inequality and the harm it causes
There’s a really fascinating interactive gmaps-overlay for pedestrian deaths for 2000-2009 in the US, showing markers for each of the 47,700 pedestrian deaths (full PDF report here). Each marker contains[…]
Biographies / Personal Stories · Read
It’s no secret that one of my favorite books is Mountains Beyond Mountains, the biography of Dr. Paul Farmer, where Kidder traces Farmer’s adolescent life, formative years in Haiti as[…]
Featured · Read · Structural Violence as main theme · United States
This might be the best book dealing with social issues that I’ve read in a long, long time. It is also the only inequality, poverty, and global health related book,[…]
Development in Poor Countries · International · Read
If you want to understand anything about Haiti, you must read this book. Paul Farmer is brilliant, simply brilliant, and this book takes us for an informative trip back in[…]
Featured · International · Read · War / Conflict
I stumbled onto this book serendipitously, browsing on Amazon for books related to books related to some book on El Salvador that I’d enjoyed. From a literary standpoint it’s not[…]
Development in Poor Countries · International · Read
This is a brilliant but slim work from Robert Chambers. Occasionally I stumble upon a text nearly as old as I am, sitting on someone’s shelf, out of print for[…]
This is a very helpful book when it comes to thinking about health, and how each society views it. Often in the United States we say “health” and we really[…]
Hans Rosling, the Swedish public health stats guru behind the ever-so-brilliant Gapminder, has a new TEDtalk on washing machines! When we were living in Ghana, I honestly didn’t pine for[…]
An interesting article from The Economist detailing the screwed up propositions that revised California’s educational funding, then revised the revision, then revised the revision to the revision. Hans Rosling published[…]
Development in Poor Countries · Read
I’ve previously written about The White Man’s Burden, by William Easterly, and I consider this to be its companion volume. Easterly and Sachs are essentially competing economists, with Sachs playing[…]