*The following is only a selected list of references. A full list of references and suggested readings will be provided at classes.
Acemoglu, A., and J.A. Robinson, 2012. Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty, London: Profile Books.
Adams, W.M., 2019. Green Development (4th edition), London and New York: Routledge.
Aghion, P., C. Antonin, and S. Bunel, 2021. The Power of Creative Destruction: Economic Upheaval and the Wealth of Nations, The Belknap Press.
Amsden, A.H., 2001. The Rise of “the Rest”: Challenges to the West from Late-Industrializing Economies, Oxford University Press.
Banerjee, A.V., and E. Duflo, 2011. Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty, PublicAffairs.
Barro, R.J., and X. Sala-i-Martin, 2004, Economic Growth (Second Edition), The MIT Press.
Dasgupta, P., 2001. Human Well-Being and the Natural Environment, Oxford University Press.
Dasgupta, P., 2007. Economics: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press.
Dasgupta, P., 2021. The Economics of Biodiversity: The Dasgupta Review, London: HM Treasury.
Diamond, J., 1999. Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, W.W. Norton & Company.
Diamond, J., 2005. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, New York: Viking.
Dodds, F. et al., 2017. Negotiating the Sustainable Development Goals: A Transformational Agenda for an Insecure World, Earthscan.
Easterly, W., 2001. The Elusive Quest for Growth, Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press.
Galor, O., 2022. The Journey of Humanity: A History of Wealth and Inequality with Implications for Our Future, Dutton.
Landes, D.S., 1998. The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor, W.W. Norton & Company.
Lorenzini, S., 2019. Global Development: A Cold War History, Princeton University Press.
Maddison, A., 2007. The World Economy, Paris: OECD.
Milanovic, B. 2016. Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization, The Belknap Press.
Ostrom, E., Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action, Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Piketty, T., 2014. Capital in the Twenty-First Century. The Belknap Press.
Ravallion, M., 2016. The Economics of Poverty: History, Measurement and Policy, Oxford University Press.
Rist, G., 2014. The History of Development: From Western Origins to Global Faith (4th Edition), Zed Books.
Rodrik, D., 2011. The Globalization Paradox: Why Global Markets, States, and Democracy Can’t Coexist, Oxford University Press.
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Stiglitz, J., A. Sen, and J.-P. Fitoussi, 2009. Report by the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress.
Todaro, M.P., and S.C. Smith, 2015. Economic Development (12th Edition), Pearson.
World Bank, 1993. The East Asian Miracle: Economic Growth and Public Policy, Oxford University Press.
World Commission on Environment and Development, 1987. Our Common Future, Oxford: Oxford University Press.