as promised, i've posted the books at http://change.washington.edu/2009/12/change-reading-list/. feel free to add your recommendations in the comments.
there are also other resources, like every video staring hans rosling. http://www.gapminder.org/videos/ On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 14:36, Scott Macklin <smacklin at u.washington.edu> wrote: > Check out this review of Collier's "Bottom Billion": > http://www.agecon.purdue.edu/staff/masters/WAM-ReviewOfCollier-BottomBillion-AJAE2008.pdf > The reviewer, William Masters, positions Collier over/against Sachs and > Easterly. > ? Scott > ----------------- > Scott Macklin > Associate Director ? UW Digital Media Masters Degree > Chief Technology Officer ? UW College of Education > University of Washington > 206-616-3613 > On Dec 8, 2009, at 4:42 PM, joe michiels wrote: > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > change mailing list > change at change.washington.edu > http://changemm.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/change > >
