Paul Collier
Né(e): April 23, 1949 – Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
Paul Collier is a British economist and public policy scholar known for work on poverty, African development, migration, and fragile states. A professor at the University of Oxford, he wrote The Bottom Billion and Exodus, influential books that helped shape debate on development policy, conflict, and globalization.
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Exodus
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Economist Paul Collier examines global migration's complex impacts on host countries, migrants, and their homelands in this thought-provoking analysis.
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Bottom Billion
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Exodus
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Future of Capitalism
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Bottom Billion
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"Paul Collier is one of the world's most thoughtful economists"
— The Economist
"Paul Collier must be read if one is to begin to understand the most vital contemporary arguments"
— Bob Geldof
"In this brilliant, passionate, angry book, Paul Collier makes a completely convincing case for hope"
— Rebecca Henderson
"Paul Collier deploys passion, pragmatism and good economics in equal measure to chart an alternative to the divisions tearing apart so many western countries"
— Mervyn King
"Paul Collier's new book on international migration is magisterial"
— Robert D. Putnam
"Paul Collier, a distinguished economist, ventures onto the terrain of ethics to explain what's gone wrong with capitalism and how to fix it"
— Michael J. Sandel
"Paul Collier has written another brilliant, must-read book for anyone interested in human progress"
— Dambisa Moyo
"Paul Collier has written with great insight about the prospects of the bottom billion"
— Michael Spence
"Paul Collier brings his astonishing range of global experiences and interdisciplinary knowledge to forge a guidebook for catching up"
— Angus Deaton
"These times are in desperate need of Paul Collier's insights"
— George Akerlof
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