Paul Collier

Review ? In this masterful blend of personal experience and the best thinking of diverse social scientists, economist Collier analyzes the current breakup of the ?cornerstones of belonging??family, workplace, and nation?and the ensuing frustrations that have opened the way for populists and ideologues. He urges pragmatic policies to manage capitalism (which is ?not working? for many), rebuild t...

In the universally acclaimed and award-winning The Bottom Billion, Paul Collier reveals that fifty failed states--home to the poorest one billion people on Earth--pose the central challenge of the developing world in the twenty-first century. The book shines much-needed light on this group of small nations, largely unnoticed by the industrialized West, that are dropping further and further behind ...

This book explores the idea that the Mediterranean theater of the Second World War was the first truly modern war. It was a highly mobile conflict, in which logistics were a critical and often deciding factor, and from the very beginning a close relationship between the land, sea, and air elements was vital. Victory could not be achieved by either side unless the three services worked in intimate ...

Книга завершает цикл лекций, прочитанных известными зарубежными экономистами в Московском центре Карнеги в 1997-2000 гг. В сборник включены избранные статьи из области политической экономии и прикладной экономики, базирующиеся на исследованиях в различных странах мира, которые и составили основу лекций. На русском языке эти работы публикуются впервые. Издание адресовано экономистам, политикам...