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Rights and Responsibilities

• “Culture Is Destiny: A Conversation with Lee Kuan Yew” by Fareed Zakaria (Foreign Affairs, March/April 1994)
• “Empowerment for a Culture of Peace and Development” by Aung San Suu Kyi (address to World Commission on Culture and Development, November 21, 1994)
• “Letter from Birmingham Jail” by Martin Luther King Jr. (April 16, 1963)
• The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (General Assembly of the United Nations, December 10, 1948)

Liberty and Social Order

• “The Contrariness of the Mad Farmer” by Wendell Berry in Farming: A Hand Book (Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich)
• “Democracy” by Langston Hughes
• Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
• “Message to the Congress of Angostura, 1819” by Simón Bolívar
• The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
• “Two Concepts of Liberty” by Isaiah Berlin (address before University of Oxford, October 31, 1958)

Equality and the Quest for Social Justice

• The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
• Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
• Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela by Nelson Mandela (Little, Brown and Company)
• “O Yes” by Tillie Olsen in Tell Me a Riddle (Random House)
• The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Community and the Search for Humanity

• The Book of Genesis
• The Four Noble Truths of Buddhism
• “How to Write about Africa” by Binyavanga Wainaina (Granta 92, Winter 2005)
• On Identity by Amin Maalouf (Harvill Panther)
• Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (Houghton Mifflin)
• “Speech upon Receiving the Philadelphia Liberty Medal” by Václav Havel (July 4, 1994) Property and Productivity
• Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen (Anchor)
• Equality and Efficiency: The Big Tradeoff by Arthur M. Okun (The Brookings Institution)
• The Muqaddimah by Ibn Khaldūn (Princeton University Press)
• The Republic by Plato

Leadership Readings

• “Because We Can, We Must” by Bono (commencement address at the University of Pennsylvania, May 17, 2004)
• A Confession by Leo Tolstoy
• Death and the King’s Horseman by Wole Soyinka (W.W. Norton)
• “A Far Cry from Africa” by Derek Walcott in The Norton Anthology of Poetry (W.W. Norton)
• Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap … and Others Don’t by Jim Collins (HarperCollins)
• “Great Expectations” by Bill Gates (commencement address at Harvard University, June 7, 2007)
• Leadership on the Line: Staying Alive Through the Dangers of Leading by Ronald A. Heifetz and Marty Linsky (Harvard Business School Press)
• Leading from Within: Poetry That Sustains the Courage to Lead by Sam M. Intrator and Megan Scribner (Jossey-Bass)
• Letter to Daniel: Dispatches from the Heart by Fergal Keane (Penguin Books)
• The Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking by Roger L. Martin (Harvard Business School Press)
• “Rebellion” by Fyodor Dostoyevsky in The Brothers Karamazov
• Self-Renewal: The Individual and the Innovative Society by John W. Gardner (HarperCollins)
• Servant Leadership: A Journey into the Nature of Legitimate Power and Greatness by Robert K. Greenleaf (Paulist Press)

Fiction

• Black Boy by Richard Wright (HarperPerennial)
• A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry (Vintage International)
• A Grain of Wheat by Ngugi wa Thiong’o (Heinemann)
• Independent People by Halldór Laxness (Vintage International)
• Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie (Penguin Books)
• The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin (Creative Education)
• Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Anchor)
• Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih (NYRB Classics)
• Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh (Mariner Books)
• Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell (Penguin Books)
• The Tempest by William Shakespeare
• Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (Heinemann)
• Train to Pakistan by Khushwant Singh (Grove Press)

Books on Innovative Solutions to Poverty Alleviation

• “A Behavioral-Economics View of Poverty” [pdf] by Marianne Bertrand, Sendhil Mullainathan, and Eldar Shafir (American Economic Review 94, no. 2)
• The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It by Paul Collier (Oxford University Press)
• Capitalism as if the World Matters by Jonathon Porritt and Amory B. Lovins (Earthscan Publications)
• Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen (Anchor)
• The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time by Jeffrey D. Sachs (Penguin Press)
• The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits by C.K. Prahalad (Wharton School Publishing)
• Making Globalization Work by Joseph E. Stiglitz W.W. Norton)
• Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found by Suketu Mehta (Knopf)
• The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else by Hernando de Soto (Basic Books)
• Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor by Paul Farmer (University of California Press)
• Philanthrocapitalism: How the Rich Can Save the World by Matthew Bishop and Michael Green (Bloomsbury Press)
• Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble by Lester R. Brown (W.W. Norton)
• Portfolios of the Poor: How the World’s Poor Live on $2 a Day by Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford, and Orlanda Ruthven (Princeton University Press)
• The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good by Williams Russell Easterly (Penguin Books)
• Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams (Portfolio Hardcover)
• The World’s Banker: A Story of Failed States, Financial Crises, and the Wealth and Poverty of Nations by Sebastian Mallaby (Penguin Press)