Ideas in Development

A Book Review

Edited by Alan Jenkins and Brian Smedley, All Things Being Equal: Instigating Opportunity in an Inequitable Time, is the first publication of a new organization that they run, The Opportunity Agenda.

Oxford University Press’s International Migration: a Very Short Introduction is the place to begin.  The author, Khalid Koser, does an excellent job of tackling the big issues:

French Economist Daniel Cohen

French economist Daniel Cohen’s books on today’s economy deserve wide readership among policy makers, activists and intellectuals.

Hardly a household name or common feature of the American talk show circuit, (or is the proper word “circus”?), economist Daniel Cohen has authored a series of readable, challenging and illuminating works. He is a master of the book-long essay and is big on irony.

Cohen’s core arguments and diverting digressions offer little ideological solace to right or left. Both views are found wanting. Solutions that he proposes tend to draw from each side of the political spectrum.