisani. > > > > Pairing a book by Easterly with a book by Sachs is fun. > > > > > > The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So > Much Ill and So Little Good by William Easterly The Elusive Quest for > Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics by William > Easterly The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time by Jeffrey > Sachs The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can > Be Done About It by Paul Collier A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic > History of the World by Gregory Clark In Spite of the Gods: The Rise of > Modern India by Edward Luce The Fate of Africa: A History of Fifty Years of > Independence by Martin Meredith Infections and Inequalities: The Modern > Plagues by Paul Farmer Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet by > Jeffrey D. Sachs Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the > Future of Capitalism by Muhammad Yunus Out of Poverty: What Works When > Traditional Approaches Fail by Paul Polak Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates > of Human Societies by Jared Diamond Banker To The Poor: Micro-Lending and > the Battle Against World Poverty by Muhammad Yunus The Fortune at the Bottom > of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits by C. K. Prahalad > ________________________________ > From: change-bounces at change.washington.edu > [change-bounces at change.washington.edu] On Behalf Of joe michiels > [jmich at u.washington.edu] > Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 4:42 PM > To: change - Email Alias > Cc: Jonathan Hill > Subject: [change] Reading List for MBA seminar on global health & economic > development > > A peer of mine in the business school is looking for good development/global > health books for a seminar/course for MBAs that's being offered in the > winter. Given that the audience may or may not have a background in the > field, are there particular overview/introductory texts that Change folks > would recommend? > > A few that have come up so far: > Common Wealth - Sachs > End of Poverty - Sachs > Dead Aid - Moyo > White Man's Burden - Easterly > The Blue Sweater - Novogratz > > I'm not sure if students outside of the business school can enroll/attend, > but if anyone's interested I can definitely check. > > -Joe Michiels > Foster School of Business - Class of 2010 > jmich at uw.edu > > > > > _______________________________________________ > change mailing list > change at change.washington.edu > http://changemm.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/change > >
