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Required Texts
Acemoglu, Daron and James Robinson. 2012. Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty. New York: Crown Business.

Banerjee, Abhijit, and Esther Duflo. 2011. Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty. New York: PublicAffairs.

Kamkwamba, William. 2010. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind. New York: Harper Press.

Nussbaum, Martha. 2011. Creating Capabilities: The Human Development Approach. Cambridge, MA and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.

Strunk Jr., William and E.B. White. 2000. The Elements of Style. 4th ed. New York: Allyn and Bacon.

Students are also expected to read daily from a respected newspaper, such as The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Washington Post, or The Wall Street Journal.

Recommended Texts
Sen, Amartya. 1999. Development as Freedom. New York: Anchor Books.

Picketty, Thomas. 2014. Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Trans. Arthur Goldhammer 2014. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press.

For Further Reading
Easterly, William. 2007. The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good. New York: Penguin.

Nussbaum, Martha. 2000. Women and Human Development: the Capabilities Approach. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.

Sen, Amartya. 2013. An Uncertain Glory: India and its Contradictions. New Jersey: Princeton University Press.

Sangtin Writers and Richa Nagar. 2006. Playing with Fire: Feminist Thought and Activism Through Seven Lives in India. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Stiglitz, Joseph E. 2013. The Price of Inequality: How Today’s Divided Society Endangers Our Future. New York: W.W. Norton Company.

United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD). 2010. Combating Poverty and Inequality: Structural Change, Social Policy and Politics. Manuscript. Geneva: UNRISD. http://www.unrisd.org/unrisd/website/document.nsf/%28httpPublications%29/B4728ABBDF504837C12577D2005C1EF0?OpenDocument [Not in bookstore.] (Referred to on Syllabus as “UNRISD.”)

The World Bank. 2012. Gender Equality and Development: World Development Report 2012. Washington, D.C: The World Bank. (Available as a full PDF on OWL-Space Course site under Resources tab.)

The World Bank. 2014. Voice and Agency: Empowering Women and Girls for Shared Prosperity. Washington, DC: The World Bank. (Available as a full PDF on OWL-Space Course site under Resources tab.)

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