Joe Studwell Audiobooks

How Africa Works: fifteen hours on the economics and politics of a continent

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Who is Joe Studwell?

Titles that begin with How and end with Works belong to a particular family of books: confident, systematic, willing to argue that a large and complicated thing runs on rules that can be identified. Joe Studwell arrives in our catalogue with exactly that promise attached to a continent.

Our shelving spreads the book across business and careers, money and finance, and politics and society, which is the right spread for a work of this ambition. Development has never been only an economic question or only a political one, and fifteen hours signals a writer intending to trace the connections rather than assert them. It is a serious length for a serious undertaking.

Joe Studwell in audiobooks

Fifteen hours is the scale of the thing, narrated by Jennifer M. Dixon. Ratings are encouraging so far, though there are not yet many of them, so the reception is still taking shape.

Listen in sections rather than in a rush. A book that builds its argument across a continent accumulates evidence gradually, and the later chapters assume you have kept the earlier ones. Anyone with an interest in development economics, or in how political systems shape markets, will find substantial material here. What we hold is set out just below.