Book Reviews

Call for book reviews

The Iberoamerican Journal of Development Studies invites international researchers on Development to send book reviews on new books on Development Studies. These books have to meet the editorial line of the Journal on development understood as the social, economic, political, cultural and technological process of change.

The book reviews have to meet the Unesco definitions: being an evaluative comment of a book, not only summarizing it.

Book reviews should not exceed 2000 words.

For further information please contact  ried@unizar.es 

 

Last book reviews: 

Política, emociones y espiritualidad

Written by Natalia Millán Acevedo

Los libros de la Catarata, 2023

Pages: 176

Price: 16,5€

ISBN: 9788413528465

Book reviewed by Ana Belén Benito Sánchez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, España

 

 

Innovación para la transformación social y ambiental. Una propuesta desde las transiciones sociotécnicas.

Edited by Sergio Belda-Miquel, Alejandra Boni (eds.)

Tirant lo Blanch, 2023

Pages: 328

Price: 26,5€

ISBN: 9788411830256

Book reviewed by Clara Furió-Vico, Universitat Politécnica de València, Spain

 

The Green New Deal

written by Jeremy Rifkin

St Martin´s Publishing Group, 2019

Pages: 290

Price: 15€

ISBN: 9788408238133

Book reviewed by Fernando de la Cruz Prego, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, España

 

La esquiva búsqueda de la prosperidad: Una breve historia del pensamiento económico

written by David Castells-Quintana

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2021

Pages: 180

Price: 15,20€

ISBN: 978-84-123249-0-7

Book reviewed by Rogelio Madrueño, Universityy of Bonn, Germany

 

Mission Economy

written by Mariana Mazzucato

Penguin Books Ltd, 2021

Pages: 245

Price: £20.00

ISBN: 9780241419731

Book reviewed by Fernando de la Cruz Prego, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

 

Aid Power and Politics

written by Iliana Olivié y Aitor Pérez (eds)

Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2019

Pages: 284

Price paperback: £34.99

ISBN Paperback: 9781138341272

Book reviewed by Antonio Sianes, Universidad Loyola Andalucía, Spain

 

Evolution or Revolution? Rethinking macroeconimic policy after the great recession

written by Lawrence Summers y Olivier Blanchard (eds)

The MIT Press, Londres, 2019

Pages: 392

Price: £32.00

ISBN: 9780262039369392

Book reviewed by Fernando de la Cruz Prego, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain

 

Digital Labour, Society and the Politics of Sensibilitie

written by Adrian Scribano y Pedro Lisdero (eds)

Palgrave MacMillan; Basingstoke, 2019

Pages: 192

Price: 51,16 €

ISBN: 978-3-030-12306-2

Book reviewed by Maximiliano Korstanje, University of Palermo, Argentina

 

The OECD and the International Political Economy since 1948

written by Matthieu Leimgruber y Matthias Schmelzer (eds)

Palgrave MacMillan; New York, 2018

Pages: 363

Price: $109.00

ISBN: 978-3-319-60242-4

Book reviewed by Ángel L. González-Esteban, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Spain

 

The Hegemony of Growth. The OECD and the Making of the Economic Growth Paradigm

written by Matthias Schmelzer

Cambridge University Press, 2017

Pages: 396

Price Paperback:  £24.99

ISBN: 9781107587557

Double book review made by Fernando Collantes, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain

 

History of the Future of Economic Growth. Historical Roots of Current Debats on Sustainable Degrowht

written by Iris Borowy y Matthias Schmelzer

Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2018

Pages: 200

Price Paperback: £36.99

ISBN: 978113849967

Double book review made by Fernando Collantes, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain

 

Politics and Emotion

written by A. Scribano

Studium Press LLC, 2018

Pages: 240

Price: $49.95

ISBN: 162699109X

Book reviewed by Maximiliano E. Korstanje, University of Palermo, Argentina

 

Poverty and Morality. Religious and Secular Perpsectives

written by William A. Galston y Peter H. Hoffenberg

Cambridge University Press, 2010

Pages: 330

Price:  £ 23.99

ISBN: 9780521127349

Book reviewed by José María Larrú Ramos, University CEU San Pablo, Spain

 

