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Book Cover for: The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done about It, Paul Collier

The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done about It

Paul Collier
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@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
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Book Cover for: Barrio America: How Latino Immigrants Saved the American City, A. K. Sandoval-Strausz

Barrio America: How Latino Immigrants Saved the American City

A. K. Sandoval-Strausz
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@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
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