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The_Great_Stagnation:_How_America_Ate_All_the_Low-Hanging_Fruit_of_Modern_History,_Got_Sick,_and_Will(Eventually)_Feel_Better_Tyler_Cowen

Economic Development

The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All the Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better

By Tyler Cowen | Reviewed By Timothy Ogden
Spring 2012
 
Philanthropy_in_America_book

Philanthropy

Philanthropy in America: A History

By Olivier Zunz | Reviewed By Lucy Bernholz
Winter 2012
 
CLASS WARFARE: Inside the Fight to Fix America’s Schools Steven Brill

Education

Class Warfare: Inside the Fight to Fix America’s Schools

By Steven Brill | Reviewed By Jonathan Schorr
Winter 2012
 
IMPACT INVESTING: Transforming How We Make Money While Making a Difference Antony Bugg-Levine & Jed Emerson

Impact Investing

Impact Investing: Transforming How We Make Money While Making a Difference

By Antony Bugg-Levine & Jed Emerson | Reviewed By David Chen
Winter 2012
 
GIVING 2.0: Transform Your Giving and Your World Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

Philanthropy

Giving 2.0: Transform Your Giving and Our World

By Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen | Reviewed By Sally Osberg
Winter 2012
 
KaBOOM! How One Man Built a Movement to Save Play Darell Hammond

Nonprofit Management

KaBOOM! How One Man Built a Movement to Save Play

By Darell Hammond | Reviewed By Paul Connolly
Fall 2011
 
POOR ECONOMICS: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty Abhijit Banerjee & Esther Duflo

Economic Development

Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty

By Abhijit Banerjee & Esther Duflo | Reviewed By Timothy Ogden
Fall 2011
 
THE END OF FUNDRAISING: Raise More Money by Selling Your Impact Jason Saul

Fundraising

The End of Fundraising: Raise More Money by Selling Your Impact

By Jason Saul | Reviewed By David Simpson
Fall 2011
 
GLOBAL ACTION NETWORKS: Creating Our Future Together Steve Waddell

Nonprofits

Global Action Networks: Creating Our Future Together

By Steve Waddell | Reviewed By Patrick McNamara
1 | Fall 2011
 
GIVING WELL: The Ethics of Philanthropy Patricia Illingworth, Thomas Pogge, & Leif Wenar

Philanthropy

Giving Well: The Ethics of Philanthropy

By Patricia Illingworth, Thomas Pogge, & Leif Wenar | Reviewed By Chip Pitts
2 | Summer 2011
 

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