Elena Botella Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done about It
Paul Collier
@louise_seamster The Bottom Billion by Paul Collier is kind of in that lane, there’s a chapter on the idea that countries with a lot of natural resources create “spoils” for coups and become less likely to maintain democracies that might promote growth. Caveat that I read it a long time ago
Paperback, 2008
$18.98$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Barrio America: How Latino Immigrants Saved the American City
A. K. Sandoval-Strausz
@danielrmorrison @louise_seamster Barrio America by A.K. Sandoval-Strausz is great on white supremacy, planning, redlining, and highways/transit in Dallas
Hardcover, 2019
$32.00$16.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book