Tropical Gangsters: One Man's Experience With Development And Decadence In Deepest Africa
By (Author) Robert Klitgaard
Basic Books
Basic Books
22nd July 1991
United States
General
Non Fiction
African history
330.9671803
Paperback
296
Width 153mm, Height 227mm, Spine 18mm
428g
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 authors 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.
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.