Renowned economist at Oxford University Paul Collier follows up his wide success The Bottom Billion by setting out to reconcile the differences between economists and environmentalists in The Plundered Planet. It's enviably explained (albeit in la lengua de economica) and worth the time for anyone seeking to discover the reality behind the sensational slogans of …
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Book Review: Asian Godfathers
In the days before and after my recent trip to Singapore, a good deal of my downtime was spent poring over Joe Studwell's Asian Godfathers, a book that dutifully takes up the onerous task of explaining the rise of Southeast Asia (looking strictly at Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines) and Hong Kong's ethnic …
Book Review: Nothing to Envy
North Korea has always been an alluring topic to me. It's the mystery, I suppose; that lingering curiosity of wanting to peek into a land frozen in time, barred from the outside world, especially for Americans to say the least. Demick's book Nothing to Envy peels that mystery away and reveals what most already suspected …
Justin Calderón 