• Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson, Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy
• Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way To Fight Global Poverty
• Jagdish Bhagwati, In Defence of Globalisation
• Ester Boserup, Woman's Role in Economic Development
• Deborah Brautigam, The Dragon's Gift: The Real Story of China in Africa
• Ha-Joon Chang, Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective
• Paul Collier, The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
• William Easterly, The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts To Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good
• Arturo Escobar, Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World
• Peter Evans, Embedded Autonomy: States and Industrial Transformation
• Paul Farmer, Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor
• James Ferguson, The Anti-politics Machine: "Development", Depoliticisation and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho
• Joseph Hanlon, Armando Barrientos, David Hulme, Just Give Money To the Poor: the Development Revolution from the Global South
• Jeffrey Herbst, States and Power in Africa: Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control
• Timothy Mitchell, Rule of Experts: Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity
• Dambisa Moyo, Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is Another Way for Africa
• Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time
• CK Prahalad, The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits
• Adam Przeworski, Michael Alvarez, Jose Antonio Cheibub, Fernando Limongi, Democracy and Development: Political Institutions and Well-Being in the World, 1950-1990
• Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
• Jeffrey Sachs, The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time (Done)
• James Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes To Improve the human Condition Have Failed
• Amartya Sen, Development as Freedom
• Joseph Stiglitz, Globalisation and Its Discontents