Bücher von Paul Collier

Mass international migration is a response to extreme global inequality, and immigration has a profound impact on the way we live. Yet our views - and those of our politicians - remain caught between two extremes: popular hostility to migrants, tinged by xenophobia and racism; and the view of business and liberal elites that 'open doors' are both economically and ethically imperative. With migration set to accelerate, few issues are so urgently in need of dispassionate analysis - and few are more incendiary.Here, world-renowned economist Paul Collier seeks to defuse this explosive subject. Exodus looks at how people from the world's poorest societies struggle to migrate to the rich West: the effects on those left behind and on the host societies, and explores the impulses and thinking that inform Western immigration policy. Migration, he concludes, is a fact, and we urgently need to think clearly about its possibilities and challenges: it is not a question of whether migration is good or bad, but how much is best?Paul Collier is Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies at Oxford University and a former director of Development Research at the World Bank. He is the author of, among others, the award-winning The Bottom Billion and The Plundered Planet.'Exodus is an important book and one I have been waiting to read for many years ... [it is] a work that is humane and hard-headed about one of the greatest issues of our times'David Goodhart, Sunday Times'Paul Collier is one of the world's most thoughtful economists. His books consistently illuminate and provoke. Exodus is no exception'The Economist'Tinged with poignancy ... a humane and sensible voice in a highly toxic debate'Colin Kidd, Guardian'Paul Collier's new book on international migration is magisterial. It offers a sophisticated, comprehensive, incisive, multidisciplinary, well-written balance sheet of the pros and cons of immigration for receiving societies, sending societies, and migrants themselves. For everyone on all sides of this contentious issue, Exodus is a "e;must-read"e;'Robert D. Putnam, Professor of Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University[Praise for Paul Collier's The Plundered Planet]: 'A must-read' Sunday Times'A path-breaking book' George Soros'Paul Collier must be read if one is to begin to understand the most vital contemporary arguments' Bob Geldof

The world-renowned economist offers a ground-breaking new vision for inclusive prosperityLeft behind places can be found in prosperous countries-from South Yorkshire, integral to the industrial revolution and now England's poorest county, to Barranquilla, once Colombia's portal to the Caribbean and now struggling. More alarmingly, the poorest countries in the world are diverging further from the rest of humanity than they were at the start of this century. Why have these places fallen behind? And what can we do about it? World-renowned development economist Paul Collier has spent his life working in neglected communities. In this book he offers his candid diagnosis of why some regions and countries are failing, and a new vision for how they can catch up. Collier lays the blame for widening inequality on stale economic orthodoxies that prioritize market forces to revive left behind regions, and on the arrogant, hands-off and one-size fits all approach of centralized bureaucracies like the UK Treasury. As a result, Collier argues, the UK has become the most unequal and unfair society in the western world. Yet the core message of Left Behind is hopeful: bringing together encouraging case studies of recovery from around the world, Collier shows how renewal is achievable through a combination of collective learning, moral leadership and local agency. With keen insight, he draws lessons from such seemingly disparate fields as behavioural psychology, evolutionary biology and moral philosophy to share a bold, galvanizing vision for a more inclusive, prosperous world.

Wie der radikale Individualismus unsere Gesellschaft zerreißt - und wie die Politik dagegensteuern kannWarum werden die demokratischen Gesellschaften der westlichen Welt in ihrem Kern immer weiter ausgehöhlt? Wie war es möglich, dass unter dem Firnis der Demokratie Extremismus und Populismus gedeihen? Die beiden weltweit renommierten britischen Ökonomen Paul Collier und John Kay zeigen in ihrem leidenschaftlichen Debattenbuch, wie der Ethos des extremen Individualismus unser Gemeinwesen zerrüttet - nicht nur durch das noch immer vorherrschende Ideal kapitalistischer Gewinnmaximierung und das Trugbild des Homo Oeconomicus, sondern vor allem durch die permanente Ausweitung individueller Rechte zulasten des Gemeinwohls. Sie führen vor, wohin die Gier des Einzelnen führen kann - und was politisch geschehen muss, um das Auseinanderbrechen der Gesellschaft zu verhindern.

Der Alarmruf eines weltbekannten Ökonomen - ausgezeichnet mit dem Deutschen WirtschaftsbuchpreisPaul Collier, einer der bedeutendsten Ökonomen unserer Zeit und besonders in Deutschland hochgeschätzt, legt ein Manifest für einen erneuerten Kapitalismus vor. Seine Diagnose: Es geht nicht nur um Verteilung zwischen Arm und Reich, viel gefährlicher ist der neue Riss durch das Fundament unserer Gesellschaft - zwischen den städtischen Metropolen und dem Rest des Landes, zwischen den meist urbanen Eliten und der Mehrheit der Bevölkerung. Eine Ideologie des Einzelnen greift um sich, die auf Selbstbestimmung beharrt, auf Konsum abzielt und sich dabei von der Idee gegenseitiger Verpflichtungen verabschiedet. "Die Rottweiler-Gesellschaft", so Collier, "verliert den Sinn für sozialen Zusammenhalt" - und in dieses Vakuum stoßen Populisten und Ideologen. Schonungslos und leidenschaftlich verurteilt der konservative Ökonom diese neue soziale und kulturelle Kluft. Und er präsentiert ein sehr persönliches Manifest für einen sozialen Kapitalismus, der auf einer neuen Ethik der Gemeinschaft beruht.

Der vielfach preisgekrönte Longseller jetzt in einer neuen AusgabeDie unterste Milliarde - das sind die ärmsten Menschen der Erde, die am weltweit steigenden Wirtschaftswachstum keinen Anteil haben. Ihre Lebenserwartung ist auf fünfzig Jahre gesunken, jedes siebte Kind stirbt vor dem fünften Lebensjahr. Seit Jahrzehnten befinden sich die Ökonomien dieser Länder im freien Fall - ohne Aussicht auf Besserung. In seinem vielfach preisgekrönten Bestseller erklärt Paul Collier, wie es zu dieser krassen Armut gekommen ist und was man gegen sie tun kann.

Loving Lebus' encapsulates the changing styles of furniture over time. With comprehensive notes placing Lebus furniture in context the author has selected the best of the firm's advertisements, catalogue images, photographs and Lebus furniture pieces today. Antique and vintage - Lebus furniture is enjoying a resurgence. We are once again, ¿Loving Lebus¿. Paul has nurtured a passion for all things Lebus. His first book 'Harris Lebus: A Romance with the Furniture Trade' went behind the scenes to look into how Lebus furniture was made. Now the Lebus story is complete - 'Loving Lebus: Looking into Harris Lebus Furniture' is another labour of love.

Collier has made a substantial contribution to current discussions. His evidence-based approach is a worthwhile corrective to the assumptions about democracy that too often tend to dominate when Western policy makers talk about the bottom billion. The New York Times Book Review Before President Obama makes a move he would do well to read Professor Paul Colliers Wars, Guns, and Votes. . . Unlike many academics Collier comes up with very concrete proposals and some ingenious solutions. The Times (London) In Wars, Guns, and Votes, esteemed author Paul Collier offers a groundbreaking, radical look at the worlds most violent, corrupt societies, how they got that way, and what can be done to break the cycle. George Soros calls Paul Collier one of the most original minds in the world today, and Wars, Guns, and Votes, like Colliers previous award-winning book The Bottom Billion, is essential reading for anyone interested in current events, war, poverty, economics, or international business.