Further books, articles, and essays for your perusal:
- The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time — Jeffrey Sachs
- The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good — William Easterly
- The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists’ Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics — William Easterly
- Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa — Dambisa Moyo
- Development as Freedom — Amartya Sen
- Amartya Sen — Peter Singer
- Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide — Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
- The Life You Can Save — Peter Singer
- The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700–2100: Europe, America and the Third World — Robert Fogel
- Witchcraft, Weather and Economic Growth in Renaissance Europe — Emily Oster
- The Illusion of Sustainability — Michael Kremer and Edward Miguel
- Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet and Threatens Our Lives — Michael Specter
- Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness — Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein
- Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet — Jeffrey Sachs
- Population: The First Essay — Thomas Malthus
- Population Growth and Technological Change: One Million B.C. to 1990 — Michael Kremer
- Famine in South Asia: Political Economy of Mass Starvation — Mohiuddin Alamgir
- Markets and Famines — Martin Ravallion
- The Poor and Their Money: Microfinance from a Twenty-First-Century Consumer’s Perspective — Stuart Rutherford
- The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid — The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid
- Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India Are Reshaping Their Futures—and Yours — Tarun Khanna
- Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy — Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson
- Why Nations Fail — Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson
- The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It — Paul Collier
- Wars, Guns, and Votes: Democracy in Dangerous Places ( — Paul Collier
- Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq’s Green Zone — Rajiv Chandrasekaram