Monday, July 09, 2012

Spence, The Next Convergence (2011)

Michael Spence.
The Next Convergence: The Future of Economic Growth in a Multispeed World.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Macmillan, 2011.

Book information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.

This book is an outgrowth of the author's work as chairman of the "Commission on Growth and Development" (Wikipedia; original website, archived; current website at the World Bank). The figues in The Next Convergence are poor black-and-white copies of the original color figues in the Commission's reports. Readers can download the Comission's reports for free from its website(s) (rather than purchasing Spence's book). Videos describing the Commission's findings also available.

Some Michael Spence links:
Michael Spence, Wikipedia
A. Michael Spence, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
Michael Spence, Hoover Institution, Stanford University