Anatomía de una integración que no fue

written by Daniele Benzi

Ediciones Imago Mundi (Buenos Aires), 2017

Pages: 160

Price:  $190

ISBN: 978-950-793-297-7

Book reviewed by Rafael Domínguez Martín, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain

 

Cooperación internacional para el desarrollo: gobierno, economía y sociedad. Evolución de las políticas y escenarios futuros

written by Carlo Tassara

Ediciones Unisalle (Bogotá), 2016

Pages: 132

Price: $36.00

ISBN: 978-958-5400-04-7

Book reviewed by Sara Prandi, Universidad de Roma La Sapienza, Italia

 

Development Discourse and Global History. From Colonialism to the sustainable development goals

written by Aram Ziai

Routledge, 2016

Pages: 244

Price:  £34.00

ISBN: 9781138735132

Book reviewed by Rogelio Madrueño Aguilar, Ibero-America Institute for Economic Research Göttingen, Germany

 

Latin America and the Asian Giants: Evolving Ties with China and India

written by Riordan Roett y Guadalupe Paz

Brookings Institution Press, 2016

Pages: 326

Price: 32.00$

ISBN: 978-0-8157-2696-8

Book reviewed by Judith Martin Lucas, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain

 

Working through the Past

written by Teri L. Caraway, Maria Lorena Cook, Stephen Crowley

Cornell University Press, 2015

Pages: 276

Price: £79.95

ISBN: 978-0-8014-5351-9

Book reviewed by Maximiliano E. Korstanje, CERS, University of Leeds, United Kingdom

 

On Populist Reason

written by Ernesto Laclau

Verso, UK, 2005

Pages: 276

Price: £ 15,00

ISBN: 9781859846413

Book reviewed by Maximiliano E Korstanje, CERS, University of Leeds, United Kingdom

 

Protección social y lucha contra la pobreza en Brasil, Colombia y Chile ¿Graduarse de los PTC o salir de la pobreza?

written by Carlo Tassara, Antonio Ibarra y Luis H. Vargas Faulbaum

Programa EUROsocial

Pages: 212

ISBN: 978-88-99592-00-4

Book reviewed by Jairo Agudelo Taborda, Universidad del Norte, Colombia

 

The World is Out of Joint: World-Historical Interpretations of Continuing Polarizations

written by Immanuel Wallerstein

Paradigm Publishers

Pages: 208

Price: $119.00

ISBN: 978-1-61205-717-0

Book reviewed by Maximiliano E. Korstanje, University of Palermo (Argentina) y University of Leeds, United Kingdom

 

Development and Social Change. 5thEdition

written by Phillip Mc Michael

SAGE Publishing, Thousand Oaks, 2011

Pages: 383

Price: $88.00

ISBN 978-141299207-7

Book reviewed by Maximiliano E. Korstanje, University of Leeds, United Kingdom

 

The Entrepreneurial State

written by Mariana Mazzucato

Anthem Press, UK, 2014

Pages: 284

Price: £ 13.99

ISBN: 978-84-9056-296-3

Book reviewed by Fernando de la Cruz Prego, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Spain

 

Cooperación para el desarrollo, relaciones internacionales y políticas públicas

written by Carlo Tassara

Ediciones UNAULA, Medellín, Colombia

Pages: 300

Price: $20.04

Book reviewed by Eric Tremolada, Universidad Externado de Colombia

 

Human Development and Capabilities

written by Alejandra Boni & Melanie Walker

Routledge, London, UK, 2013

Pages: 230

Price: £34.99

Book reviewed by María Jesús Martínez Usarralde, Universidad de Valencia, Spain

 

La cooperación Sur-Sur y triangular en América Latina. Políticas afirmativas y prácticas transformadoras

written by Bruno Ayllón & Tahina Ojeda

Editorial Catarata / Instituto Universitario de Desarrollo y Cooperación – Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2013

Pages: 246

Price: 18,00€

ISBN: 978-84-8319-805-6

Book reviewed by Michele Dolcetti, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

 

The Politics of Authoritarian Rule

written by Milan W. Svolik

Cambridge University Press, UK, 2012

Pages: 228

Price: £20.99

Book reviewed by Marcelo Arequipa Azurduy, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain