Paul Collier, CBE is a Professor of Economics, Director for the Centre for the Study of African Economies at the University of Oxford and Fellow of St Antony’s College. He is the author of The Plundered Planet; Wars, Guns, and Votes; and The Bottom Billion, winner of Estoril Distinguished Book Prize, the Arthur Ross Book Award, and the Lionel Gelber Prize.
Labour and Poverty in Rural Tanzania: Ujamaa and Rural Development in the United Republic of Tanzania, Oxford University Press, New York, 1991
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It, Oxford University Press, 2007
Wars, Guns and Votes: Democracy in Dangerous Places, Harper, March 2009
The Plundered Planet: Why We Must, and How We Can, Manage Nature for Global Prosperity, Oxford University Press, 2010
Plundered Nations?: Successes and Failures in Natural Resource Extraction co-edited with Anthony J. Venables, Palgrave MacMillan UK, 2011
Exodus: How Migration is Changing Our World, Oxford University Press, October 2013
Refuge: Rethinking Refugee Policy in a Changing World with Alexander Betts, Oxford University Press, September 2017
The Future of Capitalism: Facing the New Anxieties, Allen Lane, April 2018
Greed Is Dead: Politics After Individualism with John Kay, July 2020
Left Behind: A New Economics for Neglected Places, Allen Lane, June 2024
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