Tropical Gangsters: One Man's Experience With Development And Decadence In Deepest Africa

by Robert Klitgaard

Overview

Selected as one of the six best nonfiction books of 1990 by the editors f the New York Times Book Review, this is a compelling and entertaining account of the author's two-and-a-half year adventure in Equatorial Guinea, and his efforts to get this small bankrupt African nation on the path of structural development.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780465087600
Publisher:	Basic Books
Publication date:	07/22/1991
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	296
Sales rank:	1,009,638
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.62(d)
Lexile:	900L (what's this?)

About the Author

Robert Klitgaard is the author of Tropical Gangsters and Choosing Elites. A former associate professor of public policy at Harvard's Kennedy School, he is currently President and University Professor of Claremont Graduate University.