Skip to main content
Search Button
Canada Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 17 results for “k william easter”
Skip side bar filters

  • Violent Saviors

    The West's Conquest of the Rest

    by William Easterly ...
    A celebrated economist argues that economic development is not really development unless everyone has the right to consent to their own progress**“An innovative and exhilarating read.”—Angus Deaton, winner of the Nobel Prize in EconomicsA Financial Times Best Book of the Year**For centuries, the developed Western world has exploited the less-developed “Rest” in the name of progress, conquering the ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Tyranny of Experts

    Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor

    by William Easterly ...
    In this "bracingly iconoclastic” book (New York Times Book Review), a renowned economics scholar breaks down the fight to end global poverty and the rights that poor individuals have had taken away for generations.In The Tyranny of Experts, renowned economist William Easterly examines our failing efforts to fight global poverty, and argues that the "expert approved" top-down approach to ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The White Man's Burden

    Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good

    by William Easterly ...
    **From one of the world’s best-known development economists—an excoriating attack on the tragic hubris of the West’s efforts to improve the lot of the so-called developing world."Brilliant at diagnosing the failings of Western intervention in the Third World." —BusinessWeek**In his previous book, The Elusive Quest for Growth, William Easterly criticized the utter ineffectiveness of Western ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Irrigation Investment, Technology, and Management Strategies for Development

    Edited by K. William Easter ...
    This book reports on a study that assessed the effectiveness of irrigation technologies and management practices in the Third World. Using a management model, it offers new perspectives on the evaluation of investment priorities and the benefits of irrigation projects in developing countries. ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Water Policy in Minnesota

    Issues, Incentives, and Action

    Edited by K. William Easter, Jim Perry ...
    Series series RFF Press Water Policy Series
    Minnesota has a unique role in U.S. water policy. Hydrologically, it is a state with more than 12,000 lakes, an inland sea, and the headwaters of three major river systems: the St Lawrence, the Red River of the North, and the Mississippi. Institutionally, Minnesota is also unique. All U.S. states use Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) approaches to addressing impaired waters. Every TMDL requires a ... Read more

    $76.94 CAD

  • Water Markets for the 21st Century

    What Have We Learned?

    Edited by K. William Easter, Qiuqiong Huang ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book evaluates the history, the present and the future of water markets on 5 continents, beginning with the institutional underpinnings of water markets and factors influencing transaction costs. The book examines markets in seven countries and three different U.S. states, ranging from village-level water markets in Oman to basin wide formal water markets in Australia's Murray-Darling River ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • The Elusive Quest for Growth

    Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics

    by William R. Easterly ...
    EXPLORING THE DETRIMENTS OF ECONOMIC GROWTH: Why have economists’ attempts to help poorer countries failed?“It is impossible to convey the depth and range of The Elusive Quest for Growth.” —The Wall Street JournalSince the end of World War II, economists have tried to figure out how poor countries in the tropics could attain standards of living approaching those of countries in Europe and North ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Interbasin Transfers of Water

    Economic Issues and Impacts

    by Charles W. Howe ...
    Series series RFF Water Policy Set
    Howe and Easter analyze existing evidence on direct and indirect benefits attributable to water, as well as the potential costs of interbasin transfers, and examine feasibility of alternatives.Originally published in 1971 ... Read more

    $107.99 CAD

  • Always Another Mountain, Living With Cystic Fibrosis

    by Benjamin Easterday, Sharidan Williams-Sotelo, Randy Jon Morgan, David Foster, Rick Tuber ...
    David Foster learned at a young age he was different and when the medical world was ready to throw him away he found salvation and love of his life in climbing the Sierra Nevada Mountain trails in California. Packed with light humor and easy conversations that entertain; Always Another Mountain is a Dedication and Last Wish project of David's whimsical and entertaining life. The book is set up ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • The Economics of Water Quality

    by Naomi Zeitouni ...
    Series series The International Library of Environmental Economics and Policy
    This volume brings together a number of prominent economic studies all of which deal with key water quality issues. The studies focus on the economic aspects of water quality including identifying the polluters' actions and incentives, designing and comparing control mechanisms, analyzing the costs and benefits of water quality programmes, and finally managing transboundary water quality. They all ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD

  • Culture Matters in Russia—and Everywhere

    Backdrop for the Russia-Ukraine Conflict

    by Lawrence Harrison, Evgeny Yasin, Oscar Árias Sánchez, Miguel Basáñez, Marita Carballo, Valery Chirkov, Oleg Chirkunov, Daniel Etounga-Manguelle, James Fox0, Mariano Grondona1, Geert Hofstede2, Ronald Inglehart3, Josef Joffe4, Jerome Kagan5, Irina Karatsuba6, Rob Kleinbaum7, Borris Knorre8, Andrei Konchalovsky9, Deepak Lal0, Nadezhda Lebedeva1, Vladimir Magun2, Matteo Marini3, Eric Maskin4, Richard Nisbett5, Douglass North6, Rachel Okunubi7, Fernando Reimers8, Maksim Rudnev9, Reese Schonfeld0, Shalom Schwartz1, Maria Snegovaya2, Guido Tabellini3, Katherine Taylor4, Natalya Tikhonova5, Pervez Hoodbhoy6, William Easterly7, Richard Lamm8, Tu Weiming9 ...
    This book pulls together experts in the fields of economics and Russian culture, all participants in the Samuel P. Huntington Memorial Symposium on Culture, Cultural Change and Economic Development, a follow-up to the 1999 Cultural Values and Human Progress Symposium at Harvard University. As the sequel to the 2001 volume Culture Matters, it discusses modernization, democratization, economic, and ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • Africa's Turn?

    by Edward Miguel ...
    Series series Boston Review Books
    Signs of hope in sub-Saharan Africa: modest but steady economic growth and the spread of democracy.By the end of the twentieth century, sub-Saharan Africa had experienced twenty-five years of economic and political disaster. While “economic miracles” in China and India raised hundreds of millions from extreme poverty, Africa seemed to have been overtaken by violent conflict and mass destitution, ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD