Books & Media Reviews
Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization
Updating and expanding on his earlier Plan B and Plan B 2.0, Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization, is Lester Brown’s most urgent call yet for a rapid and all-out restructuring of the world’s economy. Economist and president of Earth Policy Institute, Brown builds an excellent case for the...
Reviewed By: Kristin Saucier
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
Published on the heels of Jeffrey Sachs’ The End of Poverty and William Easterly’s White Man’s Burden, Paul Collier presents another, more balanced, view of the causes of and solutions to poverty in his book, The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can be Done About ...
Reviewed By: Kristin Saucier
The Shock Doctrine: the Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine: the Rise of Disaster Capitalism is very impressive indeed. This is, however, not immediately evident, a sense that is confirmed by Joseph Stiglitz’ review of the book. Even before I read it, I was certain that the Nobel laureate would highlight Klein’s attempt...
Reviewed By: Walden Bello
Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
What can you do when you’ve got no job? Barbara Ehrenreich answers this question in detail in Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream. She tells us how searching for employment is a job in itself, requiring as much time and energy as having a job, but without the compensation o...
Reviewed By: Paula Smith-Vanderslice
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time
This book is an interesting and worthwhile discussion of how to help the world's poorest people. It combines an intellectual history of Sachs and how he came to understand key development factors, an introduction to economic development issues, an explanation of why the poorest people and countries ...
Reviewed By: Lane Vanderslice
The World’s Banker
This is a very entertaining and very informative book about international development. This book is about James Wolfensohn, the President of the World Bank, the World Bank itself, the largest institution charged with assisting the development of poorer countries, and the development challenges the B...
Reviewed By: Lane Vanderslice
Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy
Global Woman describes with firsthand insight the global patterns of relationships among people struggling to survive in the domestic service sector and in the illicit sex trade. The editors are among several others who have authored essays within, including Cheever, Salazar Parrenas, Hondagneu-Sote...
Reviewed By: Paula Smith-Vanderslice
The Politics of Food
Sierra Club Books, San Francisco. 1985. Hardcover. 238 pp.ISBN: 0871568462. Reviewed by Paula Smith-Vanderslice This book may be ordered online through Hunger Notes' bookstore. This landmark book describes the changes in agricultural policy in the 1970s and 1980s in the United States. Solkoff descri...
Reviewed By: Paula Smith-Vanderslice
Scaling Up, Scaling Down: Overcoming Malnutrition in Developing Countries
Thomas J. Marchione, Editor Gordon and Breach. 1999. Hardcover, paperback. ISBN: 9057005476 Reviewed by Steve Hansch This book may be ordered online through Hunger Notes' bookstore. Many non-governmental organization (NGO) projects are first established as "pilot" efforts in order to test and learn ...
Reviewed By: Steve Hansch
World Hunger: 12 Myths
by Frances Moore Lappe, Joseph Collins, and Peter Rosset with Luis Esparza 2nd edition, 1998. New York: Grove Press. pp. 270. ISBN 0-8021-3591-9 Reviewed by Leo Vox This book may be ordered online through Hunger Notes' bookstore. At a time of unprecedented wealth, when almost one-half of all America...
Reviewed By: Leo Vox
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