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A cartoon bear in the style of a 19th-century etched illustration, with a plain white background. The bear, wearing round spectacles, is focused on reading a large, open book. The illustration captures the intricate line work and shading typical of the period, emphasizing the bear's engrossed expression and the detailed depiction of the book, while eliminating any background details to focus solely on the bear and its activity.

Development

  • Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China, by Ezra Vogel

  • Farm to Factory: A Reinterpretation of the Soviet Industrial Revolution, by Robert Allen

  • Journeys Toward Progress: Studies of Economic Policy-making in Latin America, by Albert Hirschman

  • Locked in Place: State-Building and Late Industrialization in India, by Vivek Chibber

  • Markets and States in Tropical Africa: The Political Basis of Agricultural Policies, by Robert Bates

  • States and Power in Africa: Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control, by Jeffrey Herbst

  • The Strategy of Economic Development, by Albert Hirschman

Western Europe

  • Ill Fares the Land, by Tony Judt

  • The Primacy of Politics: Social Democracy and the Making of Europe’s Twentieth Century, by Sheri Berman

  • The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy, by Adam Tooze

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